* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* Adrian Dunbar ( 1958 – ), actor

* 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet ( b. 1872 )

* 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor

* 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English musician ( Frank Zappa )

* 1863 – Helen Dunbar, American actress ( d. 1933 )

* 1650 – Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.

# Ada ( died 1200 ), married Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar ( 1152 – 1232 )

* March 5 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American inventor ( b. 1854 )

* November 30 – The Dunbar wrecked near the entrance to Sydney Harbour, Australia, with the loss of 121 lives.

* June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher ( d. 1906 )

* September 3 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar ( 1650 ).

* April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

( Jan F. Simek, Joseph C. Douglas, and Amy Wallace, " Ancient Cave Art at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area ", Tennessee Conservationist Magazine, September / October 2007, pages 24 – 26 ).

* Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 – 1625, by Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart., Edinburgh, 1899, p. 256.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

* Dame Daisy Dunbar, 8th Btss of Hempriggs ( 1906 – 97 ), cr. 1706

* William Dunbar, medieval poet, 1460 – 1520

For the 2008 – 2009 school year and beyond, a newly built Barber Middle School built off of FM 517 and Dunbar Middle School ( which recently only held the 6th grade ) will now both hold 5th-6th grades.

* Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk ( 1722 – 1799 ), grandnephew of 3rd Earl of Selkirk

* Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk ( 1809 – 1885 )

This independence of action was demonstrated in 1395 – 6 when he responded to Carrick's unauthorised marriage to Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of George, Earl of March by ensuring its annulment.

* Aynsley Dunbar – drums

* Gravely Tractor – Tractors Division, Dunbar, West Virginia, and Albany, Georgia

* Dunbar – A hamlet in the northwest corner of the town.

Cuthbert may have been from the neighbourhood of Dunbar at the mouth of the Firth of Forth in modern-day Scotland, though the lives record he was fostered as a child near Melrose.

During 2003, archaeological excavations at Oxwell Mains ( Lafarge Cement Works ) near Dunbar revealed the site of a Mesolithic house believed to be circa 9th Millennium BC.

Torness nuclear power station is located approximately 30 miles east of the city of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland.

The financial institution was located within the Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments at 2824 Eighth Avenue near 150th Street and serviced a primarily African American clientele.

The description reads: " The first Session was begun by Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow ; Alexander Myln, Abbot of Cambuskenneth, Lord President ; Master Richard Bothuile, Rector of Ashkirk ; Sir John Dingwell, Provost of the Church of the Holy Trinity, near Edinburgh ; Master Henry Quhyte, Rector of the Church of Finhaven ; Master William Gibson, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Restlerig ; Master Thomas Hay, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar, all elected by our Sovereign Lord the King.

When a Republican was elected governor of Tennessee over two decades later, one of the first controversial decisions Winfield Dunn made as governor was to purchase Dunbar Cave, a large cave located near Clarksville, Tennessee that had previously been used as a summertime entertainment venue prior to the advent of air conditioning and owned by Acuff, for a state park.

Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, commanded the right of the Scottish army in the Battle of Neville's Cross, near Durham.

But again the kirk intervened, this time to forbid Leslie to break the Sabbath, and the unfortunate Scottish commander could only establish himself on Doon Hill, near Dunbar, and send a force to Cockburnspath to bar the Berwick road.

Cope's army got supplies from Inverness then sailed from Aberdeen down to Dunbar to meet the Jacobite forces near Prestonpans to the east of Edinburgh.

* May 28-An Alaska Railroad train derails 19 tank cars near Dunbar.

The light was sometimes hard to recognise, for example a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1780 and were wrecked near Dunbar on the night of 19 December 1810 because their navigators had mistaken a lime kiln on the mainland coast for the beacon.

During the two years following the loss of their daughter, Ossian and Gladys lived apart ; he was back at the apartment near Dunbar Memorial and she went to Tucson, Arizona, in order to benefit from the drier climate.

It is located on Dunbar Head, Vaucluse ( approximately 2 km south of South Head ) near the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

The Dunbar CB is nearest to Greencastle, which can be accessed via US 231 north, under the concrete railroad viaduct.

In March 1402 Henry IV appointed Percy royal lieutenant in north Wales, and on 14 September 1402 Percy, his father, and the Earl of Dunbar and March were victorious against a Scottish force at the Battle of Homildon Hill, taking prisoner among others Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas.

Colonel David Dunbar, governor of the Territory of Sagadahock, laid out a town in 1730 known as Townsend, and convinced about 40 families of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, largely from the north of Ireland, to settle here.

On January 11, 1887 at 11: 30 p. m., David Hoffman and James Bell derailed a passenger train 1. 5 miles north of Dunbar.

Whalley took part in Cromwell's Scottish expedition, was wounded at the Battle of Dunbar, and in the autumn of 1650 was active in dealing with the situation in the north.

Montagu campaigned in the north again in 1337, but the siege of Dunbar met with failure.

The regiment under Sir John Cope marched north into the Scottish Highlands but, as he thought the rebel force to be stronger than it really was, avoided engaging the Jacobites then sailed from Aberdeen down to Dunbar to meet the Jacobite forces to the east of Edinburgh at the Battle of Prestonpans which saw the Government forces routed by the Jacobites.

Also just north of the village is a small ruined church that combines medieval and Renaissance features, built in 1627 by Sir John Dunbar.

The Scots were beaten at the Dunbar but while the New Model Army was subduing Scotland north of the River Forth, Charles II led a Scottish army south into England.

* East Coast Main Line running from Edinburgh to the north via Dunbar to Berwick upon Tweed, Newcastle upon Tyne and the south.

840s – 50s: Cinaed mac Ailpin (' Kenneth MacAlpine ') raids Northumbrian Lothian, burning Dunbar and possibly Edinburgh, from his kingdom of the Scots north of the Firth of Forth