July 1 -- Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of kilts & tartan, the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons; including bagpipes. (1782)

July 6 -- John Paul Jones, hero of the US Navy, born Kirkbean, Dumfries. (1747)

July 11-- Robert the Bruce born. (1274)

July 21 -- Robert Burns dies in Dumfries. (1796)

July 21 -- Allan Pinkerton, creator of US Secret Service, born in Glasgow (1819)

July 31 -- "Kilmarnock Edition" of the poems of Robert Burns "Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" first published. (1786)

August 1 -- Proscription Act introduced, banning kilts, tartan, bagpipes (banned as a weapon of war), the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons. (1747)

August 4 -- Birth of the entertainer Sir Harry Lauder. (1870)

August 6 -- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, born at Lochfield (1881)

August 11 -- Author and poet C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) born at Langholm, Dumfriesshire. (1892)

August 13 -- John Logie Baird, inventor of the first television, born in Helensburgh (1888)

August 15 -- Macbeth killed in battle by Malcolm at Lumphanan, near Aberdeen. (1057)

August 15 -- Sir Walter Scott, Writer and poet, born Edinburgh. (1771)

August 25 --Actor Sir Sean Connery born. (1930)