1660 |
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Charles II returns to the throne
but never returns to Scotland.
Declaration
of Breda |
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1663 |
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Non-conforming ministers expelled Start of
conventicles and “Killing Time” |
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1666 |
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Covenanters (A Scottish
Presbyterian who supported either of two agreements, the National
Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643,
intended to defend and extend Presbyterianism) defeated
at Battle of Rullion Green |
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1671 |
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Rob Roy MacGregor is born at Glengyle at the
head of Loch Katrine |
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1679 |
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Covenanters defeated at Bothwell Bridge by a
royalist force |
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1680 |
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James, Duke of Albany future James VII of Scotland
and II of England), Charles II’s younger Roman Catholic
brother, was in charge in Scotland and repression restarted.
The Cameronians kept up the struggle and despite a defeat at
Airds Moss they kept fighting, this led to atrocities. The Royalist
leaders, especially Claverhouse ('Bluidy Clavers') and Sir George
Mackenzie ('Bluidy Mackenzie') were the worst in what became
known as the 'Killing Time'. |
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1682 |
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Advocates’ Library ( now National Library)
founded |
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1689 |
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James VII deposed and replaced by William II
and Mary II First Jacobite (from the Latin “Jacobus”,
“James”) Rising
Battle of the Pass of Killiecrankie |
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1692 |
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Massacre of Glencoe |
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1694 |
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William Paterson founded Bank of England |
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1698 |
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First expedition to Darien |
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1700 |
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Fire sweeps through centre of Edinburgh |
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1707 |
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Treaty of Union between Scotland and England
- the “Union of the Parliaments” |
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1708 |
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Second Jacobite Rising (aborted) follows Treaty
of Union |
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1715 |
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Third Jacobite Rising follows coronation of George
Elector of Hanover |
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1719 |
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Fourth Jacobite Rising ends at Battle of Glenshiel |
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1725 |
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General Wade arrives in Scotland and begins to
build military roads |
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1727 |
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Last Scottish witch burned at Dornoch |
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1734 |
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John Cockburn experiments with new agricultural
regime at Ormiston Rob Roy MacGregor dies at his home in
Balquhidder Glen |
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1745/46 |
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Fifth - and Last - Jacobite Rising ends at Battle
of Culloden |
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1756 |
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Charlestown, Fife, established by Charles Bruce,
the 5th Earl of Elgin as Scotland’s first complete self-sufficient
industrial complex to exploit the large deposits of limestone
and coal to produce lime for the building industry and agriculture |
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1759 |
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Carron Ironworks founded |
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1764 |
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James Watt perfects his steam engine in Glasgow |
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1767 |
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Foundation stone laid for Edinburgh’s New
Town |
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1776 |
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Adam Smith publishes “Wealth of Nations”
David Hume, philosopher, dies |
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1778 |
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First Scottish cotton mills built at Penicuik
and Rothesay for in the later 18th century cotton was the first
choice, not linen |
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1788 |
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Bonnie Prince Charlie dies in Rome |
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1790 |
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Forth & Clyde canal opens |
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1792 |
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Revolt in Strathoykel against sheep-farms
Robert Adam, architect, dies |
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1796 |
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Robert Burns dies in Dumfries |
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1799 |
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Serfdom banned in coalmines and saltworks |
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1807 |
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First of the “Highland Clearances”
begin on Sutherland Estates |
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1815 |
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Royal Scots Greys lead Britain to victory at
Battle of Waterloo |
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1817 |
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First issue of The Scotsman published |
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1820 |
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“Radical War” ends at “Battle
of Bonnymuir” |
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1822 |
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George IV first monarch to visit Scotland in
171 years. Caledonian Canal linking Inverness to Fort William
opened |
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1828 |
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J.B. Neilson invents “hot blast”
iron-smelting process at the Clyde Ironworks |
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1831 |
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Scotland’s first steam railway service
runs between Glasgow and Garnkirk |
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1832 |
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60.000 Scotsmen given vote Cholera kills
40.000
Sir Walter Scott dies |
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1842 |
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Glasgow-Edinburgh train service launched |
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1843 |
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Disruption in Church of Scotland leads to formation
of Free Church |
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1847 |
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Widespread potato famine results in “Highland
Clearances” |
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1851 |
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Formal registration of births, marriages and
deaths introduced |
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1853 |
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First Scots settle in New Zealand |
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1859 |
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The new water supply to Glasgow from Loch Katrine
is opened |
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1867 |
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Scottish Society of Women’s Suffrage established
in Edinburgh |
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1868 |
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Charles Rennie Macintosh born in Glasgow |
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1876 |
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) invents the
telephone |
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1877 |
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207 people killed at Blantyre Colliery - Scotland’s
worst mining disaster |
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1879 |
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James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, dies Tay
Bridge collapses |
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1885 |
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Scottish Office created |
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1886 |
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Glasgow Underground opens |
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1888 |
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Scottish Labour Party formed |
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1890 |
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Forth Rail Bridge opened |
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1892 |
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Scottish Trades Union Congress formed |
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1906 |
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James Keir Hardie froms British Labour Party |
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1909 |
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Rosyth Naval Dockyard built |
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1910 |
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Scotland’s first cinema opens in Glasgow |
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1913 |
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Suffragettes
burn Whitekirk |
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1914 |
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World War I begins |
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1916 |
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6000 Scots killed on first day of Battle of the
Somme |
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1918 |
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World War I ends.
