dates in Scotland

**sailortats** · 12th December 12, 09:48 AM

Several months ago someone here listed a very comprehensive list of dates of important events in Scottish history. It covered the entire year.
I had copied this list but have since lost it. Would the person who sent it originally please do so again or direct me to where it is on this site? I tried searching but cannot find anything.

**Domehead** · 12th December 12, 10:14 AM

I am interested in this as well.
Thank you in advance.

**BCAC** · 13th December 12, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by sailortats

Several months ago someone here listed a very comprehensive list of dates of important events in Scottish history. It covered the entire year.
I had copied this list but have since lost it. Would the person who sent it originally please do so again or direct me to where it is on this site? I tried searching but cannot find anything.

What about this?

Kilt Wearers Calendar

January 1- New Years Day. (You should be singing “Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns as the New Year begins.)

January 11 -- Sir John A. Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada born in Glasgow (1815)

January 17 --Author Compton Mackenzie (Whisky Galore etc) born. (1883)

January 25 --Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard, born Alloway. (1759) Traditional night of Burns Supper.

February 5 --John Boyd Dunlop, who patented the first practical pneumatic tyre, born Ayrshire. (1846)

February 7 --Robert the Bruce captured Dumfries. (1313)

February 10 --Robert the Bruce murdered John ‘The Red’ Comyn. (1306)

March 3 -- Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh. (1847)

March 4 -- Jim (or Jimmy) Clark OBE, Formula One (F1) racing driver born in Kilmany. (1936)

March 17 -- Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III which recognized Scotland's independence, ending the 30 years of Wars of Independence. (1328)

March 17 -- St Patrick’s Day

March 27 -- King Robert I ("The Bruce") crowned at Scone. (1306)

March 27 -- David Coulthard, Grand Prix racing driver born in Twynholm. (1971)

April 6 -- Anniversary of the Writing of the Declaration of Arbroath - "For we fight not for glory nor for riches nor for honour, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life". (1320)

April 6 -- Celebration of Tartan Day approved by the US Senate, in recognition of the monumental achievements and invaluable contributions made by Scottish Americans. (1998)

May 5 -- No Pants Day

May 9 -- Sir J M Barrie, author of "Peter Pan" born (1860)

May 22 -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author Sherlock Holmes born in Edinburgh. (1859)

June 7 -- Robert the Bruce died, Cardross Castle.( 1329)

June 7 -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Designer, Architect, born in Glasgow (1868)

June 7 -- James Young Simpson, Pioneer in use of anaesthetics, in surgery and midwifery, born in Bathgate (1811)

June 11 -- Jackie Stewart, OBE, Formula One Racer, Born in Dumbartonshire on 11 June 1939

June 24 -- Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II at Battle of Bannockburn. (1314)

July 1 -- Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of kilts & tartan, the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons; including bagpipes. (1782)

July 6 -- John Paul Jones, hero of the US Navy, born Kirkbean, Dumfries. (1747)

July 11-- Robert the Bruce born. (1274)

July 21 -- Robert Burns dies in Dumfries. (1796)

July 21 -- Allan Pinkerton, creator of US Secret Service, born in Glasgow (1819)

July 31 -- "Kilmarnock Edition" of the poems of Robert Burns "Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" first published. (1786)

August 1 -- Proscription Act introduced, banning kilts, tartan, bagpipes (banned as a weapon of war), the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons. (1747)

August 4 -- Birth of the entertainer Sir Harry Lauder. (1870)

August 6 -- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, born at Lochfield (1881)

August 11 -- Author and poet C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) born at Langholm, Dumfriesshire. (1892)

August 13 -- John Logie Baird, inventor of the first television, born in Helensburgh (1888)

August 15 -- Macbeth killed in battle by Malcolm at Lumphanan, near Aberdeen. (1057)

August 15 -- Sir Walter Scott, Writer and poet, born Edinburgh. (1771)

August 25 --Actor Sir Sean Connery born. (1930)

September 11 --Referendum on Devolution, which approved the creation of a new Scottish Parliament by a substantial majority. (1997)

September 21 --John McAdam, inventor of "tar macadam" road surface, born, (1756)

November 5 --Guy Fawkes Day

November 13 --Robert Louis Stevenson, author “Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island" born in Edinburgh (1850)

November 24 --Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born. (1942)

November 25 -- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist born in Dunfermline. (1835)

November 30 --Stone of Destiny, stolen from Scone by King Edward I of England in 1296, returned to Scotland and installed in Edinburgh Castle. (1996)

November 30 --St Andrew's Day

December 4 --Essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle, best known for his "French Revolution" born in Ecclefechan. (1795)

December 26 --Boxing Day, Traditional Day in Scotland when the Landlords gave the leftovers from their Christmas Supper in a box, to the Scots peasants.

December 31 --Hogmanay

**EagleJCS** · 13th December 12, 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by BCAC

What about this?

Kilt Wearers Calendar
July 1 -- Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of kilts & tartan, the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons; including bagpipes. (1782)

August 1 -- Proscription Act introduced, banning kilts, tartan, bagpipes (banned as a weapon of war), the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons. (1747)

As a piper I feel I must chime in on this one...

The Act of Proscription did NOT ban bagpipes - it didn't even mention them. If you want to read the full act, it can be found here.

Only one minor English court ever described the Great Highland Bagpipe as an 'instrument of war' (not a 'weapon'), and that was in the conviction of a piper in the Jacobite army.

From Wiki Answers:
"Like most myths it is drawn from several sources. Principally the trial of a Jacobite piper James Reid, the Proscription act of 1747 which banned the use of arms (and warlike weapons and the wearing of tartan amongst other things) in the Highlands and a work published in the aftermath of Culloden by Donald MacDonald decrying the pipes being "laid aside" and "music lost".

James Reid the piper in question was captured at Carlisle which the Jacobites had garrisoned with Ogilvy's and the Manchester Regiment as they retreated north from Derby. He was tried along with 70 other rebels and sentenced to death with 21 others. The jury recommended leniency being a piper but the judge decided otherwise. He was executed for high treason for taking part in the rebellion not for playing the pipes. During his trial his defense was he was a piper so hadn't born arms, the judge said in sentencing that any person who joined with others 'though they did not bear arms, were yet guilty of high treason' but more famously for the myth that 'no regiment ever marched without musical instruments such as trumpets drums and the like....a highland regiment never marched without a piper...and therefore his bagpipe in the eyes of the law was an instrument of war' and he was convicted of taking part in the rebellion. He was the only Jacobite piper executed. Following Culloden only five Pipers were prosecuted for being rebels. One was transported (pleading guilty to rebellion), one executed as above, two were pardoned and one there is no information on. The successful defenses proves the playing of the pipes was never taken into account as binding by other courts. It should be noted that any decision handed down by an English Court would not be binding on a Scottish court as Scots law is completely separate."

**madmacs** · 13th December 12, 05:36 AM

26 July is free? You might want to give that to R W Thompson who actually invented the pneumatic tyre... Birthdate we're not sure about, but he was baptised then in 1822.

http://www.bouncing-balls.com/serendipity/tyres.htm