Kilt Wearers Calendar

**Pour1Malt** · 25th May 06, 04:34 AM

July 1 --Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of kilts & tartan, the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons; including bagpipes.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 5 --Dolly the Sheep, cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. Born.

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 21 --Hamish Bicknell “The Kilted Legend” 59 Kilts and Counting, born (1936)

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 1 --Celtic Holiday, Lughnasadh (Lammas)

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 23 --Wallace Day (William Wallace is executed, 1305)

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

September 9 --The Battle of Flodden. (1513)

September 11 --Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297)

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)

September 21 –-Celtic Holiday, Mabon (Autumn/Fall Equinox)

October 2 --William Ramsay, who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, born

October 31 –Celtic Holiday, Samhain (All Hallows Eve)

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 21 - Robert Brown discoverer of Brownian Motion, born.

December 21 –-Celtic Holiday, Yule (Winter Solstice)

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

**Robin** · 25th May 06, 04:51 AM

Don't forget "Old" Tom Morris!

Born June 16, 1821, in St. Andrews, Scotland

**Colin** · 25th May 06, 08:38 AM

Great list. Only two questions. Tartan Day (April 6th) was celebrated in Canada starting in 1993(?) can this be reflected? Secondly, who is going to input these all into the Xmarks Calender so we have a record of them?

**Pour1Malt** · 25th May 06, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by Colin

Great list. Only two questions. Tartan Day (April 6th) was celebrated in Canada starting in 1993(?) can this be reflected? Secondly, who is going to input these all into the Xmarks Calender so we have a record of them?

Colin- aye , ai saw ya posted thot info (Canada, 1993) earlier...

but in updatin the calendar.... ai (probably daftly) wasnae sure if you were saying April 6, 1933... arr some other date in 1993... sae ai left it oot....

if it is April 6, 1993... than ai'll add it in version 3.... :rolleyes: