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On this day in Scottish History
19 April
19 April 1390: The death of Robert II at Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland and Marjorie Bruce (Robert the Bruce's daughter) Robert was the first...
On this day in Scottish History
18 April
18 April 1746: Following their defeat at Culloden on the 16th, Jacobite forces converged on the village and barracks of Ruthven in Badenoch which had become a rallying point for the army. Around 4,000...
On this day in Scottish History
17 April
17 April 1746: Following his defeat at the battle of Culloden the previous day, Charles Edward Stuart arrived at Fort Augustus while the remnants of the Jacobite army made their way to Aviemore before...
On this day in Scottish History
16 April
16 April 1130: At the Battle of Stracathro, three miles north of Brechin, the forces of Óengus of Moray and Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair were defeated by forces loyal to David I of Scotland.
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On this day in Scottish History
15 April
15 April 1644: James Graham, Earl of Montrose and his force of English Royalists seize the town of Dumfries. He would be forced to withdraw back to England on 20 April in the face...
On this day in Scottish History
14 April
14 April 1582: James VI of Scotland signed a royal charter which gifted old ecclesiastical revenues to the burgh of Edinburgh to establish a college. It would lead to the establishment of Edinburgh University...
On this day in Scottish History
13 April
13 April 1689: In support of the deposed James VII and II, Tory laird and soldier John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee raised the Royal Standard of the House of Stuart on Dundee Law,...
On this day in Scottish History
12 April
12 April 1606: James VI of Scotland and I of England issued a royal decree for the creation of a union flag to represent the regal union between England and Scotland. It was initially...