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1560: The burgh of Glasgow is now represented in the Parliament of Scotland; 1570: Andrew Melville rejuvenates the university; 1574: Plague hits the city again; c1576: The council mill is rebuilt; 1579: The city's cathedral is saved from demolition by craftsmen threatening to riot; 1581: Glasgow pays 66% of upper Clyde customs tax; 1584: Plague
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.
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 ...
David I becomes king and introduces the feudal system of landholding to much of Scotland. 1128: David I founds Holyrood Abbey at Edinburgh. 1136: Glasgow Cathedral (St Kentigern's, begun 1123) consecrated in the presence of David I. 1153: Somerled sacks Glasgow and its vicinity. 1156
Glasgow. The Uneasy Peace. Religious Tension in Modern Scotland, 1819-1914 (1987) Gorevan, John. Glasgow Pubs and Publicans Facebook; Gorevan, John. Up & Doon the Gallowgate; MacGregor George. The history of Glasgow: from the earliest period to the present time (1881) 547 pages online edition; Massie, Allan. Glasgow: A History (1989), short ...
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2022) D. ... Timeline of Glasgow history; T. Timeline of prehistoric Scotland This page was ...
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Although Scottish Gaelic had been spoken in most of Scotland at one time or another, by the time of large-scale migrations to North America – the eighteenth century – it had only managed to survive in the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. Unlike other ethnic groups in Scotland, Scottish Highlanders preferred to migrate in communities ...