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1 November 1756: The Wanlockhead Miners' Library, the second oldest subscription library in Scotland (and Europe) is established 'for our mutual improvement' with 32 members.
1 November 1940 The death in combat of Squadron Leader Archie McKellar, a leading fighter ace during the Battle of Britain.
1 November 1942: The death on the Isle of Skye of Professor J. Norman Collie, the eminent scientist and pioneering mountaineer who did much to popularise climbing on Skye.
2 November 1698: The ill-fated First Darien Expedition arrives in central America and lands in what it christens "New Caledonia" in what is now Panama.
2 November 1881: The birth in Kirkintilloch of Tom Johnston, who would serve as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1941 to 1945 and is best remembered for his role in driving ahead a number of large hydro-electricity schemes across the Highlands.
2 November 1902: The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition sails from Troon under the command of William Speirs Bruce.
2 November 1967: Winnie Ewing wins Hamilton for the Scottish National Party in a by-election, taking the first ever seat for the party.
3 November 1640: King Charles I convenes the English Parliament to raise the funds to settle with the Scots as agreed at Ripon. This "Long Parliament" will to sit until 1653 and lead to Charles' loss of his throne and his head.
3 November 1832: The death near Largo in Fife of Sir John Leslie, the physicist and mathematician best remembered for his research into the properties of heat.
3 November 1904: The birth in Lochgelly in Fife of Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, the socialist and Labour Party politician.
3 November 1934: The death of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, the builder who innovations gained him the nickname of "Concrete Bob" and who established the construction company Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd.
4 November 1677: The marriage takes place in London of William of Orange and Mary, the elder daughter of James, Duke of York.
4 November 1774: The birth in Renfrewshire of Robert Allan, a weaver who became more widely known for the songs he composed and the poetry he wrote.
4 November 1864: The birth in Edinburgh of Sir Robert Lorimer, the architect known particularly for his restorations of historic houses and castles and his promotion of the Arts & Crafts style.
4 November 1990: The death of Colonel Sir David Stirling, the Scottish landowner, keen mountaineer, World War II army officer, and founder of the Special Air Service.
5 November 1688: William of Orange lands at Brixham in south-west England with a huge army. He has come at the invitation of representatives of the English nobility and church. His wife Mary is James VII/II's daughter and until the birth of James Francis Edward was the heir to the throne.
5 November 1864: The birth of Margaret Macdonald, the artist whose work helped define "The Glasgow Style" and who married Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
5 November 1879: The death of James Clerk Maxwell, one of greatest scientists of any era.
6 November 1526: Euphemia Leslie seeks Papal dispensation to become Prioress of Elcho Nunnery near Perth. It is subsequently granted.
6 November 1887: Celtic Football Club is formally constituted at a meeting in St. Mary's church hall in East Rose Street in Glasgow.
6 November 1919: The birth in Greenock of the comedian and actor Chic Murray.
7 November 1861: The death in Stromness of Isobel Gunn, who enrolled as a man in the Hudson's Bay Company and was the first European woman to reach western Canada.
7 November 1905: Sir James and Lady Miller give a ball at Manderston near Duns to celebrate the completion of the house.
7 November 1974: The death in Orkney of Eric Linklater, an author who wrote 23 novels, plus a great deal more.
8 November 1308: Death of the theologian, philosopher, and logician, John Duns Scotus.
8 November 1736: Scotland's first public theatre opens in Carruber's Close, Edinburgh.
8 November 1891: The birth in Dunbeath of Neil M. Gunn, a prolific novelist, critic and dramatist who is rated as one of the most important Scottish authors in the first half of the 20th Century.
9 November 1903: The birth near Pittsburgh of Margaret Fay Shaw, the American writer who did much to record the music and culture of South Uist.
9 November 1937: The death of Ramsay MacDonald, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain.
9 November 1979: Forestry worker Robert Taylor encounters what he believes to be a UFO near Livingston in what becomes known as The Livingston Incident or the Robert Taylor Incident.
9 November 2001: The death in Edinburgh of Dorothy Dunnett, a historical novelist, portrait painter and an important figure on the Scottish arts and literary scene.
