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Events
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Major
Events in Scotland
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5000BC
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First people
in Scotland are hunter gatherers along the coasts. Inland the country is
dense forest
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4000BC |
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First farmers
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3000BC |
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Burial mounds,
standing stones & circles |
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2000BC |
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Copper and
bronze are being used |
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1000BC |
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First Celts,
the Caledonians arrive with their iron technology |
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400BC~ |
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Brochs and
Duns - defensive stone 'castles' built |
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84AD |
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Battle at
Mons Grampius possibly in Strathearn with Romans |
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117~
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Ninth Legion
destroyed in Galloway
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122
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Work begins
on Hadrian's Wall across Northumbria
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140s
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Romans return
to Strathearn
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142~
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Antonine
Wall built Clyde to Forth
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209
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3rd Roman
occupation under Severus
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211
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Severus pulls
out. Dies on way south at York. Romans don't return in force
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300~
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Ossian, the
legendary Celtic bard
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430
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St Ninian,
a Briton brings Christianity to S Scotland
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520
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St. Fillan
come from Ireland & begins to convert the Picts to Christianity
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6thC
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Scots, Celts
from Ireland arrive in West
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683
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Scots fight
Picts Dundurn nr St. Fillans
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563
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Iona founded
by Columba
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8thC
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Fowlis Wester
church to St Bean (grandson of the King of Leinster) who preached there
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700~
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Celtic Church
is replaced by Roman
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780 to
820
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Norwegian
settlement of Shetland, Orkney and Caithness
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9thC
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Muthill is
mentioned as a house of the "servants of God"
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843
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The Scots
king Kenneth obtains the Pictish throne
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860 |
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Kenneth dies
in battle in Strathearn |
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1034
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Scotland
unites under Duncan I
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1040
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Macbeth replaces
Duncan & rules until 1057
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12thC
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Muthill
Church built
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1130~
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David I (1124-53)
establishes Anglo Norman families and a fuedal system
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1218
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Crieff is
granted its Charter
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1227
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Alexander
II grants canons of Inchaffray rights over Auchterarder
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1263
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Alexander
III defeats Haco of Norway at Largs. Hebrides and I. of Man ceded to
Scotland
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1268
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Comrie first
documented
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1286 to
1314
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'Political
crisis' with unclear succession after death of Margaret and imperialist
aims of Edward I of England
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1296
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Edward I
of England spends a night in Auchterarder Castle during his invasion
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1296
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In Edward
of England steals 'a stone' from Scone
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1296
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Blackford,
William Wallace defeats English crossing Allan Water
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1297
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William Wallace's
greatest hour, the battle of Stirling Bridge
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1306
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Roberts I
(the Bruce) crowned king
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1314
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Robert I
has a particularly good day at Bannockburn
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1320
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Declaration
of Arbroath, confirmation of Scottish Statehood in a letter to the Pope
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1328
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Robert I
grants Auchterarder to Montifex family
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1332
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Battle of
Dupplin. 13000 said to have been killed.
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1410
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First University
founded at St Andrews
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1444
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Mill in Crieff
documented
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15thC
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Scotland
becomes a significant trading nation with Netherlands and the Baltic states
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1445
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Sir David
Murray founds Collegiate Church at Tullibardine
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1491
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Drummond
Castle, founded by Sir John Drummond under license from James IV.
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16thC
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More and
more Scots adopting Protestant Calvinist views
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1508
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Sir John
Drummond founds Collegiate Church at
Innerpeffray
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1511
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Murrays killed
in Monzievaird Church as Drummonds & Campbells burn building
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1513
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Disasterous
battle of Flodden in which James IV dies against Henry VIII of England
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1559
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Mary of Guise
(Regent) negotiates Treaty of Perth from Auchterarder. (State recognition
of Protestantism)
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1561
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Catholic
Mary I (M Q of Scots) returns from France and begins power struggle with
Protestant nobles. Catholic mass is illegal in Scotland except in Mary's
private quarters
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1584
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Markets banned
to stem spread of the plague
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1568
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Mary I flees
to England
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1598 |
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A John Drummond
killed while hunting for Royal feast. McGregor persecution results |
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1603 |
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James VI
inherits England |
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1634 |
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Monzie Castle,
a Campbell stronghold |
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1642
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Civil war
within England. Scotland has no obligation to become involved in the war.
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1644
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Scotland
enters English war on Parliament side in return for Presbyterian Protestant
system in England
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1644
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Marquis of
Montrose destroys Covenanter force at Tippermore
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1644
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Marquis of
Montrose begins vicious & unsupported Royalist campaign in Scotland
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1650
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Invasion
and occupation by Cromwell
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1660
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Charles II
restored and threatens Presbyterian Church causing a series of religious
wars
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1685
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James VII
crowned but seen as threatening Protestantism further
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1688
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Crown offered
to Willian IV (of Orange) and Mary.
