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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...
On this day in Scottish History
11 April
11 April 1746: The three divisions of the Duke of Cumberland's army converged at Cullen on the Banffshire coast and Cumberland established his headquarters at Cullen House which had just recently been badly damaged...
On this day in Scottish History
10 April
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...