10 November 1150: Work begins on the construction of Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders.
10 November 1839: The birth of Thomas Ross, FRSA, an architect best known as a partner in the practice of MacGibbon and Ross, who write comprehensive multi-volume books about Scotland's castles and churches.
10 November 1924: The death of Sir Archibald Geikie, the eminent geologist who did much to place the geology of Scotland, literally, on the map.
11 November 1874: The birth in Ireland of Dame Anne Louise McIlroy, the pioneering woman doctor who helped establish the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service during the First World War.
11 November 1918: An armistice comes into force ending fighting in the First World War. During the war 140,000 Scots are killed.
12 November 1094: Duncan II is killed at Battle of Monthechin, near Kincardine. Donald III and Edmund return to the throne.
13 November 1093: Malcolm Canmore, is killed, along with his eldest son by Margaret, in yet another raid on Northumbria.
13 November 1715: At the Battle of Sheriffmuir near Dunblane the Jacobite army under the Earl of Mar is prevented from taking southern Scotland by a much smaller government force.
13 November 1715: A Jacobite uprising in northern England is cornered and defeated in Preston.
13 November 1768: The birth near Kincardine on Forth of Sir James Wylie, a doctor who rose to become the Russian imperial court surgeon and served three tsars.
13 November 1841: James Braid, the father of hypnotism, attends a demonstration of "mesmerism" that begins his interest in the subject.
13 November 1850: The birth in Edinburgh of Robert Louis Stevenson, the renowned essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books.
14 November 1650 (Gregorian calendar): The birth in the Netherlands of William of Orange, who became King William III of England and of Ireland on 22 January 1689, and King William II of Scotland on 4 April 1689.
14 November 1770: The explorer James Bruce reaches Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, becoming, perhaps, the first European to reach that location.
14 November 1844: The death in Edinburgh of John Abercrombie, one of the leading doctors of his day and author of a number of works of philosophy.
15 November 1745: Carlisle falls to the Jacobites after they have bypassed Government forces under Field Marshal George Wade.
15 November 1824: The start of the Great Fire of Edinburgh, which continues to burn for five days with the loss of thirteen lives.
15 November 1847: Sir James Young Simpson gives the first public demonstration of his new anaesthetic and a few days later publishes his highly influential Account of a New Anaesthetic Agent.
16 November 1093: Queen Margaret dies of grief and is buried in the church she has founded in Dunfermline. She later becomes St Margaret and Dunfermline becomes a centre of pilgrimage.
16 November 1700: The execution by hanging in Banff of the outlaw James (or Jamie) Macpherson.
16 November 1956: The last tram (for many years) runs in Edinburgh.
17 November 1292: John Balliol is appointed King of Scotland by King Edward I of England.
17 November 1765: The birth in France of Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, 1st Duc de Taranto, who became a Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Wars.
17 November 1858: The death in Wales of Robert Owen, the businessman and a social reformer closely associated with the cotton mills at New Lanark.
18 November 1749: The death in London of Sir William Keith, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and what is now Delaware.
18 November 1785: The birth near Cupar of Sir David Wilkie, a Scottish artist who made his name for his works depicting historical and religious subjects, though he also painted portraits and a range of other subjects.
18 November 1870: The first seven female undergraduates studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh are prevented from sitting an exam by the "Surgeons' Hall Riot".
18 November 1982: The South Ford causeway between Benbecula and South Uist is opened in a ceremony held in a severe gale.
19 November 1600: The birth at Dunfermline Palace of the future King Charles I.
19 November 1805: Explorer Mungo Park sets sail downstream into the unknown reaches of the River Niger in a large canoe with what remains of his ill-fated expedition.
19 November 1976: The death in Suffolk of Sir Basil Spence, the eminent architect who produced many buildings in the UK and beyond in the Modernist/Brutalist style.
20 November 1737: The death in London at the age of 54 of Queen Caroline, wife of King George II.
20 November 1964: The first part of the M8 Motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh is opened.
21 November 1638: The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland begins a month-long meeting in Glasgow despite the efforts of the King's Lord High Commissioner in Scotland, the Marquis of Hamilton, to dissolve it. By continuing with the meeting, the Assembly members effectively declare themselves as rebels against the King.
