Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon
Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki
Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian
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| 1390 | On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland |
| 1406 | On the death of his father, Robert III, James I becomes king of Scotland |
| 1437 | On the death of his father, James I, James II becomes king of Scotland |
| 1460 | On the death of his father, James II, James III becomes king of Scotland |
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| 1488 | On the death of his father, James III, James IV becomes king of Scotland |
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| 1565 | Mary Queen of Scots marries her Catholic cousin, Henry Darnley |
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| 1745 | Charles Edward Stuart marches as far south as Derby, but then turns back |
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| 1893 | The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules |
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| 1895 | Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium |
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| 1988 | A terrorist bomb brings down flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland |
| 1993 | Scottish author Irvine Welsh publishes his first novel, Trainspotting |
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