The Church of Scotland separated from the Roman Catholic Church with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, and the split from it of the Scottish Episcopal Church began in 1582, in the reign of James VI of Scotland, over disagreements about the role of bishops.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The island's historic role as a signal station continues today with its high-technology relay stations carrying vital TV, radio, telephone and military communication links between Shetland, Orkney and the Scottish mainland.

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

Macklin performed in Scottish dress, reversing an earlier tendency to dress Macbeth as an English brigadier ; he also removed Garrick's death speech and further trimmed Lady Macduff's role.

* The deer plays a large role in Scottish Gaelic poetry ( fiadh ) of the Highlands of Scotland, where it is seen as a noble creature, and ofter used as a flattering simile or metaphor when used in comparison to a famous warrior, hero or chief.

Pertwee's final film role was in a short film, " Cloud Cuckoo " for Scottish Screen, released on 18 June 1994.

The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.

In terms of tourism, the presence of such historical monuments as Stirling Castle, the National Wallace Monument and other nearby attractions like Blair Drummond Safari Park, the key role which Stirling has played in Scottish history, as well as the scenery of the area, has bolstered Stirling's position as an important tourist destination in Scotland.

Most significantly, Lacy expanded the part of Grumio into the title role Sauny ( who speaks in a heavy Scottish brogue ), which he played himself.

He was depicted as wearing a traditional Scottish kilt and his voice actor Hal Smith ( Harold John Smith, August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994 ), known for his old role as Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show, gave him a thick Scottish accent.

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

Agag moved into the role of managing director, supported by a deputy managing director, Ali Russell, who moved from Hearts in the Scottish Premier League.

In 1873, the Government introduced a bill to abolish the judicial role of the House of Lords in English cases ( Scottish and Irish appeals were to be preserved ).

The tomb front supporting his effigy slab ( but not originally belonging to it ) bears eight niches containing fifteenth-century carved figures of gallowglasses, mercenaries of Scottish origin who played a major role in Irish wars of the Later Middle Ages.

The Scottish term days, which fulfil a similar role as days on which rents are paid, correspond more nearly to the cross-quarter days than to the English quarter days.

Leith has played a long and prominent role in Scottish history.

An actress playing the role of Mary Queen of Scots at a Scottish fair in 2003.

Though Scottish, he turned down the lead role in Whisky Galore!

He also took a role in Scottish and American politics.

Fulton Mackay OBE ( 12 August 1922 – 6 June 1987 ) was a Scottish actor and playwright, known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.

The authority for listing rests with Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, which inherited this role from the Scottish Development Department in 1991.

Mao's nationalist impulses also played a crucially important role in the adaption of Marxism to the Chinese model and in the formation of Maoism.

Calhoun continued his role as a leading nationalist during the " Era of Good Feeling ".

Many tang wai activists framed the Plains aboriginal experience in the existing anti-colonialism / victimization Taiwanese nationalist narrative, which positioned the Hoklo speaking Taiwanese in the role of indigenous people and the victims of successive foreign rulers (; ; ).

Since the start of The Troubles, the celebrations of the battle have been seen as playing a critical role in the awareness of those involved in the unionist / nationalist tensions in Northern Ireland.

* the Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF )— whose role was to carry out attacks on republican and nationalist targets.

Believing that the role of the royal family should transcend partisan politics, his father promoted him to Chief of Butanyerera, but Rwagasore turned down the appointment so that he could devote himself fully to the nationalist cause.

In a study dedicated to the role and use of the Holocaust in Israeli nationalist discourse, Idith Zertal reexamining al-Husseini's alleged antisemitism, states that ' in more correct proportions, should be pictured as a fanatic nationalist-religious Palestinian leader '.

Lon Nol used the crisis to oust the Head of State, Cheng Heng, and took over the role himself, appointing the veteran anti-Sihanouk nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh as Prime Minister.

According to George Khutsishvili, the nationalist " Georgia for the Georgians " hysteria launched by the followers of Gamsakhurdia " played a decisive role " in " bringing about Bosnia-like inter-ethnic violence.

In this role, he experienced considerable problems in Quebec resulting from the fact that he did not speak French, at a time when the NFB's French Program branch was attracting young Quebec nationalist filmmakers.

It has also played an important role in the Spanish Congress, along other regional nationalist parties.

Radical Irish nationalist and trade union leader James Connolly attempted to play a vital role in the British SLP's formative days, energetically traveling back and forth across Scotland, addressing dozens of meetings on behalf of the organisation.

Egyptian women would continue to play an important and increasingly public nationalist role throughout the spring and summer of 1919 and beyond.

Thus, despite the involvement of mestiços in the nationalist struggle beginning in 1961 and their very important role in the upper echelons of the government and party, significant segments of the African population tended to resent them.

The gaucho plays an important symbolic role in the nationalist feelings of this region, especially that of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Borges sees Lugones in El Payador ( 1916 ) as operating in an explicitly nationalist tradition, seeking a national epic to take the role of Don Quixote or the Divine Comedy and render the Argentines a " people of the book ", in a nationalist reflection of religious identity.

Bülent Ecevit began to take on a distinct left wing role in politics and, although remaining staunchly nationalist, tried to implement socialism into the ideology of CHP.

In his polemical history tracing the development of literary criticism and its role in Romanian culture, the 20th century author Garabet Ibrăileanu made ample mention of Kogălniceanu's role in combating nationalist excesses, in particular the post-1840 attempts by Transylvanian and Wallachian intellectuals to change the fabric of the Romanian language by introducing strong influences from Latin or other modern Romance languages.

In the 1970s Mattos Cintrón had written that within the PSP coexisted a " radicalized nationalist petite bourgeois " wing along with the socialist tendency, although for a previous phase this coexistence played a positive role.

To attain this he proposed an increase in universal military service to three years, with new regiments raised and a reduced role for the reserve ( Landwehr ), whose role in the War of Liberation ( 1813 ) was still celebrated in nationalist myth.

Sinn Féin's president, Gerry Adams, denounced the Agreement: "... the formal recognition of the partition of Ireland ... a disaster for the nationalist cause ... far outweighs the powerless consultative role given to Dublin ".