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Timeline Clackmannan Date Scotland World Timeline Clackmannan Date Scotland World Last glacial period covering 11,000– No traces of human parts of Scotland (Loch 9,640BC activity have been found Lomond Stadial) in Scotland during this period. High tides cover the top of 8,000 BC Forth estuary flooded as New Stone Age, stone axes, Lookaboutye Brae far inland as far as standing stones Aberfoyle Sea level receding slowly 4,000 BC Evidence of hunter gatherer communtities across Scotland Fishermen pay homage to 2,000 BC Sea levels receding Iron Age Stone of Mannon on bank of River Forth, now at foot of Lookabootye Brae. Water wells dug at top of Tower Hill and Kennet Hill. Iron Age village east of 1000 BC Bronze Age people arrive Kennet from Central Europe 1st to 4th Centuries AD 84 AD Romans overcome Roman invasion of stockade on Tower Hill Scotland. Camelon is a sea port. 125 AD Hadrian’s Wall 135 Antonine wall is built on the south side of the Forth 209 AD Romans build a pontoon crossing at Alloa 410 Alaric, King of the Visigoths, sacks Rome 6th C 529 Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino 563 St Columba founds Angles invade mission on Iona Northumberland 7th C 609 Grand Canal in China is completed 674-678 First Arab siege of Constantinople 700 Anglo Saxons defeat 8th C the Miathi (local tribe) as they land west of Clackmannan. Finguine, son of Delroith is buried at the foot of an existing druid marker stone, the site of burial in Pictish times of a person known as Brath or Brude. St Bhega possibly builds a church between Kilbagie and Clackmannan (Kil = Church, Bagie = Bhega) 750 St Serf dedicates a 793 Vikings sack Lindisfarne small wooden church in Clackmannan 9th C Kenneth McAlpin 800 Charlemagne is becomes the first king of crowned Holy Roman Scots (834-859) Emperor 844 Union of Picts and Around 800 gunpowder Scots to form Alba invented 877 Scottish capital 868 Earliest known printed moves from Dunkeld to book in China with a date Scone 10th C Constantin II (900-943) Malcolm I (943-9540 Indulf (954-962) Malcolm II (954-1034) 11th C Duncan I (1034-1040) Astrolabe, ancient navigation tool, first used in Europe Macbeth (1040-1057) 1066 Battle of Hastings and Norman invasion 1086 Doomsday book Lulach (1057-1058) 1096 First Crusade Malcolm III (1058-1093) 1141 Malcolm IV (1153- 12th C 1115 The Bruces come 1117 University of Oxford 1165) resides in with the Normans to founded Clackmannan Annandale 1185 William the Lion sells William the Lion (1165- 1185 William the Lion’s off lands at Clackmannan to 1214) ransom to Richard I pay for his ransom after finances crusades to Holy Land being caught at the Battle of Alnwick 1195 William the Lion falls ill 1192 Scottish church is 1185 Windmills first at Clackmannan tower, proclaimed independent recorded which is then a wooden of England by Rome stockade 13th C Alexander II (1214-1249) 1215 Signing of the Magna Carta 1233 Building of Glasgow 1220 Gengis Khan conquers cathedral starts Asia 1249 Stone Church is built Alexander III (1249-1286) at High Street, dedicated by a Roman Catholic Bishop instead of Celtic 1264 Alexander III instructs 1263 Viking army is 1266 Norway cedes the Rodger de Quincy to build a defeated at Battle of Western Isles to Scotland in Tower and stables at Largs Treaty of Perth Clackmannan 1286 Alexander III is Margaret, Maid of Norway killed at Kinghorn. (1286-1290) inherits throne but dies in Orkney on way to Scotland. Edward I of England is asked to select a successor. John Baliol (1292-1296) is 1295 Treaty between granted throne by Scotland and France, is Edward I of England start of “Auld Alliance” 1296 Edward I invades Scotland. Stone of Destiny is moved to London 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge 1304 Sheriff William Bysst 14th C Robert the Bruce (1306- 1305 William Wallace is instructed to watch the Forth 1329) captured, taken to London for William Wallace and executed. 1314 Battle of Bannockburn 1315 First Scottish parliament at Cambuskeneth Robert the Bruce stays at 1320 The declaration of 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh: the Tower 1323 to 1327 to Arbroath – Scottish Edward III recognises hunt in Clackmannan Forest independence Scotland as an independent country David II (1329-1371) 1343 Black Death in Europe, up to 40% perish in first year 1357 Exchequer Rolls of 1350 Up to quarter of 1346 David II is captured at Scotland, (Abstract of the Scotland’s population dies Battle of Neville’s Cross account of John of Mentieth, in Black Death. Sherrif of Clackmannan.) (rent of ) The Mill of Clackmannan for the term of Whitsunday £2.0.0 1359 King’s Seat Hill with David II ransomed for hunting lodge is sold to 10,000 merks. Alloa Robert Bruce estate is sold to the Erskines to help raise the money. Robert II (1371-1390) the 1380 Chaucer begins writing first Stewart king of Canterbury Tales Scotland 1406 Sir David Bruce 15th C Robert III (1390-1406) 1420 Completion of The presents the mill to the Forbidden City, Beijing monastery at Cambuskenneth James I (1406-1437) succeeds to throne but is not crowned until 1424 as he is a prisoner of English. 