The 107 moments that made Scotland
2. The Wildwood and its fauna c8,500BC
3. Pioneers at Barns Ness, East Lothian, and Cramond c8,000BC
4. The hall at Balbridie on Deeside and the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, c3,000BC
5. Pytheas circumnavigates Scotland c320BC, Calanais, Lewis
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Hide Ad6. Mon Graupius 83AD, Hadrian's Wall 117AD, Antonine Wall 142AD
7. Ninian at Whithorn c400
8. Dalriadan influx and Columba at Iona 563AD
9. Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Cuthbert at Melrose c670AD
10. Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses and the Angles 670-700AD
11. Pictish stones and Dunnichen 685AD
12. Vikings drag longship over the isthmus at Tarbet in Argyll
13. The siege and fall of Dumbarton Rock to the Vikings 870AD
14. Constantine climbs the Hill of Faith at Scone, 906AD
15. Battle of Carham on the Tweed 1018
16. King MacBeth in Moray 1050s
17. St Margaret at Dunfermline c1080
18. Four Border abbeys, David I and the wool trade c1130s
19. St Andrews Cathedral c1160 onwards
20. Duns Scotus and the Schoolmen
21. Finlaggan on Islay, the Lordship of the Isles, Somerled c1160
22. Haakon's fleet at Kyleakin, Skye, and battle of Largs 1263
23. Death of Alexander III at Kinghorn, 1286
24. William Wallace and Andrew Moray c1300
25. Bannockburn 1314
26. Bruce's siege of Carlisle 1315 and beginning of Little Ice Age
27. The Black Death, deserted farms c1349
28. St Andrews University 1410
29. Orkney and Shetland ceded by Denmark to Scotland 1469
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Hide Ad30. Chepman and Miller set up the first Scottish printing press 1507
31. Flodden 1513
32. Scottish Reformation - a school in every parish, 1560s
33. The Border Reivers, rescue of Kinmont Willie 1593
34. Robert Carey's ride from London to Edinburgh in 1603
35. The making of the King James Bible.
36. The National Covenant at Greyfriars Kirkyard 1638
37. Montrose defeated at Philiphaugh near Selkirk 1645
38. The Killing Times in 1680s, field conventicle at Irongray near Dumfries
39. Massacre at Glencoe 1692
40. Royal Bank of Scotland founded 1695
41. The Darien Scheme
42. The Act of Union, Edinburgh 1707
43. Jacobite Rising 1715, chaotic battle at Sheriffmuir near Perth
44. Modern kilt invented, Lochaber 1723
45. The Ordnance Survey begun
46. Advance of English, retreat of Gaelic
47. Jacobite Rising at Prestonpans, 1745
48. Royal and Ancient Golf Club founded in St Andrews 1754
49. First school for deaf and dumb children established in Edinburgh 1760
50. James Small and invention of the swing plough 1770
51. Enlightenment Edinburgh, Encyclopaedia Britannica at Anchor Close 1771
52. James Watt and steam engine 1771
53. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Kirkcaldy, 1776
54. David Hume, below, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris
55. Highland and Lowland Clearances begin 1780s
56. James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, Siccar Point, Berwickshire, 1788
57. Scotland and the drive for empire
58. The Forth and Clyde Canal dug, Irish navvies, Burke and Hare
59. New Lanark 1783
60. Robert Burns' Tam O' Shanter 1791
61. The False Alarm, threat of Napoleonic invasion 1801
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Hide Ad62. Walter Scott, 1810s, start of romantic Scotland and tourism
63. The Scotsman founded 1817
64. George Smith founds the Glenlivet Distillery 1824
65. The growth of Glasgow, snapshot 1825
66. First Reform Act 1832
67. Victoria at Balmoral, John Brown, 1850s/60s
68. The railway boom, the Forth Bridge
69. A Caithness school 1851, 75 per cent of children aged five-15 at school, same in Berwickshire, more than anywhere else in Britain.
70. Irish immigration after the famine, founding of Celtic and Rangers.
71. Scotland in Africa - the Buccleuch panel
72. Victorian sport mania, Scottish Rugby Union founded 1873, first international match between Scotland and England.
73. Scottish America, emigrants' impact - 19th century
74. Battle of the Braes, Skye, 1882, Napier Commission
75. John Watson Nicol composes An Ataireachd Ard (The Surge of the Sea) 1883
76. Robert Louis Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, Treasure Island
77. Scottish Trades Union Congress formed in Glasgow 1897
78. The Discovery sails from Dundee
79. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the Glasgow School of Art
80. 1914-1918 War
81. The building of HMS Hood, Battle of Ypres 1917
82. The sinking of HMS Iolaire off Stornoway 1919
83. Women's suffrage
84. General Strike 1926
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Hide Ad85. Hugh MacDiarmid writes A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
86. Ramsay MacDonald Prime Minister, rise of the Labour Party
87. Great Depression in 1930s, three million unemployed
88. Second World War, St Valery, 51st Highland Division captured, skirmish in the air over the Forth
89. The Clydebank Blitz
90. D-Day
91. The first Edinburgh Festival 1947
92. National Health Service founded, Arden House revolutionised
93. Television arrives - 1950s, STV, Grampian, Border TV, BBC.
94. Cumbernauld New Town
95. North Sea Oil licenses granted 1965, Aberdeen, Nigg Bay.
96. Linwood begins production of the Hillman Imp
97. Pop music booms, Lulu, Donovan
98. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, Jimmy Reid, 1971
99. Stop Yer Ticklin Jock! Scottish comedy from Harry Lauder through to Chic Murray to Billy Connolly, right.
100. The rise of the SNP, 1974 elections
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Hide Ad101. Scotland at the movies - Sean Connery, Gregory's Girl, Whisky Galore.
102. Scotland's World Cup campaign in Argentina, Ally's Army, 1978
103. Miners' strike 1982, decline of heavy industry
104. Gaelic resurgence, Runrig, announcement of TV service, 1989
105. Glasgow European City of Culture 1990
106. Dolly the Sheep cloned in Edinburgh 1997
107. The Scottish Parliament reconvenes 1999.