In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.

The Scottish Maid, 150 tons OM, was the first British clipper ship.

" Scottish Maid was intended for the Aberdeen-London trade, where speed was crucial to compete with steamships.

* 1286 – March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First war of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

* March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828.

It is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, the heir to the Scottish throne who died in Orkney age seven or possibly St. Margaret.

With the death of Alexander III of Scotland in 1286 without a male heir, the throne of Scotland had become the possession of the three-year old Margaret, Maid of Norway, the granddaughter of the Scottish King.

The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290 ( though there is speculation that it may relate to a voyage by the princess's mother in 1281 ).

Daily Mass is now celebrated in this glass chapel, now named Our Lady, Maid of the Seas after the ill-fated aircraft from Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed near the Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.

On his nineteenth birthday in 1855 Hercules Linton was apprenticed to Alexander Hall and Sons who at the time, were the leading shipbuilders in Aberdeen and whose schooner Scottish Maid ( 1839 ) with its sharp bow and entry helped coin the term Aberdeen Bow.

At Highland games, the National Dances are something of a novelty display event and include the Scottish Lilt, the Earl of Erroll, Blue Bonnets, Hielan ' Laddie, the Scotch Measure, Flora MacDonald's Fancy, The Village Maid and Wilt thou go to the barracks, Johnny ?, which illustrate the history of dancing and other aspects of Scottish culture and history.

* Margaret, Maid of Norway ( 1283 – 1290 ), Norwegian – Scottish princess, disputed Queen of Scots

* Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, ( 1226 x 1233 – 1295 ), claimant to the Scottish crown following the death of the Maid of Norway

St Andrews pioneered the admission of women to Scottish universities, creating the Lady Licentiate in Arts ( LLA ), which proved highly popular.

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

It was a Scottish surgeon in the Royal Navy, James Lind who first proved it could be treated with citrus fruit in experiments he described in his 1753 book, A Treatise of the Scurvy, though his advice was not implemented by the Royal Navy for several decades.

Eventually, a third attempt made in 1520 with a large army of French, German and Scottish mercenaries proved successful.

John de Warenne had won a victory over the aristocracy of Scotland at the Battle of Dunbar and his belief that he was now dealing with a rabble proved that he had greatly underestimated the Scottish forces.

When Eadred succeeded to the throne in 946, Northumbrian as well as Scottish loyalties had proved unstable, though nothing is known for certain of the ambitions of rival rulers at this stage.

If it could be proved that a Scottish parliament were desirable ... Scotsmen should support it.

King James IV wanted to build a Scottish navy, but the existing port of Leith proved unsuitable for large warships.

Five months after the couple's death, John Knox, the future Scottish reformer, wrote of them as " innocents ... such as by just laws and faithful witnesses can never be proved to have offended by themselves ".

If Scottish mine owners had hoped to remove a potential labour agitator from their midst by blacklisting Hardie from work in the mines, their action proved to be a major miscalculation.

The 1998 – 99 season proved ultimately disappointing as Celtic finished runners up to rivals Rangers in both the newly established SPL and in the Scottish Cup.

Edward II's unwillingness to pursue the war against the Scots, combined with his refusal to give up his claim on the Scottish crown, proved untenable in the end.

On 28 June, it was reported by Fox Sports Australia that Eddie McGuire said Kewell would be officially presented with a Melbourne Victory shirt when the Melbourne side would face Scottish side Celtic in a friendly at AAMI Park on 13 July, which proved untrue.

2007 – 08 proved somewhat disappointing as they missed out on the play-offs due to finishing sixth, whilst on 31 January 2008, they were thrown out of the Scottish Cup after fielding two ineligible players in their 2 – 1 fourth round replay win over Hamilton Academical.

This body proved to be the biggest mover in favour of the formation of a Scottish assembly, collecting over two million signatures in the late 1940s and early 1950s and attracting support from across the political spectrum.

The ensuing general election in 1979 proved electorally disastrous for both Labour and the SNP, and it seemed that the prospects for a Scottish Assembly were remote.

In 1468 Orkney became part of the Kingdom of Scotland and an influx of Scottish entrepreneurs helped to create a diverse and independent community that included farmers, fishermen and merchants that called themselves comunitatis Orcadie and who proved themselves increasingly able to defend their rights against their feudal overlords.

An influx of Scottish entrepreneurs helped to create a diverse and independent community that included farmers, fishermen and merchants that called themselves comunitatis Orcadie and who proved themselves increasing able to defend their rights against their feudal overlords.

But he proved the critics wrong again and after beating Rangers twice at home, on 22 May 2008, Strachan became only the third ever Celtic manager to guide the club to three consecutive Scottish league titles.

Of mixed Dusun and Scottish ancestry, she had an unusual, striking Emma Peel-like look, dressed in mildly provocative and revealing outfits and proved to be an influential pop music figure whose " sassy, powerful music and image launched a thousand wannabe's ".

He won the Scottish Cup twice in this time along with his third SPL medal, the 2004 – 05 season proved to be Martin O ' Neill's last at Celtic although Stiliyan Petrov would later join him at Aston Villa.

It was Scottish Radio Holdings that proved strong competition in the process, with SRH bidding £ 141m, but failing with an increased offer from the London based business.

The children of the immediate royal family proved to be short-lived, so on the death of James V of Scotland in 1542 the Earl of Arran stood next in line to the Scottish throne after the king's six-day-old newborn baby daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, for whom he was appointed regent.

This decision proved to be controversial, and was criticised by Scottish Labour MP Cathy Jamieson who suggested a link between Souter's knighthood and the large amounts of money he has donated to the Scottish National Party.

The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various island petty kingdoms.

The term had appeared much earlier, however, in the work of the polymathic Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve (" Hugh MacDiarmid ") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a " Scottish Renascence as swift and irresistible as was the Belgian Revival between 1880 and 1910.

Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers such as Barbour and Wyntoun who wrote romance and chronicle verse in octosyllabic couplets and it also perhaps marked something of a departure from the medieval alliterative or troubador traditions ; but one characteristic of poetry by the Makars is that features from all of these various traditions, such as strong alliteration and swift narration, continued to be a distinctive influence.