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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Timeline of Scottish history
British history timelines This article is intended to show a timeline of the history of Glasgow up to the present day.
The written history of Scotland largely begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in Britain, when the Romans occupied what is now England and Wales, administering it as a Roman province called Britannia.
Charles Edward Stuart, known to history as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender, son of the Old Pretender, landed on the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Scottish-history   (6150 words)

  
  History of Glasgow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glasgow itself was founded by the Christian missionary Saint Mungo in the 6th century.
In 1893 the burgh was constituted as the County of the City of Glasgow.
Glasgow became one of the richest cities in the world, and parks, museums and libraries were all opened during this period.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Glasgow   (1277 words)

  
 Glasgow Cathedral Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
But the affection of the ordinary people of Glasgow for their cathedral was such that the organised trades of the city took up arms to protect it.
It is overlooked from the east by the Glasgow Necropolis and has a fine precinct resulting from the building in 1993 of the St Mungo Museum, which doubles as a Cathedral Visitor Centre.
Glasgow Cathedral deserves to be better known than it is: and would be if it were not to be found in Scotland's largest city, alongside many other competing attractions.
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /glasgow/cathedral   (1103 words)

  
 Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Info: Glasgow History Timeline
The turf-built Antonine Wallpeni is built from the River Clyde to the Forth to separate Caledonia to the north from Britannia to the south.
Glasgow's main civic building, the City Chambers, is built according to the award-winning design of William Young.
Glasgow marks its reign as Cultural Capital of Europe with a year long festival of over 3,000 events and the opening of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
www.glasgowguide.co.uk /info-timeline.html   (2042 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - List of themed timelines
Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel.
Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
Timelines of History: a collection of timelines by time, country, today in history along with assorted subjects
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/List_of_themed_timelines   (337 words)

  
 Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Info: Introduction
Glasgow International Airport (sometimes referred to as Glasgow Abbotsinch International Airport), located 13 km (8 miles) west of Glasgow, near the towns of Paisley and Renfrew, is the largest international airport in Scotland, and number five in the UK.
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport (IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK) is a facility situated north of the town of Prestwick in Ayrshire, Scotland.
A timeline of the history of a national hero, William Wallace.
www.glasgowguide.co.uk /info.html   (726 words)

  
 BBC - History - 18th-century Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
By the 1700s, Glasgow was distinguished as Scotland's second city, even though the population of around 15,000 was considerably less than Edinburgh's 35,000.
Erected at Glasgow Cross in 1733, the equestrian statue of William of Orange was intended as the city's tribute to the deceased king's 'immortal honour'; a tangible, if romanticised, representation of the benefits that his regime had fostered.
The progressive image of the 'merchant city' was fixed from the 1690s because constitutional change was inextricably identified with modernity, liberty and the spirit of enterprise.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/state/nations/scotland_glasgow_01.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Washstand (1994.120) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
While a young architectural apprentice, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the son of a Glasgow policeman, attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Herbert MacNair, Frances Macdonald, and her sister Margaret Macdonald (who would later become Mackintosh's wife).
His best-known commissions include a building for the Glasgow School of Art (built in two phases, 1897–99 and 1907–9) and Hill House (1902–4), the Walter Blackie residence in the Glasgow suburb of Helensburgh.
Miss Cranston, one of Mackintosh's most important clients, was the proprietress of a group of highly successful tearooms in Glasgow, many of which she had Mackintosh design.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/11/euwb/hod_1994.120.htm   (328 words)

  
 Category:Timelines
See List of themed timelines for a structured list.
Timeline of labor unions in the United States
Timeline of some phones, PDAs, computers, and game systems
www.cooldictionary.com /words/Category:Timelines.wikipedia   (115 words)

