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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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1903
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston        
1904
 
     
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh        
1910
 
    
Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole       
Captain Scott, colour print 1909
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1911
 
     
Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh        
1924
 
     
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris        
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       
1927
 
     
The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle