Scottish Photographic History

A Short History of Scotland

c.450mil BC-Northern Highland & Grampian Mountains are formed.

	c 4000 BC-Neolithic farmers arrive, building burial chambers &stone circles.
	c2,000 BC-Bronze Age, stone circles built in Orkneys & Lewis.
	c500 BC-Iron Age tribes build their stone towers, the Brochs.
	123 -Roman Emperor Hadrian starts building his border wall.
	563-Columba arrives on Iona to spread Christianity
	600-First recorded sighting of the 'Loch Ness Monster'.
	c900- Vikings arrive in Orkney Islands.
	1005- MacBeth last of Scotland's Gaelic Kings is born.

	1018-Kingdom of Scotland is born through merger.
	1136-Building starts on Melrose Abbey.

	1174-Stirling Castle given to English for release of Scottish King William.
	1250-Saint Margaret is canonized by Innocent IV
	1270-William Wallace born.
	1306-Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland.
	1314-Bruce defeats English at Bannochburn.
	1320-Declaration of Arbroath asserting Scotland's independence.
	1323-Crathe Castle, with its beautiful gardens.
	1401-Building starts on Dunrobin Castle
	1410-St Andrews university founded.
	1446-Rosslyn Chapel, construction commenced by William St Clair, Prince of Orkney

	1450-Glasgow declared a City.
	1501-James IV starts building Falkland Palace
	1513-Scots defeated at Flodden by English.
	1542-Birth of Mary Queen of Scots.
	1559-John Knox denounces Roman Catholic church as idolatry.

	1571-Siege of Edinburgh Castle.
	1587-Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
	1597-Culross Palace built.
	1603-Elizabeth of England dies, James VI of Scotland Becomes James I of England
	1671-Birth of Rob Roy Macgregor
	1676-Alexander Selkirk "Robinson Crusoe" born.
	1685-Covenanter prisoners held at Dunnottar Castle

	1692-Massacre of MacDonalds at Glencoe.
	1701-William Kidd (Captain Kidd) Infamous pirate hanged.

	1720-Birth of Charles Edward Stuart,"Bonnie Prince Charlie".
	1723-Adam Smith father of economics born at Kirkcaldy.
	1736-James Watt Developer of the steam engine born.
	1745-Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland proclaims himself King.
	1746-Prince Charlie escapes to Skye, Scotland's most famous island
	1746-Jacobite army defeated at Culloden, last battle fought on British soil.
	1746- Flora MacDonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety.

	1759-Robert Burns born.
	1771-Sir Walter Scott born.

	1813-Birth of David Livingstone.
	1835-Birth of Andrew Carnegie.
	1847- Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the telephone born..
	1847- Balfour castle erected (now one of Scotland's luxury hotels)
	1865-Joseph Lister pioneered the use of antiseptics

1850-Robert Louis Stevenson born, author of "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island".

	1852-Prince Albert buys Balmoral Castle.
	1856-Birth of James Keir Hardie a founder of the British Labour Party.
	1870-William Wallace monument completed at Stirling
	1879-Dundee Tay Rail Bridge Disaster.

1890-Forth Rail Bridge opened

	1925-John Logie Baird demonstrated first Television.
	1928-Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
	1930-St Kilda evacuated

1997-Referendum 'yes' vote for Scottish Parliament.