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In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.
Sixty gardens took part in Scotland's first Snowdrop Festival ( 1 Feb – 11 March 2007 ).< ref >
He granted the Edinburgh College of Surgeons a royal charter in 1506, turned Edinburgh Castle into one of Scotland's foremost gun foundries, and welcomed the establishment of Scotland's first printing press in 1507.
Following his researches in the Southern Uplands Charles Lapworth also devoted time to mapping near Durness in Scotland's northwest highlands and was first to propose the controversial theory that here older rocks were found lying above younger, suggesting complex folding or faulting as a cause.
Scotland's benefit from free trade within the Union is occasionally overstated, as little attention was paid to Scotland and the economic issues it had in the first several decades after union.
With the intellectual benefits of having established Europe's first public education system since classical antiquity Scottish thinkers began questioning assumptions previously taken for granted ; and with Scotland's traditional connections to France, then in the throes of the Enlightenment, the Scots began developing a uniquely practical branch of humanism to the extent that Voltaire said, " We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.
Included are fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles, the wildlife of the Solway marshes, tools and weapons of the earliest peoples of the region and stone carvings of Scotland's first Christians.
In 1999 Scotland's first multi-institutional university campus was established in Dumfries, in the Crichton estate.
Construction of the modern town of Dalgety Bay as Scotland's first " enterprise town " began around 1962 on the land of the airstrip and much of the remaining ground of the Earls of Moray family seat, Donibristle House.
In the first election for Scotland's new Parliament, the majority of voters surveyed misunderstood some key aspects of the difference there between the " first " ( constituency ) vote and the " second " ( regional list ) vote ; indeed in some ways the understanding worsened in the second election.
Prior to the 2007 elections, the Party had only ever elected one councillor at local level: in May 1990, Roger ( aka Rory ) Winter, representing the Highland Green Party ( Uainich na Gàidhealtachd ), was elected in Nairn as Scotland's first Green regional councillor to the then Highland Regional Council.
Fraserburgh thereafter remained relatively quiet until 1787 when Fraserburgh Castle was converted to Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, Scotland's first mainland lighthouse.
It was originally opened in 1971 as Scotland's first purpose built arts centre, the brainchild of the University's first Principal, Dr Tom Cottrell, who wanted appreciation of the arts to be literally at the heart of the University's cultural ethos.
A scene from Allan Ramsay, and a sketch from Macneill's ballad of Scotland's Skaith, afterwards developed into the well-known Village Politicians, were the first subjects in which his true artistic individuality began to assert itself.
Maryhill did house Glasgow's and indeed Scotland's first ever Gaelic language primary schools, where children are taught in the Scottish Gaelic language only.
Seaman saved two spot-kicks in the tournament ; the first a penalty in normal play from Scotland's Gary McAllister in a group match, while England were 1 – 0 up ( Paul Gascoigne scored soon after to make it 2 – 0 ).
The " home rule " movement for a Scottish Assembly was first taken up in 1853 by a body close to the Conservative Party, complaining about the fact that Ireland received more support from the British Government than Scotland and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing, In 1885, the Post of Secretary for Scotland and the Scottish Office were re-established to promote Scotland's interests and voice its grievances to the British Parliament.
Most of the officers of the Army of the Covenant were veterans of Swedish service brought out of the continental wars to form Scotland's first professional army.
* Andy Strangeway, decorator, first man to visit and sleep on all of Scotland's notable islands
Alexander Christie ( c1721-1794 ) was provost in the town during the 1760s and 1780s and oversaw the establishment of Scotland's first Lunatic Asylum in Montrose in 1781 which became Sunnyside Royal Hospital.
It is also designated as Scotland's first new town in 1947.

Scotland's and referendum
On election night for both the 2005 general election and 2010 general election as well as the 2011 devolved assembly elections, the channel broadcast BBC Scotland's coverage of the Scottish results, while in March 2011 BBC Parliament simulcast BBC Wales's results coverage of the nation's devolution referendum.
An opponent of devolution, which he believed would work to the disadvantage of Scotland's more peripheral areas, in 1978 he was chairman of the " Labour Vote No Campaign ", which called for a " no " vote in the Scottish devolution referendum, 1979 on whether to have a Scottish Assembly.
During the passage of the Scotland Act 1978 through Parliament, an amendment introduced by Labour MP George Cunningham ( a Scottish politician who represented an English seat ) added a further requirement that the approval at the referendum be by 40 % of Scotland's total registered electorate, rather than by a simple majority.

Scotland's and on
The sisters turned the house into one of Scotland's premier tourist attractions after they had to rely on paying visitors to afford the upkeep of the house.
The Silver Sands are located on the East side of the village, and are one of Scotland's seven " Blue flag " awarded beaches, which denotes an exemplary standard of cleanliness, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.
Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.
* Canmore, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland's Canmore database, a searchable database of archaeological and architectural sites in Scotland, including crannogs.
In April – May 2011 House of Pain attended the Groovin ' the Moo touring festival in Australia, and also performed at Scotland's T in the Park Festival on 9 July 2011, as well as Sonisphere UK Festival on 12 July of the same year.
" The Young Pretender " Charles Edward Stuart | Bonnie Prince Charlie began his campaign on Scotland's west coast.
He stressed a social vision that revived and preserved Scotland's communal traditions at a time of strain on the social fabric of the country.
Haggis is traditionally served as part of the Burns supper on the week of January 25, when Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, is commemorated.
In part, however, the apologists of royal authority based their claims on a just assessment of the powers claimed by England and Scotland's medieval monarchs.
* 1779 – 1780, Scotland's coldest winter on record, and ice surrounded Iceland in every direction ( like in the 1690s ).
The Stone Roses were also confirmed to headline Scotland's T in the Park, and the 2012 V Festival, taking place on the 17-18 August in both Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
Due to lack of a clear historical precedent in Scotland's history as a fully separate country before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, there was only one occasion when a similar situation arose, i. e. on the death of the monarch the heir was outside the country and not available to be crowned more or less immediately.
She recruited fighting men from both Ireland and Scotland, transporting the gallowglass mercenaries between their Scottish homes and Irish employers and plundering Scotland's outlying islands on her return trips.
Scotland's aviation industry has long been based in and around Prestwick and its international airport, and although aircraft manufacture ceased at the former British Aerospace plant in 1998, a significant number of aviation companies are still based on the Prestwick site.
The local authority, Perth and Kinross, stated that the 800th anniversary of the city in 2009 should create " a foundation for Perth to bid for formal city status ", it was announced on 14 March 2012, that Perth would become Scotland's seventh city to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The Southern Upland Way passes through the town on its way from Portpatrick on Scotland's west coast to Cockburnspath on the east.
After a protracted campaign South Uist residents took control of the island on 30 November 2006 in Scotland's biggest community land buyout to date.
* Historic Scotland's page on the abbey
* Lead – Scotland's largest leadworks stood on the corner of Mitchell Street and Constitution Street.
It lies on Scotland's northeast coast and had a population of 9, 577 in 2001 census.

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