21 November 1673: The marriage takes place in London of James, Duke of York to his second wife, the Catholic Mary of Modena.
21 November 1835: The death near Ettrick of James Hogg, a poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English and who became one of the most unlikely literary figures ever to emerge from Scotland.
21 November 1918: The German High Seas Fleet surrenders to the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth.
22 November 1515: Marie de Guise was born in France. She would become the Queen Consort of King James V, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Regent of Scotland.
22 November 1547: 3,000 Scottish troops besiege Broughty Castle, overlooking the mouth of the Firth of Tay.
22 November 1869: The clipper "Cutty Sark" is launched at Dumbarton on the River Clyde.
23 November 1654: The birth in Edinburgh of George Watson, the account whose beqest allowed what is now George Watson's College to be founded.
23 November 1844: The death in Edinburgh of Thomas James Henderson, who became the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
23 November 1547: 3,000 Scottish troops besiege Broughty Castle, overlooking the mouth of the Firth of Tay.
24 November 1440: The Livingston and Crichton families seek to secure their joint influence over the young James II by killing the Earl of Douglas and his brother in the presence of the King at Edinburgh Castle.
24 November 1542: The Scots lose the Battle of Solway Moss, north of Carlisle, intended to stem the warlike moves of James V's uncle, King Henry VIII of England.
24 November 1572: The death in Edinburgh of John Knox, one of the leading figures in the Presbyterian Reformation of the Church in Scotland and a man who in another era would have been described as a religious fundamentalist.
24 November 1679: James, Duke of York - Charles II's brother and heir to the throne - is appointed the King's Viceroy in Scotland.
24 November 1996: The death in Inverness of Sorley MacLean, one of the most important Scottish poets of the 20th Century, and seen by many as the father of the renaissance of the Gaelic language.
25 November 1034: Malcolm II is assassinated at Glamis and is succeeded by Duncan I.
25 November 1835: The birth in Dunfermline of Andrew Carnegie, who founded what became the Carnegie Steel Company in the United States. He is principally remembered for funding large numbers of libraries and educational establishments in the US, Scotland and elsewhere.
25 November 1897: The birth in Callander of Helen Duncan, the medium and spiritualist best remembered as the last person to be jailed under the Witchcraft Act of 1735, a prosecution that contributed to the Act's repeal.
26 November 1836: John Loudon McAdam, inventor of a new way of building roads, dies in Moffat.
26 November 1917: The death of pioneering surgeon and suffragette, Elsie Inglis.
27 November 1847: Presbyterian church minister Thomas Burns sets sail from Greenock with his wife, six children and 232 other settlers bound for Dunedin in New Zealand.
27 November 1875: The death of William Dingwall Fordyce, the Aberdeenshire landowner who became a Liberal Member of Parliament and introduced innovations which greatly benefitted his tenants.
27 November 1950: The death of the professional golfer and golf course designer James Braid.
28 November 1666: At the Battle of Rullion Green in the Pentland Hills near Penicuik, 3,000 troops led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeated some 900 Covenanter rebels.
28 November 1489: The birth of Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII of England who would go on to become the wife of James IV of Scotland.
28 November 1947: The death in Stirling of James Miller, an architect known for his buildings in Glasgow and for his many railway station buildings.
29 November 1813: A campaign is launched in Dumfries to raise public subscriptions to fund a mausoleum for the poet Robert Burns.
29 November 1872: The scientist, mathematician and writer, Mary Somerville dies in Italy.
30 November 1292: John Balliol is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
30 November 1335: The Battle of Culblean, near Ballater, sees the defeat of Edward Balliol's forces under David de Strathbogie by Sir Andrew Murray.
30 November 1872: The world's first football international is held between Scotland and England, ending in a goalless draw.
30 November 1923: The death of John Maclean, the revolutionary socialist politician who played an important part in the Red Clydeside movement.
30 November 1996: The Conservative Government, under John Major and Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Forsyth, returns the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey to Edinburgh Castle, where it is put on display beside the Honours of Scotland.
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