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This article is intended to show a [[List of themed timelines|timeline]] of the history of [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] up to the present day. It shows its rise from an early hill fort and later royal residence to become the bustling city and capital of Scotland that it is today.

==1-999==
Late [[1st century]]: [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[brooch]] and fine [[pottery]] from this period have been found

c[[638]]: The [[Gododdin]] are defeated and the site is captured by [[Edwin of Northumbria]]

[[731]]: Edinburgh is possibly the town of ''Guidi'' mentioned by [[Bede]]

[[854]]: The first [[St Giles Cathedral|St Giles]] [[kirk]] is founded

[[960]]: Edinburgh temporarily falls into Scottish hands

==1000-1099==

[[1020]]: [[Malcolm II]] permanently annexes Edinburgh to Scotland

[[1074]]: Refortification of the [[Edinburgh Castle|castle]] and city begins under [[Malcolm III]]

[[1093]]: [[Queen Margaret]] dies at fort on "hill of Agned", regarded as a royal castle - St Margaret's chapel is built soon afterwards

==1100-1199==

[[1114]]: Infant Scottish [[heir]] Malcolm is murdered by a priest

[[1124]] or [[1127]]: First documentary evidence of a "church of the community or burgh of Edin"

c[[1125]]: [[David I]] founds burgh

[[1128]]: [[David I]] founds [[Holyrood Abbey]]

[[1162]]: Edinburgh is the caput of the [[Lothian]] [[sheriff|sheriffdom]]

==1200-1299==

[[1230]]: [[Alexander II of Scotland|Alexander II]] founds large [[Dominican order|Dominican]] [[friary]]; a [[hospital]] is also open

[[1274]]: Lothian is an archdeaconry of [[St Andrews]]

[[1296]]: Edinburgh is again held by the English, and strongly fortified

==1300-1399==
[[1314]]: [[Edinburgh castle]] captured by [[Thomas Randolph]], Earl of Moray

[[1325]]: [[Robert I|Robert the Bruce]] makes Edinburgh capital of Scotland

[[1326]]-[[1331]]: Edinburgh's contribution to Scottish burgh taxes is 15%, half that of [[Aberdeen]]

[[1328]]: A treaty is signed guaranteeing Scottish independence

[[1329]]: Bruce makes the town a burgh, and establishes a port at [[Leith]]

[[1330]]: Wall between High Street and Cowgate is first mentioned; castle is demolished by [[David II of Scotland|David II]]

[[1334]]: Scotland loses major port of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed|Berwick]] to the English, Edinburgh's importance increases

[[1341]]: Scots regain castle from English

[[1360]]: Edinburgh has almost 4,000 houses, and is regarded as the nation's capital; the castle is the usual royal residence, being strengthened in stone

[[1364]]: David II grants ground for building of new [[tron]] (weigh beam)

[[1367]]: David II begins work on major fortifications at castle

[[1371]]: David II dies unexpectedly at the castle

[[1384]]: [[Duke of Lancaster]] extorts ransom following end of truce

[[1386]]: [[Robert II of Scotland|Robert II]] grants ground for building [[tolbooth]]

[[1387]]: Five new [[chapel|chapels]] are added to St Giles following English damage in 1385; St Giles is High Kirk

==1400-1499==

[[1400]]: [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] attempts to storm castle when [[Robert III of Scotland|Robert III]] refuses homage

[[1437]]: Edinburgh becomes the capital of Scotland

[[1440]]: The [[Earl of Douglas]] and his brother are murdered at the castle by William Crichton

[[1440s]]: Edinburgh has 47% of Scottish [[wool]] trade

c[[1449]]: Cordiners ([[shoemaker|shoemakers]]) is incorporated

[[1450]]: There is a defensive wall around the city

[[1455]]-[[1458]]: Greyfriars ([[Franciscan order|Franciscan]]) [[friary]] is founded

[[1457]]: The 508mm siege gun "[[Mons Meg]]" is received at castle; there are [[goldsmith|goldsmiths]] in the city

