Scotland's Pages - Scotland's Written History

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• 1800-1850
• 1850-1900
• 1900-1950
• 1950-2000

1900
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Queen Mother, born.

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1901 Death of Queen Victoria.

1902
25 killed at Scotland v England football match at Ibrox Stadium.

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1902 End of Boer War.

1905
'Scotland's Industrial Souvenir'.

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1905 Russo-Japanese War.

1906
First two Labour MPs elected in Scotland.

1912
'Votes for Women!'.

1914
Suffragette tries to blow up Burns Cottage.

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1914 Outbreak of World War I.

1918
Armistice Day (Earl Haig's diary).

1918
John Maclean becomes Britain's first Bolshevik Consul.

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1916 Battle of the Somme
1917 Russian Revolution.

1919
German fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow.

1923
Death of John Maclean.

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1922 Irish Free State established.

1924
Eric Liddell wins 400m Olympic Gold medal.

1926
'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle'.

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1926 General Strike.

1930
Evacuation of St Kilda.

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1930 Gandhi begins new civil disobedience campaign in India.

1935
Anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh.

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1933 Hitler takes power in Germany.

1936
The Queen Mary leaves the Clyde.

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1939 Outbreak of World War II.

1940
Sinking of the Arandora Star with Scots-Italian internees on board.

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1940 Dunkirk evacuation.

1941
Clydebank Blitz.

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1941 Pearl Harbour: America enters the war.

1943
Gaelic Poetry – Sorley MacLean.

1947
Edinburgh Festival founded.

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1945 End of World War II.