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Events This Week in Scottish History
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1617 |
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John
Napier
of
Merchiston,
inventor
of
logarithms,
died.
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April |
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1849 |
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The
Clydesdale
Joint
Stock
Agricultural
&
Commercial
Company
was
established
"for
the
purpose
of
acquiring
land
in
some
suitable
locality
in
the
United
States
of
America,
in
which
to
establish
by
means
of
the
united
capital
and
industry
of
its
partners,
a
comfortable
home
for
themselves
and
families,
where
they
may
follow
a
more
simple,
useful
and
rational
mode
of
life
than
is
found
practicable
in
the
complex
and
competition
state
of
society,
from
which
they
have
become
anxious
to
retire.”
The
members
were
John
Jack,
James
Love,
John
Craig,
John
McAndrews,
James
Shanks,
James
Gardner,
Robertson
Sinclair,
John
Davis
and
John
Campbell."
See
also
Alexander
Gardner
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4 |
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April |
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1840 |
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Reverend
John
Campbell,
Missionary,
died
in
South
Africa. |
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5 |
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April |
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1820 |
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The
Striking
Workers
of
the
Radical
War
of
1820
on
their
way
to
the
Carron
Iron
Works
were
attacked
by
Hussars
at
Bonnymuir.
The
leaders
were
subsequently
executed
and
many
others
convicted
and
transported
to
Australia
as
criminals.
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6 |
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April |
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1320 |
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The
Declaration
of
Arbroath
was
drawn
up
at
Arbroath
Abbey.
It
was
a
letter,
in
Latin,
from
the
Scottish
nobility
to
Pope
John
XXII
asserting
Scotland's
independence
and
warning
of
their
right
to
dethrone
King
Robert
I
should
he
"give
up
what
he
has
begun,
and
agree
to
make
us
or
our
kingdom
subject
to
the
King
of
England
or
the
English."
The
Declaration
of
Arbroath
is
said
to
have
influenced
the
US
Declaration
of
Independence
in
1776.
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6 |
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April
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1773 |
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James
Mill,
the
Scottish
philosopher
and
historian
was
born.
His
son
was
the
philosopher,
John
Stuart
Mill.
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7 |
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April |
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1718 |
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Dr
Hugh
Blair,
born
in
Edinburgh. |
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8 |
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April |
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1783 |
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John
Claudius
Loudon,
landscape
gardener
and
architect,
born
at
Cambuslang,
Lanarkshire.
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9 |
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April |
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1747 |
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Simon
Fraser,
11th
Lord
Lovat,
beheaded
at
Tower
Hill
for
his
part
in
the
Jacobite
Rising
of
1745,
at
the
age
of
80.
On
the
scaffold
he
encouraged
his
nervous
executioner
with
the
words
"Cheer
up
thy
heart
man,
I
am
not
afraid.
Why
should
you
be?
"
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10 |
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April |
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1512 |
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James
V
born.
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10 |
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April |
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1840 |
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Alexander
Nasmyth,
Scots
painter,
died
in
Edinburgh. |
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11 |
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April |
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1839 |
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John
Galt,
novelist,
died
Greenock,
Renfrewshire.
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12 |
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April |
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1606 |
UF |
The
first
Union
Flag
adopted
as
the
Flag
of
Scotland,
England
(and
Wales)
initially
a
Royal
flag
and
was
first
known
as
"the
British
Flag"
or
the
"Flag
of
Britain".
(The
current
version
which
incorporated
Ireland
dates
from
1801).
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12 |
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April |
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1941 |
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Charles
Murray,
North
East
poet,
died
at
Banchory,
Aberdeenshire.
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April |
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1951 |
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The
Stone
taken
from
the
Coronation
chair
in
1950
by
Scottish
Students
was
returned
to
Westminster,
after
having
been
found
at
Arbroath
Abbey.
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