[[1458]]: Edinburgh has one of three supreme [[court|courts]] in the country

Pre-[[1460]]: Trinity is a [[collegiate]] church

[[1467]]-[[1469]]: St Giles' gains collegiate status, a [[provost]]] and fourteen [[prebendiary|prebendiaries]] are established

[[1474]]-[[1475]]: [[Skinner (profession)|Skinner]] and [[weaver]] crafts become guilds incorporated by the town council

[[1477]]: All fifteen of Edinburgh's markets are arranged along the length of the High Street

[[1479]]: A [[hospital]] is set up in Leith Wynd

[[1482]]: The Earls of [[Atholl]] and [[Buchan]] agree to free [[James III of Scotland|James III]]

[[1483]]: The Hammermen ([[smith|smiths]]) are incorporated

[[1485]]: There is a notary in the Canongate; stone [[tenement|tenements]] appear in the city

[[1490]]: The Franciscan friary closes

==1500-1599==

[[1500]]: Edinburgh pays 60% of Scotland's [[customs]] revenue

[[1503]]: [[James IV of Scotland|James IV]] marries [[Margaret Tudor]]

[[1505]]: [[Royal College of Surgeons]] founded

[[1507]]: James IV grants a [[patent]] for the first [[printing press]] in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar

[[1513]]: Defeat at [[Battle of Flodden Field|Flodden]] leads to a new southern wall being begun

[[1520]]: Archibald Douglas, [[Earl]] of [[Angus]], seizes control of the city; Edinburgh is the "seat of courts of justice"

[[1523]]: City has fourteen craft guilds

[[1528]]: [[James V of Scotland|James V]] enters city with an army, to assert his right to rule; [[Holyrood Palace]] is built for him

[[1530]]: There are 288 [[brewing|brewers]] known as alewives in the city, one for every forty people

[[1532]]: [[Holyrood Abbey]] is transformed into a royal [[palace]]; the [[Court of Session]] is built

[[1534]]: Norman Gourlay and David Stratton are burnt as [[heretic|heretics]]

[[1535]]-[[1556]]: Edinburgh contributes over 40% of Scotland's burgh [[taxation]]

[[1537]]: Jane Douglas is [[Execution by burning|burnt]] at the [[stake]]

[[1542]]: [[Cardinal Beaton]] is chosen as chief ruler of the city council

[[1544]]: [[Earl of Hertford]] burns the city; Holyrood Palace and abbey burn

[[1547]]: The English destroy Edinburgh again

[[1558]]: Riots break out over [[France|French]] prosecution of [[Protestant|Protestants]]; the Flodden Wall is complete; Edinburgh's population is about 12,000; there are 367 merchants, and 400 craftsmen

[[1559]]: [[John Knox]] is appointed minister of St Giles' church

[[1560]]: English and French troops to withdraw under [[Treaty of Edinburgh]]; [[Reformation]]: 40 [[altar|altars]], [[aisle|aisles]], and [[pillar|pillars]] are dedicated to different [[saint|saints]] in St Giles'

[[1565]]: [[Mary Queen of Scots]] marries [[Lord Darnley]], Henry Stuart

[[1566]]: Mary is held captive in [[Holyrood Palace]]; [[David Rizzio]] is stabbed

[[1567]]: Darnley is assassinated at Kirk o'Field House; [[James Hepburn]] is cleared of the murder

[[1569]]: The city is hit by an outbreak of the [[plague]]

[[1573]]: A pro-Mary [[garrison]] is ousted from the castle by the [[regent]], the [[Earl of Moray]]

[[1574]]: The castle's Half-Moon [[artillery battery|Battery]] is built; there are seven mills in Edinburgh

Late [[1570s]]: Edinburgh now has 4 ministers, previously it had only one

[[1579]]: [[James VI]] makes his state entry

[[1580s]]: There are some 400 merchants in Edinburgh

[[1581]]: [[James Douglas]] is executed for complicity in the murder of Lord Darnley

[[1582]]: The [[University of Edinburgh]] is founded and given a [[royal charter]] - it is the fourth university in Scotland

