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1 June 1679: Troops encounter a large conventicle of many thousands of people taking place in Ayrshire at Loudoun Hill. The Battle of Drumclog that follows sees the troops overwhelmed by much larger numbers of largely unarmed Covenanters and they flee.
1 June 1841: The death in New York of Robert Allan, a weaver who became more widely known for the songs he composed and the poetry he wrote. He had arrived in New York on 25 May, to start a new life in the new world, and died six days later.
1 June 1841: The eminent artist Sir David Wilkie dies on board a ship in the Mediterranean.
1 June 1872: The death in New York of James Gordon Bennett, the founder, publisher and editor of the New York Herald.
1 June 1878: The Tay Railway Bridge opens linking Dundee with Fife.
2 June 1398: The date sometimes given for the landing by Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney, in what is thought to be Newfoundland.
2 June 1581: The ex-Regent, James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, is executed for his alleged involvement in the murder of Lord Darnley, James VI's father, fourteen years earlier following accusations made by Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney.
2 June 1646: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose is ordered by Charles I to disband his forces and flee to France. He leaves the country in September.
2 June 1994: A Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board.
3 June 1726: The birth in Edinburgh of James Hutton, considered by many to be the father of modern geology.
3 June 1774: The birth in Paisley of Robert Tannahill, a silk weaver by trade, and a self-taught poet and musician who went on to become known as the Weaver Poet.
3 June 1863: The birth in Inveraray of Neil Munro, the journalist and author best remembered as the creator the the fictional Clyde puffer Vital Spark and her captain, Para Handy.
4 June 1694: The Merchant Maiden Hospital is established in Edinburgh with considerable support from philanthropist Mary Erskine. Known since 1944 as The Mary Erskine School, it is one of the oldest girls' schools in the world.
4 June 1792: The King's Birthday riots, apparently prompted by agitators, begin in Edinburgh. They last three days and nights and lead to the death of at least one person.
4 June 1912 The birth in Aberdeen of Flora McBain, or Flora Sadler, who became an eminent astronomer and mathematician.
5 June 1723: The birth in Kirkcaldy of the hugely influential political economist and moral philosopher, Adam Smith.
5 June 1868: The birth in Edinburgh of James Connolly, the Irish socialist and republican executed by the British for his part in the Irish Easter Rising in 1916.
5 June 1916: The Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hampshire strikes a mine and sinks off Orkney with the loss of 643 crew and 7 passengers. Amongst those killed is Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, en route to Russia.
5 June 1929: Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
6 June 1838: The birth in Fraserburgh of Thomas Blake Glover, one of the first westerners to establish a business in Japan, and widely remembered there as one of the founding fathers of modern Japan.
6 June 1891: The death in Ottowa of Sir John A. Macdonald, the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation who became the first Prime Minister of Canada.
6 June 1897: The birth near Dumfries of Jane Haining, who became a Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest and later died in Auschwitz.
7 June 1329: Robert the Bruce dies aged 55. He is succeeded by his five year old son, David II.
7 June 1811: The birth in Bathgate of Sir James Young Simpson, the first man ever to be knighted for his services to medicine, who is principally remembered for introducing anaesthesia to childbirth.
7 June 1930: The Kirriemuir Camera Obscura, paid for by writer J.M. Barrie, opens to the public for the first time.
8 June 793: The monastery at Lindisfarne suffers its first raid by Vikings. Others will follow, leading to the abandonment of the monastery in 875.
8 June 1440: James Kennedy is formally appointed Bishop of St Andrews by Pope Eugenius IV.
8 June 1865: Glenfarclas Distillery in Moray is acquired by John Grant, marking the beginning of a period of major expansion.
9 June 597: St Columba dies in his monastery at Iona.
9 June 1573: The death in prison in Leith of Sir William Maitland of Lethington, the politician who rose to become Secretary of State to Mary, Queen of Scots.
9 June 1952: The death in Canada of John MacGregor VC, MC & Bar, DCM, a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross.
10 June 1688: James VII/II and his wife Mary of Modena have a son, christened James Francis Edward. Many Scots - and English - are concerned by the prospect of a continuing Catholic Stewart dynasty.
