Editorial

10 April 1512: At Linlithgow Palace, Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, gave birth to a boy who would become King James V of Scotland. He would inherit the throne at seventeen months following the...

9 April 1650: The advance guard of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose's royalist force led by Major-General John Hurry (Montrose's old adversary and now ally), crossed the Pentland Firth from the Orkney Islands and...

8 April 1746: After receiving reports that the level of the River Spey had subsided, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland ordered his army to move out from Aberdeen and began the march north...

7 April 1522: A squadron of seven English warships entered the Firth of Forth and attacked Scottish shipping and coastal towns and villages during the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524.

Declaration of Arbroath 6 April 1320: The Declaration of Aberbrothock (Arbroath) was sent to Pope John XXII from the earls and barons of Scotland. Written in Latin, possibly by Bernard of Kilwinning, it set out...

5 April 1820: An armed group of striking Glasgow workers marching to seize weapons at the Carron Ironworks in Falkirk were attacked by troops of the 10th Hussars and Stirlingshire Yeomanry in the so-called...

4 April 1406: Robert III died at Rothesay Castle shortly after receiving the news that his son and heir James had been captured by pirates while en route to France. 4 April 1661: The death...

3 April 1746: A Jacobite force under Donald Cameron of Lochiel and Alexander Macdonald of Keppoch broke off the siege of Fort William. Charles Edward Stuart had ordered all Jacobite detachments to assemble at...