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Events This Week in Scottish History
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August |
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1545 |
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Andrew
Melville
born
Baldovie.
Scholar,
theologian
and
religious
reformer,
his
reputation
brought
scholars
from
the
Europe
to
study
at
Glasgow
and
St
Andrews.
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August |
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1714
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Death
of
Queen
Anne;
George
I,
Elector
of
Hanover
becomes
King.
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August |
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1747 |
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Act
of
Proscription
of
Tartan
that
followed
the
1745
Rising.
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2 |
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August |
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1696 |
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Robert
Campbell
of
Glenlyon,
who
had
taken
part
in
the
Massacre
of
Glencoe,
died
in
poverty
in
Bruges.
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2 |
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August |
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1922
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Alexander
Graham
Bell,
inventor
of
the
telephone,
died
in
Nova
Scotia.
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3 |
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August |
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1460
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James
II
killed
by
an
exploding
cannon
at
the
siege
of
Roxburgh
Castle.
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3 |
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August |
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1573
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Sir
William
Kirkcaldy
of
Grange
executed,
after
defending
Edinburgh
Castle
on
behalf
of
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
from
May
1568
to
May
1573.
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4 |
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August |
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1900 |
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Elizabeth
Bowes-Lyon,
the
future
Queen
Elizabeth,
the
Queen
Mother,
born.
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4 |
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August |
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1914 |
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Britain
declared
war
on
Germany.
His
Majesty's
Government
informed
the
German
Government
on
August
4th,
1914,
that,
unless
a
satisfactory
reply
to
the
request
of
His
Majesty's
Government
for
an
assurance
that
Germany
would
respect
the
neutrality
of
Belgium
was
received
by
midnight
of
that
day,
His
Majesty's
Government
would
feel
bound
to
take
all
steps
in
their
power
to
uphold
that
neutrality
and
the
observance
of
a
treaty
to
which
Germany
was
as
much
a
party
as
Great
Britain.
The
result
of
this
communication
having
been
that
His
Majesty's
Ambassador
at
Berlin
had
to
ask
for
his
passports,
His
Majesty's
Government
have
accordingly
formally
notified
the
German
Government
that
a
state
of
war
exists
between
the
two
countries,
as
from
11
p.m.
to-day.
The
First
World
War
had
begun
on
28th
July
1914
with
Austria-Hungary's
declaration
of
war
with
Serbia.
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5 |
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August |
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1305 |
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Sir
William
Wallace
betrayed
and
handed
over
to
the
English.
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5 |
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August |
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1388 |
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Battle
of
Otterburn
in
which
Scots
defeat
Henry
Percy,
(Hotspur)
but
James,
Earl
Douglas,
died
out
of
sight
of
his
army.
"A
dead
man
won
the
field".
Sir
John
Sinclair,
Sir
Walter
Sinclair
and
Sir
James
Lindsay
took
up
the
dying
Douglas's
banner
and
went
back
into
the
battle
crying
"Douglas".
Tom
Steel,
Scotland's
Story
ISBN
0006370039
p
57
(English
sources
say
the
battle
was
on
19th
August:
John
Sadler,
Border
Fury,
England
and
Scotland
at
War
1296-1568
ISBN
1405840226
p
275.)
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6 |
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August |
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1881 |
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Sir
Alexander
Fleming,
discoverer
of
penicillin,
born.
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7 |
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August |
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1548 |
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The
young
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
sailed
from
Dumbarton
Castle
to
Roscoff,
France,
following
the
Treaty
of
Haddington,
which
betrothed
her
to
Francis,
the
Dauphin
of
France.
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8 |
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August |
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1503 |
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James
IV
married
Margaret
Tudor,
daughter
of
Henry
VII
of
England.
The
marriage
was
known
as
the
Union
of
the
Thistle
and
the
Rose.
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9 |
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August |
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1757
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Thomas
Telford,
the
civil
engineer
born
in
Westerkirk,
near
Dumfries.
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