[[1583]]: There are an estimated 500 merchants and 500 craftsmen in the city, of which 250 are [[tailor|tailors]]

[[1586]]: [[Skinner|Skinners]] and [[goldsmith|goldsmiths]] form their own companies (previously part of the Company of Hammermen)

[[1591]]: Francis Hepburn, [[Earl of Bothwell]] escapes from imprisonment in castle

[[1592]]: Earl of Moray murdered by [[catholic]] [[Earl of Huntly]]; the [[presbytery]] takes the first Edinburgh [[census]]: there are c8,000 adults, split evenly between north and south of the High Street

[[1593]]: Earl of Bothwell take over at Holyrood Palace

[[1594]]: Earl of Bothwell fails to seize city

[[1596]]: Clergy demand arms to defend king and church against "papists"

==1600-1699==

[[1600]]: Gladstone's Land, 6-storey [[tenement]] in Lawnmarket, is built; there are twelve roads out of Edinburgh

[[1602]]: [[Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh|Greyfriars Kirk]] is begun

[[1603]]: The headquarters of the Scottish [[Post Office]] is in Edinburgh - there is another post office in the Canongate; William Mayne makes [[golf]] clubs for [[James VI]];

[[1604]]: The Laird of MacGregor and fourteen others are [[hanging|hanged]] for the Colquhoun massacre

[[1610]]: First factories spring up in Dalry

[[1610]]-[[1621]]: Andrew Hart is a busy [[publisher]]; they publish [[Napier]]'s book of [[logarithm|logs]]

[[1613]]: [[Lord Maxwell]] is hanged for the murder of the Laird of [[Johnstone]]

[[1615]]: The [[Earl of Orkney]] is executed after a rebellion to overthrow [[James VI of Scotland|James VI]]

[[1618]]: Some seven-storey buildings have been built in the city; its [[population]] is c25,000, with about 475 merchants

[[1619]]: The [[privy council]] orders the city to clean up its streets; a [[hospital]] built in [[1479]] becomes a [[workhouse]]

[[1621]]: Edinburgh and [[Leith]] pay 44% of Scottish non-wine [[customs]] [[duty]], and 66% of [[wine]] duty

[[1624]]: Edinburgh is hit by a [[plague]] [[epidemic]]

c[[1625]]: [[tailor|Tailor's]] Hall is built in the Cowgate

[[1628]]-[[1693]]: Heriot's Hospital is built

[[1632]]: Work begins on [[Parliament House, Edinburgh|Parliament House]] to house the [[Parliament of Scotland]]

[[1633]]: Edinburgh is designated a new [[bishopric]]; [[Charles I of England]] offends Presbyterians at crowning ceremony at St Giles' Cathedral

[[1636]]: The construction of the Tron Church is begun; the city's population is c30,000

[[1637]]: Introduction of new Prayer Book causes riots; a [[supplication]] is delivered to remove [[bishop|bishops]] from the [[privy council]]

[[1639]]: Decisions of Glasgow [[church of Scotland|assembly]] are ratified

[[1640]]: Parliament House is completed

[[1641]]: Sir [[Robert Sibbald]], later the Geographer Royal, is born

[[1642]] or [[1645]]: Mary King's Close is abandoned

[[1647]]: A well-known [[map]] of the city is drawn by Rothiemay; the Tron Kirk is completed

[[1649]]: [[Covenanter|Covenanters]] execute royalist Marquis of Huntly; the town Corporation buys the area around West Port

[[1650]]: [[James Graham]], Marquis of Montrose, is hanged; the castle surrenders to [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s men; James Colquhoun builds early [[fire engine|fire engines]]: one for Edinburgh, one for [[Glasgow]]

[[1650s]]: A new church is built in the Canongate

[[1652]]: A 'journey [[stagecoach|coach]]' to [[London]] is introduced - it takes a [[fortnight]] to make the journey

[[1653]]: English forces break up the General Assembly

[[1655]]: A council of state is set up; ministers yield to the English

[[1660]]: A committee of [[states-General|estates]] resumes [[government]] of [[Scotland]]