10 June 1719: Spanish troops, supported by 1,000 Jacobites clansmen, are defeated at the Battle of Glen Shiel which takes place on the steep mountainsides flanking the glen. The Spanish surrender but their part in the battle is remembered by the name of the overlooking mountain, Sgurr nan Spainnteach, or "Peak of the Spaniards".
10 June 1858: The death in London of Robert Brown, the botanist best known for his work in Australia, and one of the first to observe the phenomenon since called Brownian motion.
11 June 1488: James III seeks to capture his eldest son, James, Duke of Rothesay, who at 15 is becoming a focus for dissent in the kingdom. Following the Battle of Sauchieburn between their supporters near Stirling, on the site of the earlier Battle of Bannockburn, the injured James III is murdered by persons unknown.
11 June 1560: The death in Edinburgh Castle of Marie de Guise, Regent of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
11 June 1727: The death in Germany of King George I. He is succeeded by King George II.
11 June 1930: The liner RMS Empress of Britain is launched at John Brown's shipyard on the Clyde by HRH Prince of Wales.
11 June 1975: The first North Sea oil is pumped ashore at Sullom Voe in Shetland.
12 June 1997: The island of Eigg passes into community ownership when it is purchased by the Eigg Heritage Trust.
13 June 1625: King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria, daughter of King Henry IV of France.
13 June 1831: The birth in Edinburgh of James Clerk Maxwell, widely regarded as one of greatest scientists of any era. His work on the theory of electromagnetism makes him the father of modern physics and he also made fundamental contributions to mathematics, astronomy and engineering.
13 June 1872: The birth in Edinburgh of Chrystal Macmillan, who would become a barrister and a campaigner for women's rights.
14 June 1645: The New Model Army, with Oliver Cromwell as its second-in-command, wins the decisive victory of the Civil War at Naseby.
14 June 1933: The first aircraft lands on the beach at the north end of the island of Barra that now serves as Barra Airport.
14 June 1946: John Logie Baird, one of the fathers of television, dies at his home in Bexhill-on-Sea.
15 June 1567: Scottish nobles intent on retrieving Mary Queen of Scots from James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, meet the couple and a thousand supporters at Carberry Hill, east of Edinburgh. After a day long stand-off Mary agrees to the nobles' demands and sends Bothwell away. They never meet again. Mary is taken away to imprisonment in Lochleven Castle on an island in Loch Leven, near Kinross.
15 June 1945: The RMS Queen Mary leaves Gourock on the River Clyde, taking 15,000 US troops home.
15 June 1996: The death of Sir Fitzroy Maclean, the diplomat, soldier, adventurer, writer and politician: and, according to some accounts, a partial model for the fictional character of James Bond.
16 June 1338: The English give up their siege of Dunbar Castle, whose defence is commanded by Agnes Randolph of Dunbar, after five months.
16 June 1548: A large French army lands at Leith to support the Scots following an agreement that Mary Queen of Scots, still only five, would marry Francois, eldest son of King Henri II of France.
16 June 1971: The death of Lord Reith, viewed by many as the father of the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation.
17 June 1390: Alexander Stewart, youngest son of Robert II and younger brother of John, Earl of Carrick (now Robert III) and Robert, Earl of Fife destroys Elgin Cathedral in reprisal against Bishop Alexander Bur. He is better remembered as the "Wolf of Badenoch".
17 June 1790: The death in Canada of William Davidson, the lumber merchant, ship builder and politician.
17 June 1943: The death in Gullane of Annie S. Swan, a prolific novelist who specialised in light romantic fiction.
18 June 1633: The Scottish coronation of King Charles I in St Giles Cathedral is accompanied by an Anglican service, a sign of the conflict to come.
18 June 1639: King Charles' English army reaches Berwick-upon-Tweed but when confronted with a much larger Scots army he agrees a truce, the "Pacification of Berwick".
18 June 1815: Ensign Charles Ewart captures the regimental eagle of the French 45th Regiment of the Line at the Battle of Waterloo.
19 June 1306: The army of Robert the Bruce suffers a defeat at the hands of the English at the Battle of Methven, west of Perth.
19 June 1566: Mary Queen of Scots gives birth to a son, Charles James, at Edinburgh Castle.
19 June 1861: The birth in Edinburgh of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, the commander of the British forces in France and Belgium during the latter half of the First World War.
