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| 1904 |
| | | The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders | |
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| 1927 |
| | | The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The Scottish National Party, or SNP, is founded to campaign for an independent Scotland | |
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| 1941 August 21 |
| | | The first of the Arctic convoys leaves Scapa Flow, in the north of Scotland, taking Hurricane fighters and raw materials to the Soviet Union | |
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