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2 |
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December |
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1837 |
|
Dr
Joseph
Bell,
inspiration
for
Sir
Arthur
Conan
Doyle's
characted
"Sherlock
Holmes",
born.
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2 |
|
December |
|
1848 |
|
Mary
Slessor,
missionary,
born
at
Gilcomston,
Aberdeen.
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3 |
|
December |
|
1894 |
|
Robert
Louis
Stevenson
died
in
Samoa.
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4 |
|
December |
|
1649 |
|
Image
©
AA
Young
William
Drummond,
poet
of
Hawthornden,
Midlothian,
died.
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5 |
|
December |
|
1560 |
|
Francis
II
of
France,
husband
of
Mary
Queen
of
Scots,
dies,
leading
to
her
return,
the
following
year,
to
Scotland.
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6 |
|
December |
|
1745 |
|
Prince
Charles
Edward
Stuart's
Jacobite
Army
began
their
retreat
north
from
Derby.
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7 |
|
December |
|
521 |
|
St
Columba
born.
|
|
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7 |
|
December |
|
1545 |
|
Henry
Stuart,
Lord
Darnley,
born.
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7 |
|
December |
|
1784 |
|
Allan
Cunningham,
Scottish
Poet,
born.
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8 |
|
December |
|
1542 |
|
Mary
Queen
of
Scots,
born
at
Linlithgow.
|
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9 |
|
December |
|
1165 |
|
Malcolm
IV
"The
Maiden"
died.
|
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9 |
|
December |
|
1578 |
|
Robert
Kerr,
1st
Earl
of
Ancram
died
after
this
date
in
poverty,
in
the
Netherlands.
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10 |
|
December |
|
1540 |
|
Act
of
Annexation
of
the
lordships,
lands
and
castles,
with
pertinents
of
Orkney
and
Shetland.
Reference
Records
of
the
Parliaments
of
Scotland
See
also
The
Annexation
of
the
earldom
of
Orkney
and
lordship
of
Shetland
to
the
Crown,
20th
February
1472
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10 |
|
December |
|
1747 |
|
Duncan
Forbes
of
Culloden
died.
Scots
statesman,
and
loyal
to
the
Government,
he
persuaded
many
not
to
join
the
Jacobite
cause
in
1745
and
also
sought
mercy
for
the
Jacobites
after
their
defeat.
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10 |
|
December |
|
1941 |
|
The
sinking
of
HMS
PRINCE
OF
WALES
and
HMS
REPULSE
in
1941
by
Japanese
aircraft
off
the
Malayan
coast
in
the
events
leading
to
the
fall
of
Singapore.
HMS
PRINCE
OF
WALES
had
a
crew
of
1,612
and
20
officers,
280
sailors
and
27
marines
were
lost.
The
dead
included
Admiral
Sir
Tom
Phillips,
CinC
of
the
Eastern
Fleet,
and
PRINCE
OF
WALES
commanding
officer,
Capt
John
C.
Leach.
.HMS
REPULSE
was
built
on
the
Clyde.
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