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Events relating to scotland
Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom
A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland
The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules
Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air
Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music hall in Westminster
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow
Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole
Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris
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
The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin
Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth
The Scottish National Party, or SNP, is founded to campaign for an independent Scotland
The first of the Arctic convoys leaves Scapa Flow, in the north of Scotland, taking Hurricane fighters and raw materials to the Soviet Union
Scottish Grand Prix driver Jim Clark wins the first of his two Formula One titles
English novelist Paul Scott publishes The Jewel in the Crown, the first volume in his 'Raj Quartet'
19-year-old rugby player J.P.R. Williams makes his debut for Wales in a match against Scotland
Scottish Grand Prix racing driver Jackie Stewart wins the first of his three world championship titles
The SNP achieves a surge in Scottish nationalism, winning eleven seats at Westminster on 30% of the Scottish vote
A terrorist bomb brings down flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland
