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| January dates in Scottish History
1 January 1651
King Charles II crowned at Scone. The last coronation in Scotland.
2 January 1793
Thomas Muir of Huntershill, Glasgow-born Advocate, arrested for sedition. He was released after a few days and went to France, on his return to Scotland, he was tried and sentenced to 14 years transportation.
7 January 1451
Glasgow University founded by a bull of Pope Nicolas V, at the suit of James II and Bishop Wiliam Turnbull.
8 January 1746
The Burgh of Stirling surrendered to Jacobite Army but the Castle remained in Hanoverian hands.
13 January 603
Death of St Kentigern (or Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow.
16 January 1874
Birth of Robert Service, poet, in Preston, his Scottish father was from Kilwinning. Raised in Ayrshire he emigrated to Canada and through his poetry became known as the 'Bard of the Yokon'.
17 January 1746
The Jacobite Army, led by Lord George Murray, defeated Government forces under General Hawley. The last Jacobite victory.
19 January 1757
Death of Thomas Ruddiman, born in Banff in 1674, grammarian, schoolmaster, reviewer, historian, printer and publisher, Jacobit, librarian of Advocates' Library
23 January 1570
James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, assassinated by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh at Linlithgow.
25 January 1759
Birth of Robert Burns, Scotland's National Bard, in a clay bigan at Alloway.
28 January 1580
King James VI signed the Confession of Faith, "The King's or Negative Confession", later incorporated into the National Covenant of 1638.
[later became also James 1 of England, after death of Elizabeth I]
Source: Article Library > Scotland Articles & Resources at
Burke's Peerage & Gentry
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