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1941 In Scotland
Events from the year 1941 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Ernest Brown until 8 February; then Tom Johnston Law officers * Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper until June; then James Reid * Solicitor General for Scotland – James Reid until June; Sir David King Murray Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison, then Lord Cooper * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Murray, then Lord Gibson Events * 17 January – a German Heinkel He 111 meteorological aircraft is crash-landed on Fair Isle. * 5 February – the cargo ship runs aground on Eriskay. * 12 February – Tom Johnston is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, a post which he holds until the end of the wartime coalition. * 24 February – SS ''Jonathan Holt'' is torpedoed in a convoy off Cape Wrath by German submarine ''U-97'' with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17 January
Events Pre-1600 *38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea. *1377 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. *1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. *1562 – France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain. *1595 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. 1601–1900 *1608 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. *1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the " Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clydebank
Clydebank ( gd, Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Bowling and Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent Glasgow, City of Glasgow immediately to the east. Depending on the definition of the town's boundaries, the suburban areas of Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate either surround Clydebank to the north, or are its northern outskirts, with the Kilpatrick Hills beyond. Shires of Scotland, Historically part of Dunbartonshire and founded as a police burgh on 18 November 1886, Clydebank is part of the registration County of Dumbarton, the Dunbartonshire Lord Lieutenant, Crown Lieutenancy area, and the wider urban area of Greater Glasgow. History Early origins Clydebank is located within the historical boundaries of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde, the Mormaerdom of Lenno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clydebank Blitz
The Clydebank Blitz were a pair of air raids conducted by the ''Luftwaffe'' on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941. The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as The Blitz. The air raids As a result of the raids on the nights of 13 and 14 March 1941, the town was largely destroyed and it suffered the worst destruction and civilian loss of life in all of Scotland. 1,200 people died, 1,000 people were seriously injured, and hundreds more were injured by blast debris. Over the course of the two nights, a total of 439 Luftwaffe bombers dropped in excess of 1,650 incendiary containers and 272 tonnes of bombs. Out of approximately 12,000 houses, only eight remained undamaged — with 4,000 completely destroyed and 4,500 severely damaged. Over 35,000 people were made homeless. Clydebank's production of ships and munitions for the Allies made it a target (similar to the Barrow Blitz). Major targets inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14 March
Events Pre-1600 *1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. *1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion. 1601–1900 * 1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. *1663 – According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book ''Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion. *1674 – The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship ''Wapen van Rotterdam'' being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers. *1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard for breach of the Artic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13 March
Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. 1601–1900 *1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. * 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. *1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins. *1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus. *1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809. *1811 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. *1826 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Byron
Robert Byron (26 February 1905 – 24 February 1941) was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue ''The Road to Oxiana''. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian. Biography He was the son of Eric Byron, a civil engineer, and his wife Margaret Robinson, born in Wembley, London, on 26 February 1905, the only son among three children. He was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1925 in Modern History. At Oxford he took part in the Hypocrites' Club. Byron travelled in 1925 across Europe in a car to Greece, with Alfred Duggan and Gavin Henderson. It led to his first book, and a second was commissioned for Duckworth by Thomas Balston, to be on Mount Athos. He later visited India, the Soviet Union, and Tibet. It was in Persia and Afghanistan that Byron found the subject to match his style of travel writing. He completed his account of ''The Road to Oxiana'' in Beijing, his temporary home. His innovation, that set him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Submarine U-97 (1940)
German submarine ''U-97'' was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' for service during the Second World War. She carried out thirteen patrols during her career, sinking sixteen ships and damaging a seventeenth. She was a member of two wolfpacks. ''U-97'' was sunk on 16 June 1943 while operating in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Haifa. She was depth charged by an Australian aircraft. Construction and deployment ''U-97'' was laid down at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 602. She was launched on 15 August 1940 and commissioned on 28 September under the command of ''Kapitänleutnant'' Udo Heilmann. Serving with the 7th U-boat Flotilla, ''U-97'' completed training in late 1940 and early 1941 before commencing operations. Design German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. ''U-97'' had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath ( gd, Am Parbh, known as ' in Lewis) is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. The cape is separated from the rest of the mainland by the Kyle of Durness and consists of of moorland wilderness known as the Parph. The first road was built in 1828 by the lighthouse commission across the Parph/Durness. This road connects a passenger ferry that crosses the Kyle of Durness with the buildings on the peninsula. Much of the cape is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is used as a military training area, including as live firing range. Areas of it are also designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Landscape Area. Etymology The name Cape Wrath is derived from Old Norse ' ("turning point"), accordingly, ''wrath'' is pronounced (''a'' as in ''cat''), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24 February
Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. *1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. *1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia. * 1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague. * 1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia. * 1582 – With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. * 1597 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia. 1601–1900 * 1607 – ''L'Orfeo'' by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance. *1711 – ''Rinaldo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 February
Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings. *1502 – Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity. * 1502 – Vasco da Gama with 15 ships and 800 men sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. * 1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia. *1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju. 1601–1900 *1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eriskay
Eriskay ( gd, Èirisgeigh), from the Old Norse for "Eric's Isle", is an island and community council area of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland with a population of 143, as of the 2011 census. It lies between South Uist and Barra and is connected to South Uist by a causeway which was opened in 2001. In the same year Ceann a' Ghàraidh in Eriskay became the ferry terminal for travelling between South Uist and Barra. The Caledonian MacBrayne vehicular ferry travels between Eriskay and Ardmore in Barra. The crossing takes around 40 minutes. Geography Although only a small island (about ) Eriskay has many claims to fame that have made the island well-known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the ''Eriskay Love Lilt''; with the Eriskay Pony and the Eriskay jersey (made without any seams). It is the real '' Whisky Galore!'' island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS ''Politician'' ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. On 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