1413 Foundation of 1431 Joan of Arc is tried University of St Andrews. and executed in France James II (1437-1460) 1440 Adjustable type printing press is invented in Germany 1451 Foundation of 1472 Denmark cedes Glasgow University Orkney and Shetland to Scotland 1479 King James calls for 1489 The Erskines of 1492 Columbus discovers timber from Clackmannan Alloa are given barony of America Forest for the planned siege Alloa and the Forest of of Dunbar Clackmannan 1497 William Mentieth is James III (1460-1488) made Sheriff of Clackmannan 1495 Creation of University of Aberdeen 16th C 1503 James IV (1488- 1513) marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England 1504 Clackmannan Pow is 1507 First printing press opened in Scotland 1506 Sir David Bruce is 1513 James IV is killed at given barony Battle of Flodden Field. The infant James V (1513 -1542) becomes king 1519 First coal is mined in 1520 Reformation closes Clackmannan the abbey and salt panning at Kennetpans ceases Mary Queen of Scots 1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-1567) succeeds to marries French Dauphin. the throne when one week old. 1560 Tower mansion built Scottish Reformation. 1559 Mary becomes Queen by the Bruces John Knox returns to of France when her Scotland in 1559. husband becomes Francis II 1561 Mary lands at Leith after death of her husband. 1567 Mary abdicates. James VI, 13 months old, accedes to throne. Earl of Mar is Regent. 1590 John Bruce patents 1587 Mary is beheaded by the first Engine in order of Queen Elizabeth Edinburgh 1592 Tolbooth built as Edward Bruce is 1588 Spanish Armada courthouse and prison. ambassador to England 1620 John Bruce 17th C James VI (1567-1625) of 1614 John Napier invents successfully applies to mine Scotland becomes James logarithms for coal I of England. Draws up plans for the union of Scotland and England 1630 Market cross erected Charles I (1625-1649) 1642 Clackmannan Parish Kirk Session Records, distillery at Clackmannan with two gaugers as well as customs officers at Kennetpans and Powside. 1646 Sir Henry Bruce patents a water engine to pump out water from his pits 1650 Moat boundary is built Rule by Parliament as the around the Tower mansion Commonwealth under Cromwell (1649-1660) 1674 Henry Bruce dies Charles II (1660-1685) leaving huge debts to his son David, an MP 1681 John Adair’s map of James VII & II (1685- 1688 William of Orange Strath Devon and the district 1688) lands at Torbay and between the Ochils and the advances on London Forth shows a mill at "Lin Mil" - presumably was for grinding corn. 1689 Jacobite Highlanders uprising 1692 Glencoe Massacre 1693 David Bruce refuses to The Bank of Scotland is William III & Queen Mary II take oath to King William created in 1695 (1689-1702) and is removed from office 1699 Evidence of a lade supplying water from Linn Mill to a water engine in the Craigrie pits 18th C 1700 Attempt to establish Caledonian colony, ‘The Darien Scheme’ in Panama practically bankrupts Scotland 1701 Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the throne, to prevent James Edward Stuart ‘The Old Pretender’ from return. 1708 William Dalrymple 1707 Act of Union of Queen Anne (1702-1714) acquires the estate of Scotland and England last Stuart monarch Clackmannan at a judicial sale by the creditors of Mr. transfers seat of David Bruce. The charter is government to London in favour of Colonel Dalrymple and Mr. Alexander Inglis. 1708 Dock is built at Clackmannan Pow 1712 The Earl of Mar writes to his brother, Lord Grange, that he is considering selling his pension from Queen Anne to purchase the Clackmannan Estate. 1713 Clackmannan Parish 1715 Jacobite rising in George I (1714-1727) Kirk Session Records, support of James Edward mentions the death of Stuart ‘The Old Pretender’ Robert Myles, a gauger at the Clackmannan distillery. 1724 Brucefield house built 1730 Kennetpans, owned George II (1727-1760) by James Stein, is the biggest distillery in Scotland 1741 Church manse is built Black Watch regiment is founded in 1740 1745 Second Jacobite rebellion in support of Charles Edward Stuart 1746 Battle of Culloden 1747 Disarming Act bans Highland dress and bagpipe music 1754 A distillery is built 1760 Carron Ironworks 1747 British Linen Company beside the lade at Mill Road uses new coke-fired founded.
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