Give-Away - Win Concert Tickets

WIN one of three double sets of

CONCERT TICKETS

to BEST OF BRITISH

at Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, Concert Hall

on SATURDAY APRIL 17, 2021 at 2.30pm.

valued at $AUS160 per double.

To win two tickets, email scotsnews@iinet.net.au by Wednesday April 7, with ‘competition’ in the subject line, to go into the draw.

IMPORTANT: Winners (and guests) names, phone numbers and email addresses must be provided for COVID tracing to be passed on to Queensland Pops Orchestra and Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

A N N I VE R S A R I E S I N S C O T T I S H H I S T O RY

April

April 1, 1571 - Dumbarton Castle, under siege since January 1570, captured by Captain Thomas Crawford scaling the walls. April 4, 1689 - Scottish Parliament declared that James VII had forfeited the Scottish throne. April 6, 1320 - Declaration of Arbroath - “For we fight not for glory nor for riches nor for honour, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life”. April 12, 1606 - Union flag adopted as the flag of England, Wales and Scotland. April 13, 1951 - The Stone of Destiny, which had been removed from underneath the Coronation Chair by Scottish nationalists on 25 December 1950, was returned to Westminster Abbey after being found at Arbroath Abbey. April 14, 1582 - University of Edinburgh founded. April 17, 1895 - Scotland’s first cremation at Glasgow’s Western Necropolis. April 24, 1567 - First printed book ever published in Gaelic. It was Forms of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Catechism of the Christian Faith, translated from English by Bishop John Carsewell of the Isles. April 24, 1825 - Novelist R M Ballantyne, who wrote 90 books, including The Coral Island, was born in Edinburgh.

May

May 1, 1707 - Act of Union of English and Scottish parliaments proclaimed. May 2, 1316 - Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert the Bruce, crowned High King of All Ireland. May 2, 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Loch Leven castle. May 12, 1725 - The Black Watch regiment was commissioned under General Wade to police the Highlands. May 13, 1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, defeated at Battle of Langside. May 15, 1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, married Earl of Bothwell at 4am. May 17, 1532 - King James V established paid judges to sit as the Court of Session, the highest civil court in Scotland. May 18, 1313 - Robert the Bruce invades Isle of Man. May 20, 685 - Battle of Dunnichen (also known as Nechtansmere), south of Forfar in Angus, as a result of which the Picts stopped the advance northwards of the Angles of Northumbria. May 20, 1303 - France and England make peace, releasing forces to attack Scotland. May 24, 1852 - Robert Cunningham Graham born. Son of a Scottish laird, he organised the Scottish Labour Party with Kier Hardie, wrote over 30 travel books and was elected first president of the Scottish National Party. May 25, 1726 - First circulating library opened in Edinburgh. May 25, 1713 - John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britain’s first Scottish Prime Minister, born. Scots News Magazine April/May 2021