[[1661]]: Thomas Sydserf produces the first Scottish newspaper; Archibald Campbell, [[Earl of Argyll]], is executed

[[1663]]: The former Covenanter Archibald Johnston is executed

[[1667]]: The privy council empowers magnates to police the [[highlands]]

[[1670]]: Water is piped into the city from Comiston Springs

[[1670s]]: Butchering of animals moves from the Grassmarket to [[Dalkeith]]

[[1671]]: [[John Law]] is born - he set up the national [[bank]] of France.

[[1675]]: Robert Sibbald co-founds physic garden planted at Holyrood

[[1677]]: The first [[coffee house]] opens in the city

[[1678]]: The first [[stagecoach|stagecoaches]] run to Glasgow

[[1681]]: Robert Sibbald founds [[Royal College of Physicians]], whose [[patron]] is the [[Duke of York]]; [[James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair|Viscount Stair]] publishes his ''Institutions of the Laws of Scotland''

[[1682]]: Sir [[George Mackenzie]] founds [[Advocates' Library]] - patron the Duke of York - forerunner to the [[National Library of Scotland]]

[[1688]]: Royal government collapses as [[Chancellor]] [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] flees

[[1690s]]: [[lawyer|Lawyers]] have more wealth than all merchants and craftsmen in the [[burgh]] combined; over 20% of the population is in [[manufacturing]]

[[1694]]: There are more professionals than merchants in Edinburgh; 200 legals (advocates to lawyers), 24 [[surgery|surgeons]], and 33 [[physician|physicians]]; other occupations include aleseller, [[executioner]], royal [[trumpet|trumpeter]], and keeper of the [[signet]]; the ratio of sexes in the city is 70 males:100 females - there are over 5000 domestic servants in Edinburgh

[[1697]]: Thomas Aikenhead is executed for [[blasphemy]]

==1700-1799==

[[1700]]: A severe fire leads to new buildings, built in stone; the estimated population is 60,000

[[1702]]: Advocates' Library moved from Faculty of Advocates to Parliament House

[[1706]]: Framework [[knitting|knitters]] from [[Haddington, East Lothian|Haddington]] are working in Edinburgh

[[1707]]: [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union]]

[[1711]]: [[David Hume]], philosopher, is born

[[1713]]: The main [[radial]] roads into Edinburgh are [[turnpike|turnpiked]]

[[1715]]: [[Jacobitism|Jacobites]] fail to take castle

[[1718]]: ''Edinburgh Evening Courant'' newspaper is launched; [[damask|damasks]] are woven at Drumsheugh

[[1720s]]: [[Daniel Defoe]] praises the [[Royal Mile]], decries [[Tolbooth]] or prison, notes sales of woollens, linens, drapery and ''mercery''

[[1722]]: The Signet Library is founded

[[1726]]: The first circulating library is established; a [[medical school]] at the city's college is founded; [[James Hutton]], geologist, is born

[[1729]]: The city's first [[hospital|infirmary]] is opened

[[1733]]: Alexander Munro, discoverer of [[lymphatic system|lymphatic]] and [[nervous system|nervous systems]], is born

[[1735]]: [[Golf]] is played on Bruntsfield links; also the traditional date the Royal Burgess Golfing Society is founded

[[1736]]: The Royal Infirmary is incorporated; riots shake the city

[[1737]]: The [[Lord Provost]] is ousted following the riots

[[1738]]: Edinburgh is described as the "world's leading medical centre"; John Watson's College is founded

[[1739]]: The [[Scots Magazine]] is first published in the city

[[1740]]: There are four printing firms in Edinburgh; the biographer [[James Boswell]] is born

[[1744]]: The first premises at Fountainbridge are built, with more than five looms

[[1745]]: [[Charles Edward Stuart]] enters the city

[[1746]]: The British Linen Company is formed

[[1747]]: A theatre is established at Playhouse Close in the Canongate

[[1749]]: A [[stagecoach]] service opens between Edinburgh and [[Glasgow]]