Women
given the vote |
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1919 |
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German Fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow Forestry
Commission set up |
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1924 |
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Ramsay MacDonald becomes first Labour Prime Minister.
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1926 |
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General Strike
By that time 400000 workers, one in seven, were idle |
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1927 |
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Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle
opened by Prince of Wales |
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1928 |
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
First female Scots MP elected |
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1929 |
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one in five people were idle |
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1930 |
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36 islanders evacuated from St. Kilda |
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1931 |
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National Trust for Scotland and Scottish Youth
Hostel Association founded |
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1934 |
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Scottish National Party formed |
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1936 |
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Saltire Society founded |
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1939 |
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World War II begins HMS Royal Oak sunk in
Scapa Flow- 833 drown |
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1941 |
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Clydebank bombed - 1200 killed. |
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1943 |
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Aberdeen bombed - 43 killed |
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1945 |
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World War II ends First SNP MB elected
Scottish Tourist Board created |
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1946 |
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New Towns Act passed |
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1947 |
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Prestwick Airport opens
Coal and electricity industries nationalised
First Edinburgh International Festival held |
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1948 |
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National Health Service created Railways
nationalised |
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1949 |
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Iron and steel nationalised |
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1950 |
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First performance of Military Tattoo on Edinburgh
Castle Esplanade Stone of Destiny illegally removed by students
from Westminster Abbey and taken to Arbroath |
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1957 |
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Ravenscraig Steelworks built |
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1959 |
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BMC’s Bathgate factory opens |
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1960 |
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Rootes’ Linwood factory opens |
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1961 |
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US nuclear submarine base opens in Holy Loch |
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1962 |
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Last person hanged in Scotland at Craiginches
Gaol, Aberdeen |
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1964 |
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Forth Road Bridge opens, so too Hunterston “A”
nuclear power station |
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1965 |
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Highlands & Islands Development Board established.
Invergordon aluminium plant opens |
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1968 |
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Church of Scotland admits women ministers |
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1969 |
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The Waverly Line between Carlisle and Edinburgh
closes |
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1974 |
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Sullom Voe oil terminal opens |
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1979 |
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Devolution referendum fails |
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1983 |
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Bathgate victory closes |
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1984 |
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Miners’ Strike |
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1988 |
|
Piper Alpha oil platform explosion kills 226
Pan-Am plane blown up over Lockerbie - 270 killed |
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1989 |
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Introduction of Poll Tax leads to angry protests |
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1992 |
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Ravenscraig closes US pulls out of Holy Loch |
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1995 |
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Skye Bridge opens |
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1996 |
|
Stone of Destiny returns to Scotland - officially
this time |
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1997 |
|
Referendum over the creation of a Scottish Parliament
(74,3% Yes : 25,7% No).
“Dolly the sheep”,
world’s first clone, born at Roslin |
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1999 |
|
Scottish Parliament sits for first time in 288
years |
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2000 |
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Donald Dewar (Labour Party) Scotland’s
first First Minister, dies |
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2002 |
|
Scottish Parliament passes the Community Care
and Health (Scotland) Bill introducing free health care for
the elderly |
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2003 |
|
Second elections to the Scottish Parliament |
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2007 |
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Third elections to the Scottish Parliament 3rd
of May, 2007
Alex Salmond (SNP) was elected as First Minister |
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