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Scotland's History  

The Scots as a nation have the reputation of being fiercely independent and a thorn in England's flesh! Nobody wants hostile neighbours but Scotland's history shows a continual struggle to maintain independence. The Romans tried to occupy the country for a few years, found it too difficult and gave up. England spent centuries trying to take possession and eventually they had to accept a Scottish king on their throne. Intrepid younger sons, black sheep of families and political exiles left Scotland to make their mark on the world.

John Logie Baird - television
Alexander Bell - telephone
Alexander Fleming - penicillin
James Watt - the steam engine
John Paul Jones - founder the American Navy
Patrick Gordon - General to Tsar Peter the Great
James Keith - Field-Marshal to Frederick the Great
Robert and James Adam - architects
Thomas Telford - bridges, roads and canals
Robert Stevenson's - lighthouses
Andrew Carnegie - philanthropist
British Prime Ministers - Gladstone, Ramsay
John Macarthur - Australia's agricultural system

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History of Scotland - Prehistoric Beginnings
The Romans: 82AD-4th century
The Coming of Christianity: 397-7th century
The Birth of Scotland 843-1034
The Norman Influence in IIth century
King David I: 1124-53
The Auld Alliance in12th century
Scotland's Wars of Independence C13th
William Wallace c1274 - 1305
King Robert the Bruce 1306-1329
Struggle for Power in 14th century
The Stewarts in Scotland 14th and 15th centuries
King James I 1406-1437
The Douglases in the 15th Century
King James III of Scotland 1460-1488
James IV and the Scottish Renaissance 1488-1513
King James V 1513 - 1542
Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-1587
James VI of Scotland and James I of England
Charles Edward Stewart 1625 - 1688
The Treaty of Union 1707
The Jacobite Rebellion 1708-1746
After Culloden 1746 - 1860
The Scottish Enlightenment 18th and 19th centuries
Scotland in the 20th and 21st Centuries

 

 
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