Kilt Wearers Calendar

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July 1 -- Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of kilts & tartan, the teaching of Gaelic, and the carrying of weapons; including bagpipes.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

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September 11 --Referendum on Devolution, which approved the creation of a new Scottish Parliament by a substantial majority. (1997)

September 21 --John McAdam, inventor of "tar macadam" road surface, born, (1756)

November 5 --Guy Fawkes Day

November 13 --Robert Louis Stevenson, author “Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island" born in Edinburgh (1850)

November 24 --Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born. (1942)

November 25 -- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist born in Dunfermline. (1835)

November 30 --Stone of Destiny, stolen from Scone by King Edward I of England in 1296, returned to Scotland and installed in Edinburgh Castle. (1996)

November 30 --St Andrew's Day

December 4 --Essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle, best known for his "French Revolution" born in Ecclefechan. (1795)

December 26 --Boxing Day, Traditional Day in Scotland when the Landlords gave the leftovers from their Christmas Supper in a box, to the Scots peasants.

December 31 --Hogmanay




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