[[1750]]: A [[rope|ropery]] is established in the city

[[1751]]: A survey shows a severe state of dilapidation in the Old Town

[[1752]]: Proposals are heard for new public buildings and bridges

[[1753]]: Stagecoach services are introduced to [[London]] (taking two weeks)

[[1754]]: The Select Society is founded

[[1757]]-[[1770]]: Linen weaving works in Canongate

[[1758]]: Stagecoach services are introduced to [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]] (taking one week)

[[1760]]: First school for deaf children opens; the main linen stamping office is in the city

[[1760s]]: Woollen cloth is ''beetled'' in a ''lapping house'' in Edinburgh

[[1761]]: The [[Bruntsfield]] Golfing Society is formed

[[1763]]: Construction of the North Bridge, designed by [[Robert Adam]], begins; a four-horse coach runs to Glasgow three times a week

[[1765]]: The Glasgow coach now runs daily

[[1766]]: The competition to design the [[Edinburgh#New_Town|New Town]] is won by [[James Craig]]

[[1767]]: Construction of the New Town begins

[[1770]]: The British Linen Company switches to banking; the Heriot Brewery starts

[[1770s]]: There are 27 competing printing firms in the city

[[1771]]: [[Sir Walter Scott]] is born

[[1772]]: Construction of the North Bridge is completed

[[1773]] or [[1777]]: [[Penny Black|Penny-post]] service begins

[[1775]]: A directory of [[brothel|brothels]] and [[prostitution|prostitutes]] is published; Edinburgh's estimated population is c57,000

[[1777]]: 8 legal and 400 illegal [[distillery|distilleries]] in the city

[[1781]]: The Mound road is opened

[[1782]]: The voting system is criticised by Thomas McGrugar in "''Letters of Zeno''"

[[1784]]: Meeting discusses corrupt electoral system

[[1785]]-[[1786]]: Stone bridge at [[Stockbridge, Edinburgh|Stockbridge]]

[[1786]]-[[1788]]: The South Bridge is built

[[1788]]: [[William Brodie|William "Deacon" Brodie]] is executed - leader of a gang of robbers; the first stone of Edinburgh University's [[Old College]] is laid

[[1792]]: The Friends of the People Society meets for the first time; Charlotte Square designed by Robert Adam

[[1793]]: [[Thomas Muir]] of Huntershill, a radical reformer, is arrested and sentenced

[[1794]]: Robert Watt, a former spy, is sentenced to death for "Pike Plot"

[[1799]]: City has access to 3 million litres of [[drinking water|water]] a day

==1800-1899==

[[1800]]: Charlotte Square is completed; Stein's large Canongate [[brewery]] is built

c[[1800]]: National Museum of Antiquities is established

[[1802]]: The ''[[Edinburgh Review]]'' is published, offering literary criticism

[[1802]]-[[1806]]: The [[Bank of Scotland]] head office is built

[[1803]]: [[Dorothy Wordsworth]] stays in the "White Hart" inn in the Grassmarket

[[1814]]: A protest meeting against [[West Indies|West Indian]] [[slavery]] is held; two coaches a day run to [[Stirling]]

[[1816]]-[[1819]]: Regent Bridge is built

[[1817]]: [[Coal gas]] supplies are available in the city; coal fires lose popularity; the old [[tolbooth]] in Waterloo Place is demolished

[[1818]]: The [[Union Canal (Scotland)|Union Canal]] is begun; Calton Hill observatory is founded by the Edinburgh Astronomical Association

[[1819]]: Five coaches a day run between Edinburgh and Glasgow

[[1820]]: There are protests at [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]]'s treatment of Queen Caroline

[[1822]]: [[Visit of King George IV to Scotland|George IV visits Edinburgh]] and wears the [[kilt]]; the first Highland and Agricultural Show takes place

[[1823]]: The Bannatyne Club is founded

[[1824]]: A large fire destroys many buildings

[[1825]]: Eight Royal Mail coaches and over fifty stage coaches leave Edinburgh each day