  
 GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Scottish History Timeline
James Watt patents his steam engine, in which the use of a condenser outside the main cylinder will prove to be one of the greatest advances in the history of industry, revolutionizing the steam engine and transforming the world.
Publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith marks the transition of Europe from a late medieval to a modern economy and will continue its appeal and great influence for centuries.
Publication of Robert Lindsay's "Historie and Chronicles of Scotland".
www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/timeline/tl10.html   (700 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Glasgow Tour: Make Borders History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Invited by make borders history, a few hundred people met at cannon underground for a tour to explore the border regime as it manifests itself in the Scottish city.
The make border tour-ists split up in smaller groups, and between 1pm and 6pm, 6 groups of 50 to 100 people were walking across glasgow, each led by a tour guide, first walking off in different directions, then criss-crossing each others paths.
Although no registered demos in glasgow were possible, the make borders history tour took place without interruptions.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2005/07/315849.html   (478 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Scotland: Society and Culture: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ayrshire History - Illustrated articles on the history of Ayrshire and its people, and the local history of its parishes, towns and villages.
History of Scotland - Description of the history of Scotland from 1 AD to present day.
History of Scottish Highland Dress - An article mainly about the development of the kilt.
dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Society_and_Culture/History   (1285 words)

  
 Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Women's History
For millennia women have left their mark on the world, at times changing the course of history and at other times influencing small but significant spheres of life.
Moreover, changes in status for many women in modern times—the right to own property, to vote, and to choose their own careers—may obscure the accomplishments made by women of earlier eras.
The timeline tells a general story of women's achievements over the course of human history.
search.eb.com /women/articles/Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson.html   (410 words)

  
 scottish history timeline
The death rate of both major towns rose in the 1820's and 1830s, especially from typhoid fever, so that population growth was sustained by immigration rather than the births of children.
The industrial primacy of the Glasgow and Clyde region was made possible by coal and iron deposits, served by canal, sea and rail transportation.
1830's-1870's Glasgow and Edinburgh were centers for engineering and science, home to the most eminent Victorian scientists William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, one of the authors of the laws of thermodynamics, James Clerk Maxwell, a pioneer in the theory of electromagneticism, and David Brewster, researcher in optics and photography and inventor of the kaleidoscope.
www.uiowa.edu /~c008224b/scotline2.htm   (2702 words)

  
 TWINSTUFF.COM--Twinstuff Conjoined Twins Timeline, 900-1499
An attempted surgical separation caused the death of one of the twins, with the survivor dying three days later.
Following the death of one sister, the second twin refused to be separated, supposedly saying, "As we came together, we will also go together," dying six hours later.
A 1983 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences essay relays the supposed origin of the birth occuring when two women (one of whom was pregnant) were having a conversation and had a collision with their heads.
www.twinstuff.com /conj-1100.htm   (424 words)

  
 Articles - List of themed timelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Timeline is a Mediawiki graphical plugin for visual timelines.
Chronologies or timelines are important in understanding history.
Timeline of railway history (see also Category:Timeline of rail transport)
www.sinoz.com /articles/Timeline   (320 words)

  
 Bowling Green Business University History
Mell establishes the Glasgow Normal School in Glasgow, Kentucky.
Failing to secure adequate financial support in Glasgow, Mell and Williams move to Bowling Green and establish the Southern Normal School and Business College.
The school occupies the former home of the Bowling Green Female College on Summer (later College) Street.
www.wku.edu /Library/onlinexh/bu/timeline.htm   (531 words)

  
 All posts tagged with history | Metafilter
They show us the history of local areas, the growth of nations and they provide the briefest of glimpses into the lives of the past.
From Romulus to Ronald Reagan: a comprehensive timeline of apocalyptic predictions.
In 1971*, there were grand visions of the Glasgow of the future; the Glasgow of tomorrow would be a bright, shining new city, and the Clyde* would once again be something to be proud of.
www.metafilter.com /tags/history   (9094 words)

  
 Newmont Mining Corporation - Timeline of Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Glasgow doctors, Robert and William Forrest, and chemist John S. MacArthur patent the process for extracting gold from ore using cyanide.
Two prospectors discover gold while fishing in the Klondike River in northern Canada, richer finds were rumored farther south in Alaska's Yukon, spawning the Alaska Gold Rush in 1898 - the last gold rush of the century.
Astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii use the giant gold-coated mirrors of the observatory's twin telescopes to produce the most detailed images of Neptune and Uranus ever captured.
www.newmont.com /en/gold/goldfacts/history/timeline.asp   (1180 words)