19 June 1937: The death of J.M. Barrie, the novelist and dramatist best known for inventing the character of Peter Pan.
20 June 1723: The birth at Logierait in Perthshire of the moral philosopher and historian Adam Ferguson, sometimes known as "Ferguson of Raith".
20 June 1837: The death of King William IV: he is succeeded by Queen Victoria.
20 June 1887: The rebuilt Tay Rail Bridge opens.
21 June 1221: King Alexander II marries Joan of England, sister of the English King Henry III, at York Minster.
21 June 1791: The birth in Dumbarton of Robert Napier, the engineer often remembered as "The Father of Clyde Shipbuilding."
21 June 1919: The captured German fleet is scuttled in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
22 June 1679: Covenanters gather at Bothwell, near the River Clyde, throughout June but are unable to agree a common manifesto. Meanwhile the government gathers its forces under the Duke of Monmouth, one of Charles II's many illegitimate offspring. The two sides meet at the Battle of Bothwell Brig (Bridge) and the Covenanters are routed with the loss of 800 killed and twice as many taken prisoner.
22 June 1680: Radical Presbyterian Richard Cameron enters Sanquhar with a group of armed followers and makes the Sanquhar Declaration, denouncing King Charles II.
22 June 1861: The death while fighting a fire in London of James Braidwood, who founded the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh and pioneered the science of modern fire-fighting.
23 June 1650: Charles II lands at Garmouth in Morayshire after sailing from the Netherlands and evading the English ships trying to intercept him. Charles signed the Covenant and the Solemn League immediately after coming ashore.
23 June 1725: Serious rioting breaks out in Glasgow in protest at Westminster-imposed taxes on Scottish malt.
23 June 1832: The death in Edinburgh of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, the geologist, geophysicist and politician.
23 June 1876: The death of Robert Napier, the engineer often remembered as "The Father of Clyde Shipbuilding."
24 June 1314: An English army under King Edward II sent to relieve Stirling Castle is defeated by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn. Edward II only narrowly escapes with his life. It is the most notable single military victory in Scottish history.
24 June 1488: The coronation at the age of 15 of King James IV, arguably the first effective monarch of the House of Stewart.
25 June 592: St Moluag dies in Rosemarkie.
25 June 1799: The birth at Scone near Perth of David Douglas, the botanist who gave his name to the Douglas Fir.
25 June 1886: The Crofters Holding Act, sometimes called the "Magna Carta of Gaeldom", is passed, protecting the tenure of crofters.
26 June 1695: The establishment by an Act of the Scots Parliament of the "Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies," which is better known as the "Darien Company".
26 June 1830: King George IV dies: he is succeeded by King William IV.
26 June 1970: The Kingston Bridge, carrying the M8 motorway over the River Clyde in Glasgow, is opened.
27 June 1746: Flora MacDonald sails "over the sea to Skye" from Benbecula with a disguised Bonnie Prince Charlie.
27 June 1751: David Balfour and Alan Breck, fictional heroes of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Kidnapped", begin their trek across Scotland.
27 June 1947: The death of Nan Hughes, the socialist local politician and daughter of Keir Hardie, first leader of the Labour Party.
28 June 1146: A service of dedication is held in the abbey church at Melrose Abbey, which would take another 50 years to complete in its entirety.
28 June 1491: The birth of Henry Tudor, who as King Henry VIII of England had a huge impact on Scotland.
28 June 1838: Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey in London.
29 June 1559: John Knox preaches a sermon in St Giles' in Edinburgh that can be regarded as the real starting point of the Reformation of the Church in Scotland.
29 June 1751: The birth near Kilmarnock of William Roxburgh, a doctor and botanist who did much to promote the science of botany in India.
29 June 1995: The first spirit legally distilled on the Isle of Arran since 1836 flows through the spirit safe of the Isle of Arran Distillery in Lochranza.
30 June 1688: A group of Protestant nobles asks William of Orange to travel to England to overthrow King James VII/II.
30 June 1917: John Maclean, the revolutionary socialist politician who played an important part in the Red Clydeside movement, is released from prison following a public campaign.
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