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1610: The General Assembly approves the restoration of diocesan episcopacy in Scotland; 1611: Glasgow becomes a royal burgh, with a population of about 7600; 1615: John Ogilvy, a Scottish Jesuit priest, is hanged for saying Mass [22] 1621: Glasgow pays 3%-10% of Scottish customs duties; 1625: The first quay is built at Broomielaw; 1626: The ...
The Darien scheme is probably the best known of all Scotland's colonial endeavours, and the most disastrous. In 1695, an act was passed in the Parliament of Scotland establishing The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies and was given royal assent by the Scottish representative of King William II of Scotland (and III of England ...
The Empire Exhibition, Scotland is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. 1941: The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March). 1943: Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and Islands. 1945: First Scottish Nationalist MP is elected. 1947
The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History 1984, essays by historians and selected related primary sources. Cheney, Jr., ed., John L. North Carolina Government, 1585–1979: A Narrative and Statistical History (Raleigh: Department of the Secretary of State, 1981)
From fighting to integrate North Carolina’s schools to suing the state over laws that affected Black voters, the state chapter of the NAACP has remained a key player in civil rights activism.
The Ulster Scots, known as the Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) in North America, were descended from people originally from (mainly Lowland) Scotland, as well as the north of England and other regions, who colonized the province of Ulster in Ireland in the seventeenth century. After several generations, their descendants left for America, and ...
1729 – Proprietary rights to South and North Carolina are surrendered. ca. 1730 – For the first time, the majority of slaves in Chesapeake, Virginia were born in the New World. [citation needed] 1732 – The Province of South Carolina attempts to ban the import of slaves. The Province of Georgia is founded.
At the union of 1707, the Kingdom of England had about five times the population of Scotland and about 36 times as much wealth, but there were five Scottish universities (St. Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen's King's College and Marischal College) against two in the Kingdom of England.