* March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing 16 infant school pupils and one teacher before fatally shooting himself.

* In England, Wales and Scotland, the private ownership of most handguns was banned in 1997 following a gun massacre at a school in Dunblane and an earlier gun massacre in Hungerford in which the combined deaths was 35 and injured 30.

* Thomas Watt Hamilton ( 1952 – 1996 ), Scottish mass killer responsible for the 1996 school shooting known as the Dunblane massacre

# REDIRECT Dunblane school massacre

Dunblane has three primary schools, one 5-18 school and one secondary school.

In 1996, the school was the scene of the Dunblane massacre, in which 17 people were killed.

The streets that encircle the school, Newton Crescent and Ochiltree, named after the Bishop of Dunblane between 1429 and 1447, reflect the rich history in which the school is embedded.

Fed by pupils from the three public primary schools in Dunblane, as well as some of those from Bridge of Allan, Doune, Stirling, and the surrounding areas, this school has a roster of roughly 750 pupils and sixty teachers.

# REDIRECT Dunblane school massacre

During the latter half of the 20th century there were only two incidents in which men holding licensed firearms went on shooting sprees and killed on a large scale, the Hungerford massacre of 1987 and the Dunblane school massacre of 1996 ; each led to strong public and political demands to restrict firearm use, and tightening of laws.

# REDIRECT Dunblane school massacre

Originally written as a tribute to the people who died in the Dunblane school massacre, the song was re-written and all contributions from Geri Halliwell removed after her departure from the group.

He is reported to have " barked down " some of the more extreme proposals to deal with the threat of school shootings after the Dunblane massacre in 1996.

# REDIRECT Dunblane school massacre

The Dunblane massacre in Scotland in 1996 was followed by the Firearms ( Amendment ) Act 1997, which effectively banned all but. 22 pistols ; and then, after the Labour government led by Tony Blair came into power, the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997 was introduced, which effectively banned the private possession of all modern pistols, even for competitive sporting purposes.

It remains, along with the 1996 Dunblane massacre and the 2010 Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history.

Ballard professed an interest in the Hungerford massacre and other " pointless crimes " such as that in Dunblane and the murder of Jill Dando.

It remains, along with the Dunblane massacre and Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history.

He was a lead campaigner for gun control following the Dunblane massacre in 1996, and it was reported that he once asked the Tory MP Andrew Mackay to " step outside for a fight ".

Gray made his maiden speech on 11 June 1997, in which he spoke of his constituency's largest town of Chippenham, and of his sadness at the massacre in his childhood home town of Dunblane.

Following the Dunblane massacre, the government passed the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997, banning private ownership of handguns almost completely, although the official inquiry, known as the Cullen Inquiry, had not recommended this.

Six weeks after the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, this mass killing at the notorious former convict prison at Port Arthur horrified the Australian public and had powerful political consequences.

In 1996 and with the consent of Bob Dylan, Scottish musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre.

Events following the tragic Dunblane massacre in 1996 are well documented, but public awareness to the consequences affecting people working in the gun trade was less forthcoming.

Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 ( uncovered along with another bearing the date 1551 ) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.

The senior football team, Stirling Albion, play in the Scottish Football League Second Division at their home ground of the Doubletree Dunblane Stadium.

The village is on a traditional east / west route from Dunblane to Aberfoyle and was planned and founded at the end of the seventeenth century.

Houses are named for him at The High School of Glasgow and HM Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.

It runs from the outskirts of Edinburgh, bypassing the towns of Linlithgow, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stirling to end at Dunblane.

At Stirling it meets the M80, taking over the main route through the Carse of Lecropt to the final roundabout at Dunblane.

Dunblane had a population of 7, 911 at the 2001 census, although this was estimated to have grown to 8, 840 by 2006.

He or his followers may have founded a church at Dunblane, or the cult of Bláán may have come there with settlers from what is now Argyll in later centuries.

Dunblane is close to the University of Stirling's campus at Bridge of Allan, and is a popular location for academics.

Equally important is that Dunblane is at the northern end of both the Network Rail Edinburgh-Glasgow rail electrification project.

John Gray, Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and the 1977 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and Dr Sheila Gray who was a GP.

From 1988 to 1990 he conducted the Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster and in 1996 he chaired the Public Inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School.

Some of the collection was originally owned by Newbattle and was stored at the Old Manse, but it is now held in its entirety at The Cross, Dunblane

Hence his term at Dunblane as Bishop and subsequently at Glasgow as Archbishop.

He had already undertaken work at Iona Abbey and Jedburgh Abbey in the 1870s, and now restored Dunblane Cathedral and Paisley Abbey.

The Allan Water at Dunblane

On 13 March 1996 Thomas Watt Hamilton, aged 43, a former Scout Leader, ousted by The Scout Association over five years previously, shot dead 16 children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, in Dunblane Primary School's gymnasium before killing himself.

On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, aged 43, a former scout leader who had been ousted by The Scout Association five years previously, shot dead sixteen young children and their teacher, Gweneth Mayor, in Dunblane Primary School's gymnasium with two Browning Hi-Power 9 mm pistols and two S & W. 357 Magnum revolvers.