August 28 1296 - Edward I of England held a parliament at Berwick to which he summoned all Scottish landholders to sign
the Ragman Roll.
August 29 1930 - Island of St Kilda evacuated.
August 30 1870 - Birth of golf course designer Dr Alister Mackenzie; he was responsible for Augusta National and Cypress
Point, among others.
August 30 1991 - Liz McColgan won the World Athletics Championship 10,000 metres in Tokyo by a margin of 20 seconds.
September 1 714 - Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).
September 1 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .
September 1 1719 - Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina
Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy
earlier in 1719.
September 1 1971 - Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the
"leeries", the lamplighters which started in 1718 with oil lamps.
September 1 1985 - Freuchie in Fife won the Village Cricket Cup at Lord's Cricket Ground, the first time a Scottish club
side had played on such hallowed ground.
September 2 1834 - Death of engineer, road, bridge and canal builder Thomas Telford. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
September 3 1650 - Cromwell defeated Scots at Battle of Dunbar.
September 3 1745 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart proclaimed his father as King James VIII of Scotland at Perth.
September 3 1752 - With the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, September 3 1752 became 14 September. Crowds flocked the
streets demanding "Give us back our 11 days."
September 3 1787 - Glasgow weavers riot after their wages are cut. Bricks were thrown at magistrates and soldiers then
opened fire on the rioters, resulting in six being killed.
September 4 1241 - King Alexander III born at Roxburgh.
September 4 1962 - Last tramcar run in Glasgow (to Auchenshuggle).
September 4 1964 - Forth Road Bridge opened by the Queen. At 6,156 feet long and a centre span of 3300 feet, it was the
longest in Europe at that time.