[[1826]]: The [[Royal Scottish Academy]] is founded

[[1828]]: Burke of [[Burke and Hare]] is tried for murder

[[1829]]: Burke is hanged

[[1831]]: The Edinburgh to [[Dalkeith]] railway opens, as railways start to come to the city

[[1832]]: A [[cholera]] outbreak occurs in the city; ''[[The Scotsman]]'' newspaper incorporates the ''Caledonian Mercury''

[[1833]]: The city goes [[bankrupt]]; partly due to the development of [[Leith]] docks

[[1835]]: Edinburgh's New Town is completed, and the Old Town becomes a slum

[[1836]]: The [[Royal Institution]] opens, designed by [[William Playfair]]

[[1840]]: Barnard's Canongate brewery is expanded

[[1841]]-[[1851]]: Donaldson's [[hospital]] for the [[deaf]] is built

[[1842]]: Edinburgh-Glasgow railway line is open to the public

[[1843]]: [[Disruption]] of the [[Church of Scotland]]

[[1844]]-[[1846]]: The [[Sir Walter Scott|Scott Monument]] is built

[[1846]]: The [[North British Railway]] company is established

[[1847]]: [[Alexander Graham Bell]] is born in the city; half Edinburgh's population attend the funeral of [[Thomas Chalmers]]

[[1850]]: The foundation stone of the [[National Gallery of Scotland|Scottish National Gallery]] is laid; the Holyrood brewery is enlarged for the third time

[[1851]]: The British Linen Bank head office opens on St Andrews Square

[[1853]]: The Edinburgh Trades Council is established

[[1856]]: The burgh of Canongate becomes part of Edinburgh

[[1859]]: The National Gallery opens

[[1860]]: Bank of Scotland has 43 branches

[[1861]]: Industrial museum built beside university (now the [[Royal Museum]])

[[1864]]-[[1870]]: Bank of Scotland head office re-designed and extended

[[1865]]: Report on city’s sanitation paints picture of degradation

[[1867]]: Scottish Women’s Suffrage Society holds meetings for first time

[[1869]]: [[Sophia Jex-Blake]] becomes first female medical student

[[1870]]: [[Fettes College]] opens

[[1870]]-[[1879]]: New buildings for the Royal Infirmary

[[1872]]: Watt Institution and School of Arts begins to be built

[[1875]]: Royal Theatre destroyed by fire; Institute of Bankers founded

[[1881]]: Dean Distillery opens, converted from Dean Mills

[[1882]]: City brought to standstill by severe winter weather

[[1883]]: Chair of Celtic established at the university

[[1885]]: Watt Institution and School of Arts merges with George Heriot’s to become [[Heriot-Watt University|Heriot-Watt College]]

[[1889]]: City hit by earthquake; [[Charles Parnell]] granted [[freedom of the city]]

[[1890]]: Free [[public library]] opens to public

[[1892]]: Drybroughs’ brewery moves to Craigmillar; [[McVities]]’ devise ‘[[digestive biscuit|digestive biscuits]]’

[[1896]]-[[1900]]: Abbey brewery built by Robert Younger

==1900-1999==

[[1900]]: Stockbridge gains a library and hall; character actor [[Alistair Sim]] is born

[[1901]]: University appoints its first Professor of [[History of Scotland|Scottish history]]; the [[Royal High School]] has 350 pupils

[[1902]]: [[Waverley Station]] is complete, covering 70,000 square [[metre]]s; the North British Hotel is also built

[[1905]]: Moray House in Canongate becomes a teacher training centre

[[1905]]-[[1906]]: King’s Theatre is built at Tollcross

[[1907]]: Work begins on constructing the [[Edinburgh College of Art]]

[[1910]]: First electric [[tram|trams]] run; Bank of Scotland has 169 branches

[[1911]]: Palladium Cinema opens

[[1911]]-[[1914]]: Usher Hall is built

[[1912]]: La Scala Cinema opens

[[1916]]: Bank of Scotland has first female employee

[[1916]]-[[1918]]: [[Tank|Tanks]] are built by Brown Brothers in the city

[[1921]]: Garrick Theatre burns down

[[1925]]: The [[National Library of Scotland]] is formed from the former [[Advocates’ Library]]

