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1886
 
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The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause      
1890
 
   
A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland      
1890
 
    
Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom       
1891
 
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A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland      
1893
 
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The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules      
1894
 
     
Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air        
1895
 
    
Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium       
1900
 
    
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music hall in Westminster       
Sheet music cover for Harry Lauder, c.1905


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1901
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow        
1901
 
    
Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic       
Mitchell HMS Discovery in the ice (detail)
National Maritime Museum

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