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1692
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Massacre
of Glencoe on William's orders to 'make and example' |
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1691
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David Drummond
establishes Innerpeffray Library
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1698
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1700 |
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Darien Venture
to colonise Panama as trading base. Spanish claim territory and William IV
prevents English Carribean help being given. Scotland bankrupt encouraging
Union with England. |
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1700~ |
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River Earn
at Crieff is bridged |
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1707
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Scottish
& English parliaments and economies unite
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1716
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Jacobites
burn towns of Lowland Strathearn after Battle of Sheriffmuir
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1715
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Jacobite
Highland uprising to restore James VII
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1720s
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Main industry
of Auchterarder is hand-loom weaving of linen.
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1728
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1st basic
bridge the River Earn at Comrie
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1730~
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Road driven
from Tummel Bridge down to Crieff
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1731
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Duke of Perth
lays out Crieff's James Square & establishs textile industry with flax
factory
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1741/2
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Military
road laid from Stirling to Crieff
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1744
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First golf
club formed in Edinburgh.
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1745
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Drummond
Castle demolished to prevent occupation by Hanoverian troops.
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1745
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Jacobite
uprising with Prince Charles Edward Stuart
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1746
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Prince Charles
Edward Stuart holds his last war council in the Drummond Arms, Crieff
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1746
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Battle of
Culloden the beginning of decades of Highland suppression
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1746+
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Commissioners
in charge of Crieff developed tanning and bleaching industries
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1748
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Crieff had
5 breweries
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1763
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Paper making
factory opened
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1770
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Work begins
to make Glasgow reachable from sea. Eventually becoming 2nd city of British
Empire
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1760s
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Stone bridge
over Earn at Comrie
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1775
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Glenturret
Distillery opened.
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1786
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'Model' textile
complex and industrial community at New Lanark
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1787
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Robert Burns
visits Crieff
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1792
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Ross Bridge
at Comrie was built
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1799
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Bridge over
Lednock at Comrie
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late
18thC
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Glen Lednock
has over 200 families among 20 small communities
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early
19thC
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The Scottish
Highlands change dramatically in the Clearances. Huge flocks of sheep replace
most of the population and their way of live
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1818
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Over 200
people from W. Strathearn leave Greenock on one boat for the New World
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1812
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Comet, the
first steam ship launched on the Clyde
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1829
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60 families
leave for Upper Canada to area which includes Carlton Place
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early
19thC
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Gaelic was
the language of Highland Strathearn but with The Clearances it quickly ceases
to be a first language
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1834
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Members of
the Church in Auchterarder begin what was to lead to a split in the Protestant
Church of Scotland
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1838
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Barns at
Castleton, Auchterarder were convert into weaving factory
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1842
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Crieff gets
mains gas
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1842
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Glasgow /
Edinburgh railway opens
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1843 |
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Massive 'walk
out' and Free Church of Scotland forms |
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1856
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Railway arrives
in Crieff
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1868
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Hydropathic
Hotel opens in Crieff. Tourism begins
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1872
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Crieff gets
mains water
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1873
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Power looms
introduced in Aucherarder factories
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1879
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Tay Rail
Bridge collapses with a train, 150 die
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1887
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Scottish
Office, Scotland's 'government' opens
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Forth Rail
Bridge opens |
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20thC
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Crieff has
become a fashionable holiday resort
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1914 to
1918
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100's of
local young men and women were killed.
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1914 to
1918
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The Great
War - death and maiming of a whole generation.
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1919
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Tanks used
to suppress Red Clydeside riots
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1920s
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Strathearn
faired better than some areas with it's backbone of agriculture.
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1920s
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The Great
Depression follows a short boom
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Crieff Electric
Supply Company begins generating giving electric lighting |
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1929
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Scottish
Protestant Churchs eventually join again
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1939 to
1945
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Evacuees
move to the safety of Strathearn. More local people lose their lives in a
World War
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1939 to
1945
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Second World
War
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1950s
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Last cattle
markets in Crieff
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1949
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2.5M Scots
sign Covenant supporting Home Rule
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1951
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End of passenger
trains from Perth, through Crieff and Comrie to Lochearnhead
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1964
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Rail line
to Crieff closes completely
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1964
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Forth Road
Bridge opens
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1974
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Scottish
National Party win 11 seats in parliament
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Scotland
becomes a oil producing country |
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1980s
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Health clinic
and supermarket on the site of Crieff railway
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1998
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Public swimming
pool and sports centre opens in Crieff
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1998
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Scots vote
overwhelmingly for own parliament
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2000 |
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Tourism and
related service industries are main source of income and jobs in
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Where to
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