[[1928]]: The [[Flying Scotsman]] provides a fast rail link to [[London]]; the city’s first traffic lights are at Broughton Street

[[1932]]: George Watson’s College moves to Morningside

[[1932]]-[[1935]]: Edinburgh has headquarters for BBC Scotland

[[1936]]:17% of Edinburgh’s houses are overcrowded

[[1939]]: The Bank of Scotland has 266 branches; the headquarters of Edinburgh Savings Bank is built

[[1943]]: The North Scotland Hydro-Electric Board is created, with its headquarters in Edinburgh

[[1946]]: A [[telephone]] upgrade takes place, allowing all-city dialling

[[1946]]-[[1947]]: Electric [[tram|trams]] in the city carry 16 million passengers a month

[[1947]]: The [[Edinburgh International Festival]] is launched; restoration of Canongate

[[1949]]: The Abercrombie Plan introduces ring roads and a bypass

[[1950]]: Tram system begins to be run down

[[1951]]: 2 central (manual) phone exchanges handle over 9,500 lines

[[1952]]: Bank of Scotland takes over Union Bank of Scotland, giving 453 combined branches

[[1956]]: Whole tram system closes

[[1958]]: Queen receives last [[debutante|debutantes]]

[[1959]]: Old Town population declines to 2,000

[[1960]]: Infirmary Street baths are damaged by fire

[[1963]]: ‘’Evening Despatch’’ and ‘’Edinburgh Evening News’’ merge; Empire Theatre becomes [[bingo]] hall

[[1966]]: [[Heriot-Watt University|Heriot-Watt]] gains [[university]] status

[[1968]]: Palladium Theatre fails, and becomes a [[disco]]

[[1968]]-[[1969]]: [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] takes over National Commercial Bank of Scotland

[[1969]]: Bank of Scotland absorbs British Linen Bank; Tollcross Bus Depot closes

[[1970]]: The [[Commonwealth Games]] are held in the city; the St James’ Centre, including a new St Andrews House, is completed

[[1971]]: [[Tom Farmer]] starts [[Kwik-Fit]]

[[1972]]: A [[youth hostel]] opens at Eglington Crescent; Bell’s Mills are destroyed by an explosion

[[1974]]: [[David Murray]], later connected with [[Rangers F.C.|Glasgow Rangers]], starts Murray International Metals

[[1976]]: A new Fountain Brewery is built by [[Scottish & Newcastle]]

[[1980]]: [[Debenhams]] open a Princes St store

[[1980s]]: Restoration of houses in the Old Town leads to a population increase in the area

[[1981]]: Royal Insurance Group headquarters moves to Glasgow

[[1985]]: The population of the city is 440,000; Edinburgh University institutes a Chair of [[Parapsychology]]

[[1989]]: The National Gallery of Scotland is renovated

[[1990]]: [[Edinburgh Castle]] is first, and [[Holyrood Palace]] eighth, in ranking of paid Scottish tourist attractions

[[1996]]: Infirmary St baths close

[[1998]]: The [[Museum of Scotland]] is built

[[1999]]: The [[Scottish Parliament]] is opened by the [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen]]

==2000-2005==

[[2004]]: The [[Scottish Parliament Building]] opens

==See also==
*[[Edinburgh]]
*[[Scotland]]
*[[History of Scotland]]
*[[Timeline of Scottish history]]
*[[Timeline of Glasgow history]]
*[[List of themed timelines]]

==Sources==
*''The Oxford Companion to Scottish History'', ed. Michael Lynch, Oxford University Press, 2001
*''The Making of Scotland'', Robin Smith, Canongate Books, 2001
*''The Hutchinson Encyclopedia'', 1997 ed., Helicon Publishing Ltd, 1996
*''Chronicle of Britain'', Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1992

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