  
 Nova Scotia History Index
Dyer Family History In November 1777, Jones Dyer accompanied Colonel John Allan, Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, and a party of American "Patriots", to St. Andrews, where they held a council with the Indians.
The Eddy Rebellion does not occupy much space in history, but it was an important event in the district where it occurred, and in the lives of those who were responsible for it.
When the news of the British occupation reached Boston the Massachusetts General Court was in session, and it was soon determined to drive out the enemy, if possible, before he had had time to strengthen his position.  Preparations were made with energy and a military and naval force was soon organized...
www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/histindx.html   (7852 words)

  
 History of Glasgow
Your mum was right you know, never accept sweets from strangers, look both ways before crossing the road and...
Alan Pinkerton, founder of the renowned US detective agency and of the expression 'private eye', is born in the Glasgow area
Glasgow is chosen as UK City of Architecture and Design
www.myglasgow.org /glasgow/community-history.htm   (202 words)

  
 Kentuckiana Digital Library: Help
Native American and Canadian forces defeat a disorganized group of settlers at the Battle of Blue Licks in present-day Robertson County.
Gilbert Imlay publishes the novel considered to be Kentucky's first, The Emigrants; or The History of An Expatriated Family.
Glasgow Normal School opens, a forerunner of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.
kdl.kyvl.org /html/kdl/timeline.htm   (3309 words)

  
 Skyelander's COMPLETE Scottish History Timeline
This timeline is undergoing rennovation and not all of the links are yet connected.
His reign is one of the most important in Scotland's history, extending Scottish borders to the River Tees, including all of Northumberland.
It was Englands most severe loss to any army in their medieval history.
members.aol.com /skyelander/timeline.html   (4170 words)

  
 H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: History of H.M.S. Hood - Career Timeline of H.M.S. Hood
The following is a timeline of Hood'scareer from launch until sinking.
Much of this information was derived from her official logs by Bruce Taylor, author of the magnificent book "'The Battlecruiser H.M.S. Hood: An Illustrated History".
We are most indebted to him for allowing us to borrow heavily from his information to augment our own research here until such time as we complete our own day-by-day history of Hood.
www.hmshood.com /history/timeline1.htm   (713 words)

  
 Intersection 1995
In our timeline, NASA did advocate such a program, but the times were wrong: we were involved in the Vietnam War, social programs were soaking up the government's money, and so on.
Flynn said that because alternate history which has grown out of science fiction, it tends to dwell on technology; he would like to look at political fields or religion, Leeper agreed, saying that she likes to read alternate histories that look at social change, and particularly at religion.
History is after all trying to change the future the way we want it, which is the whole idea of Flynn's In the Country of the Blind.
fanac.org /worldcon/Intersection/w95-rpt.html   (22013 words)

  
 BBC News | Race
Merchants from Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow and London rapidly expanded the slave trade and brought goods and riches back to Britain, wealth that would bankroll the coming industrial revolution.
They also increased the number of African men, women and children resident in Britain.
Eventually the abolitionists became one of the largest popular protests of British history and the end of slavery in Britain came in two stages.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm   (1836 words)

  
 Homeopathy Timeline: 1825-1849 History
Glasgow graduate William Purdie, MD is the first homeopath
Thanks to the generous cooperation of Sylvain Cazalet and the Personal Photographic Library of Doctor Robert Séror for providing some of the photographs of classical homeopaths we enjoy on this Timeline.
The information on the history of homeopathy around the world is excerpted from Julian Winston's tour de force, "The Faces of Homoeopathy".
www.wholehealthnow.com /homeopathy_pro/homeopathy_1825_1849.html   (900 words)

  
 Glasgow: Scotland with style - History Timeline
Glasgow hosts more than 5,000 delegates attending the 67th American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) World Congress - the Association’s first ever UK visit.
The city of Glasgow and Hampden Park play host to the UEFA Champions League Final between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen on 15th May.
Glasgow plays host to the World Irish Dancing Championships in March, the first time the competition had been held outside Ireland.
www.seeglasgow.com /index.asp?pgid=1377   (707 words)

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