: 2007: The Diamond Wedding Anniversary of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, visited Stockton on 18th July 2012 to officially reopen the International White Water Course as part of their Diamond Jubilee tour of the United Kingdom.

The Queen officially opened the General Offices as part of her Diamond Jubilee Tour on 3 May 2012 accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh.

Scottish baseball team, the Edinburgh Diamond Devils, named their home " Bobby Thomson Field.

On Thursday 12th July 2012, HM Queen Elizabeth II and her husband The Duke of Edinburgh visited Victoria Square as part of the West Midland Diamond Jubilee Tour.

Coren adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play called A Lump In My Throat which was performed at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, the Grace Theatre and New End Theatre in London, before Coren adapted it again for a TV play on BBC2 starring Neil Pearson.

On 3 June 2012, the barge carried the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family, in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.

Eastern bongo at Edinburgh Zoo An international studbook is maintained to help manage animals held in captivity.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

His 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The Headmaster's Son is based on his time at The Kings of Wessex School, where his father Keith was the headmaster.

In Scotland is situated the Edinburgh Croquet Club.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the main public hospital for the city.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

The Royal Edinburgh Hospital specialises in mental health ; it is situated in Morningside.

Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

The school is known for having a good disciplinary policy and a number of extracurricular activities like chess, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, tennis, squash, rugby, hockey, football, cricket, athletics, swimming, softball, netball, handball, baseball, rounders, a Duke of Edinburgh program, and martial arts.

The Edinburgh Square ’ s baseball diamond is one of five diamonds in Caledonia, although, at one time, it was the only baseball diamond in Caledonia.

In Edinburgh Hibernian were founded in 1875 and in 1909 another club with Irish links, Dundee United, was formed.

By 1642, the first official skating club, The Skating Club Of Edinburgh, was born, and, in 1763, the world saw its first official speed skating race, on the Fens in England organized by the National Ice Skating Association.

The Blackheath club also organised the world's first rugby international ( between England and Scotland in Edinburgh on 27 March 1871 ) and hosted the first international between England and Wales ten years later – the players meeting and getting changed at the Princess of Wales public house.

For the seven subsequent years he worked in Edinburgh, some of his attention being given to a " black and white " style, his practice in which having been partly acquired at a sketch club, which, in addition to Hutchison, included among its members Hugh Cameron, Peter Graham, George Hay and William McTaggart.

Easter Road is a football stadium located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premier League club Hibernian ( Hibs ).

The Duke of Edinburgh is the current President of the club.

At Edinburgh Mackenzie belonged to a literary club, at the meetings of which papers in the manner of The Spectator were read.

* Edinburgh Academicals RFC is founded and is the oldest football club ( all codes ) in Scotland.

* Hibernian FC founded in Edinburgh by Irish immigrants who give the club the Roman name for Ireland.

Having established a tradition of performing at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the club entered the mainstream when its members formed half of Beyond the Fringe, the hugely popular stage revue which toured Britain and America in 1960.

The 1981 revue won the inaugural Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and spawned Fry and Laurie, the first in a long line of popular and successful double acts formed at the club.

Irvine lost 3-0, but the club stood to make in the region of £ 55, 000 from this fixture, and an estimated 2, 000 Meadow fans made the journey to Edinburgh.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club ( more commonly known as Hearts ) are a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie, in the west of Edinburgh.

Led by captain Tom Purdie the club played its matches in the East Meadows and in 1875 Hearts became members of the Scottish Football Association and were founder members of the Edinburgh Football Association.

The McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial in Contalmaison and the Heart of Midlothian War Memorial in Haymarket, Edinburgh donated to the city by the club in 1922.

* Caledonian Thebans RFC, an Edinburgh gay rugby club named after them

* 1788-The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers requires members to wear club uniform when playing on the links.

The club, founded in 1857 is most noted for the fact that they are the world's oldest club now playing Association football, though the first ever football club to be founded ( playing football of any kind ) was the Foot-Ball Club, founded in Edinburgh in 1824, whose records can be accessed at the National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh.

* Lismore RFC, a rugby club based in Edinburgh.