Scottish history and its heroes

Scottish history
AD = Anno Domini = Means after Jesus’ birth
BC = Before Christ = Means before the birth of Jesus
BC???-1000: the Picti arrive
BC 1000: Celts arrive in what is to be known as Scotland
BC 60-50: Romans arrive at Great Britten.
AD 70-80: only part of Britain that is free of roman control, will later be known as Scotland
AD 80: Romans, Picti, Celts, and Scots fight but 10 years later the Romans leave Scotland
AD 117: the Romans Enter Scotland again and leave 3 years later, due to losses
AD 122: construction on Hadrian’s wall begins and is finished 3 years later, small fights and raids from the Celts….
Up until 180AD, AD 180-200: the Romans will no longer tolerate the attacks, and they invade Scotland. The Celts…..remember some of their previous defeats and harassed the Romans instead of open battle. And the Romans suffer greatly, before pulling out again
AD 250: The Scots, Picts and Celts, agrees to not fight each other and concentrate on the Romans
AD 304: the Romans try again, and is defeated again.
AD 400: Romans leave for good
AD 400-500: after the Romans leave the tribes fight amongst themselves, and 3 groups emerge as the leading tribes; Picti, Scotii, Britons
AD 500: The scot moved to the highland, and forms a kingdom, and starts to build ships. The Pictii Moved to the Lowland. And the Britons somewhere in the middle of these two.
AD 650-685: the angles that live bordering to the Picti, starts to attack them and to perform raids into the area controlled by the Scots.
AD 685: the battle of Nectansmere that ended up defining the border rough edges of what will be known as Scotland
AD 843: the name Scotland appears the first time, under Kenneth 1.MacAlpin who were the first king of Scotland, which was not much only the Scots and a few other Tribes, the Picti, and Briton were not part yet.
AD 900: The scot manages to conquer the two other Tribes and unite it to the Scotland we know today.
AD 1100-1200: Scotland had been a Tribe like kingdom up until now, but that slowly changes over a hundred years to a feudal kingdom.
AD 1292: Scottish king John Balliol is crowned, but he is not well liked and seeks help from the English Edward 1. This allowed the English to occupy most of Scotland.
AD 1297: William Wallace defeats the English at Stirling, and thereby brings some stability back to Scotland that under John Balliol had returned to the old ways.

The heroes

William Wallace is a famous historical figure. For 700 years ago, he fought for Scotland’s independence and was the leader of his army who attacked England. At last he got captured in London and executed by the English King “King Edward I”. His bravery has since then been an inspiration for Scots and he has a special place in their hearts and minds. There are many monuments placed at important locations from William Wallace’s life and the War of independence. Such as The National Wallace Monument which stands on Abbey Craig, a hill about 2 miles from the city Stirling. It is one of the most impressive sights in Scotland and can be seen from many miles away. It opened in 1869 on the 11th September, which is the same date as the date where the famous Battle of Stirling Bridge took place. You can find Wallace’s sword inside the tower. There is also a lot of statues of William Wallace placed around in Scotland.

Robert the Bruce (born at Turnberry Castle in 1274-1329) was a great hero, but after the film Braveheart about William Wallace, Robert the Bruce turned out to be nothing compared to Wallace.
But beside that Scotland needed patience and cunning, and not the rashes by Wallace.
His view of his nation was truly international. Under the rule of the one who was later to be known as "Good King Robert," Scotland had become the first nation state in Europe, the first to have territorial unity under a single king. And that makes him a hero.
Like many other heroes Robert isn't to forget. He also has many statues around in Scotland, for example at castles, churches and monuments.
His name is built-in in the Dunfermline Abbey Church and inside they have his tomb. But Dunfermline Abbey Church is just one of the many churches that have a sculpture of Robert the Bruce.Not far away at Dumfries Museum they have his skull.

Rob Roy: Robert Roy Macgregor or Rob Roy as he is called was a Scottish folk hero in the 18th century, kind a like a Scottish Robin Hood. A lot of people disagree about who he was and what he did. Some say he stall cows which was very normal at the time, and then he went to jail for that and other say that he was falsely accused. But he went to jail. And while he was in jail, his story was written and he became a living legend.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Biography

Real name: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

Born: May 22. 1859 Edinburgh, Scotland

Family relationship: His father was an alcoholic and not a very good role model. His mother was an excellent storyteller who inspired him to tell his own stories.

He was sent to a Jesuit* boarding school in England when he turned nine. There he discovered his talent for making up stories and telling them to an audience. He was 17 when he graduated.

                      When he returned home, he had to sign the committal papers for his father’s admission. Thereafter Arthur Doyle started to study medicine.

                      A lot of his experiences are later to be found in his novels. Here we can mention Dr. Joseph Bell, a big inspiration for Doyle. A lot of his qualities were later to be found in his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes.

His first famous book called, A Tangled Skein, was later published under the title, A Study in Scarlet, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were introduced. Hereafter he was acknowledged as a famous writer.

His first wife died and he married again. After the death of the first wife, he became more interested in the occult.

                      Hereafter he joined the army for a while and thereafter joined politics, though neither of the two occupations worked out well. He then returned to London to be a writer.

In 1901 he published “The Hound of the Baskervilles” which today is a worldwide sensation. A year later the King, who was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, convinced him to continue on Sherlock Holmes and in 1903 Doyle published “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”.

                      Later his second wife died and he married again. Hereafter he got three children with the new wife who held him occupied for some time.

                     

When The Second World War broke out he tried to volunteer for the military again, but at the age of fifty five he was let down. Hereafter he started a civilian battalion.

                      During the war he lost his son, his brother, two brothers in law and two nephews.

In 1929 he was diagnosed with Angina Pectoris** and went on a “last tour” to Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died Monday 7. July 1930 surrounded by family.

* The Jesuits are some kind of religious catholic gathering

** A heart disease, also known as “Heart Cramps” 

Bibliography

The author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for writing the The Stories of Sherlock Holmes .  Sherlock Holmes was first introduced in thenovel A Study In Scarlet in 1887, where he is presented as the mad , but genius private detective, solving criminal mysteries along with his partner Dr. Watson.   He has made 4 novels who is based on the character, and 6 short story collections. There has been various film and  TV-series, that has been based on the fictional works of Conan Doyle, including the new Guy Ritchie movie, simply known as Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. And Dr. Watson is portrayed by Jude Law.

Besides creating Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has made other non-fictional work, including The Professor Challenger Stories, and various plays.  He has also made non-fictional works on war and the Army, including works on spiritualism.

Sources

http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/biography/index.htm

http://www.jesuitterne.org/

http://www.netdoktor.dk/sygdomme/fakta/anginapectoris.htm

http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/Bibliography/bibliography1.htm#shnovels

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