|
|
16 |
|
April |
|
1746 |
|
Battle
of
Culloden.
Fought
on
Drummossie
Moor
near
Culloden
House,
not
an
English
Scottish
Battle
as
often
portrayed
but
the
last
battle
for
the
Jacobite
(exiled
House
of
Stuart)
Cause,
with
Scots
on
both
sides.
No
Regiment
has
this
as
a
Battle
Honour.
|
|
|
|
16 |
|
April |
|
1953 |
|
HM
The
Queen
launches
the
Royal
Yacht
"BRITANNIA"
at
the
John
Brown
&
Co
Shipyard,
Clydebank.
|
|
|
|
17 |
|
April |
|
1850 |
|
James
Thom,
the
Ayrshire
Sculptor,
died
in
New
York.
Ref:
The
Every
Day
Book
Of
History
And
Chronology:
Embracing
The
Anniversaries
Of
Memorable
Persons
And
Events
In
Every
Period
And
State
Of
The
World,
From
The
Creation
To
The
Present
Time
(1858)
Munsell,
Joel
ISBN:
0548583358
|
|
|
|
18 |
|
April |
|
1916 |
|
Wing
Commander
Harbourne
Mackay
Stephen
CBE,
DSO,
DFC*,
RAF
retd,
born
in
Elgin.
As
a
Spitfire
Pilot
in
the
Battle
of
Britain
he
destroyed
20
enemy
aircraft. |
|
|
|
19 |
|
April |
|
1390 |
|
Robert
II,
son
of
Robert
the
Bruce's
daughter,
Marjorie,
died.
|
|
|
|
20 |
|
April |
|
1851 |
|
Young
Tom
Morris,
golfer,
born,
St
Andrews.
|
|
|
|
20 |
|
April |
|
1918 |
|
Mora
Agnes
Dickson,
author
and
artist,
and
later
founder
with
husband
Alec
of
Voluntary
Service
Overseas,
born
in
Glasgow.
Ref:
International
Who's
Who
of
Authors
and
Writers
2004
By
Elizabeth
Sleeman,
ISBN:1857431790
|
|
|
|
21 |
|
April |
|
1671 |
|
John
Law,
economist,
Scottish
monetary
reformer
and
originator
of
the
“Mississippi
scheme”
for
the
development
of
French
territories
in
America,
baptised.
|
|
|
|
21 |
|
April |
|
1838 |
|
John
Muir,
America's
most
famous
and
influential
naturalist
and
conservationist,
and
founder
of
the
Sierra
Club,
born
in
Dunbar,
East
Lothian.
|
|
|
|
21 |
|
April |
|
1926 |
|
The
future
HM
Queen
Elizabeth
born.
|
|
|
|
22 |
|
April |
|
1765 |
|
Rev
James
Grahame,
poet
and
clergyman,
born
in
Glasgow.
|
|
|
|
23 |
|
April |
|
1124 |
|
Alexander
I
died
at
Stirling
Castle.
|
|
|
|
23 |
|
April |
|
1661 |
|
Charles
II
crowned
at
Westminster
Abbey.
|
|
|
|
23 |
|
April |
|
1781 |
|
General
James Abercromby (also
Abercombie) commander-in-chief of British Forces in North America in the
French and Indian War, died.
|
|
|
|
24 |
|
April |
|
1558 |
|
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
married
the
French
Dauphin,
François
de
Valois,
at
Notre
Dame
in
Paris.
|
|
|
|
24 |
|
April |
|
1633 |
|
Privy
Council
issues
a
Warrant
to
Sir
David
Hepburn
to
raise
a
regiment
of
1,200
men
to
fight
in
French
Service.
Hepburn's
Regiment
later
became
The
Royal
Scots,
the
oldest
regiment
in
the
British
Army
and
served
for
373
Years
before
being
merged
into
the
new
Royal
Regiment
of
Scotland
in
2006.
|
|
|
|
24 |
|
April |
|
1882 |
|
Air
Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding,
Commander of Fighter Command during the
Battle
of Britain, born
Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway.
|
|
|
|
25 |
|
April |
|
1058 |
|
Malcolm
Canmore
crowned
at
Scone.
|
|
|
|
25 |
|
April |
|
1710 |
|
James
Ferguson,
astronomer,
fellow
of
the
Royal
Society,
born.
|
|
|
|
25 |
|
April |
|
1915 |
|
ANZAC Day which commemorates the landing of Australian and New Zealand
(Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops at Ari Burnu on the
Gallipoli peninsula in 1915 marking
the emergence of the young nations on the world stage and establishing a
reputation for courage and determination that stands to this day. The main
British Landings were at Cape Helles and Sedd-El-Bahr. The Lancashire Fusiliers
famously won "six VCs before breakfast" at W Beach on April 25, and lost 164 men
that day.
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