July 08, 1296
John Balliol (c. 1249 – late 1314), known derisively as Toom Tabard (meaning “empty coat” – coat of arms), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
July 08, 1249
Alexander II (August 24, 1198 - July 08, 1249), king of Scotland, son of William I, the Lion, and of Ermengarde of Beaumont, was born at Haddington, East Lothian, in 1198, and succeeded to the kingdom …
July 09, 1947
Glasgow Zoo, or Calderpark Zoo, was a 99-acre (40 ha) zoological park in Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland.
July 09, 1938
Gas had been used a great deal in the First World War and many soldiers had died or been injured in gas attacks.
July 09, 1867
Queen’s Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the oldest in the world outside England and Wales.
July 09, 1857
Madeleine Hamilton Smith (29 March 1835 – 12 April 1928) was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857.
July 09, 1809
Dr. John O’Donovan born 1809 at Atateemore north of Slieverue he got his early education in Waterford City.
July 09, 1797
Edmund Burke ( 12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher.
July 09, 1790
James Bernard (8 December 1729 – 7 July 1790) was an Irish politician and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.
July 09, 1787
Taliesin Williams was a key figure in his own right in the Welsh linguistic and cultural revival of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
July 09, 1751
In 1745 Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon and man-midwife, founded the original Dublin Lying-In Hospital as a maternity training hospital, the first of its kind.
July 10, 1921
Bloody Sunday or Belfast’s Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 10 July 1921, during the Irish War of Independence.
