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The following is a list of important Scottish dates in history
- 10,000 BC End of the last Ice Age 7000 BC Mesolithic Age; hunter- gatherers on the island of Rum
- 3500 BC Neolithic Age
- 3100-2600 Bc Neolithic village of Skara Brae (Orkney)
- 3000 BC Chambered tomb of Maes Howe (Orkney)
- 3000-2000 BC Megalithic standing stones at Calanais (Isle of Lewis)
- 2500 BC Great Pyramid built in Egypt
- 2000 BC Bronze Age starts; building of Stonehenge in Wiltshire (giving a historical context)
- 600 Bc Iron Age starts
- 500 BC `Oakbank Crannog' built in Loch Tay
- AD 80 Agricola invades Lowlands of Scotland
- 84 Battle of Mons Graupius
- 122 Hadrian starts building Hadrian's Wall
- 140-180 Antonine Wall in Scotland
- 214 The Romans abandon Scotland
- 297 First reference to `Picti'
- 410 The Romans abandon Britain
- 500 `Scoti' colonise Dalriada (Argyll)
- c.550 St Ninian comes to Whithorn (Galloway)
- 563 St Columba comes to Scotland and the island of Iona
- 603 ikedan, king of Dalriada, defeated by the Anglians
- 638 Angles from Northumbria capture Edinburgh
- 685 Battle of Dunnichen: the Picts defeat the Northumbrians
- 750 Battle of Athelstaneford St Andrew)
- 793 Start of the viking age: raid on the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne
- 795 First viking raid on the island of Iona
- 806 - Monastery of Iona sacked by Norsemen
- c.840 Kenneth mac Alpin unites Pictland and Dalriada as Alba
- A.D. 843 - Kenneth MacAlpin becomes King of Picts and Scots
- 849 Iona abandoned; treasures moved to Dunkeld
- 858 Death of Kenneth I (mac Alpin)
- 860 Norse earldom established in Orkney and Shetland
- 860 - New laws of succession (Tanistry)
- 870 Vikings storm Dumbarton Castle
- 874 Norwegian settlers colonise Iceland
- 875 - Orkney becomes a Norse Earldom
- 890 Vikings storm Dunnottar Castle
- 900 - Donald II dies fighting the Norsemen.Constantine becomes King
- 900-43 Constantin II rules `Scotland'
- 903 - St Andrews becomes the religious capital
- 934 - Athelstan invades from Northumbria
- 1018 -Lothian is permanently incorporated into Scots Kingdom
- 1040 - Death of Duncan, accession of MacBeth
- 1057 - Death of MacBeth in battle at Lumphanan.
- 1093 - Accession of Donald III
- 1097 - Accession of Edgar
- 1099 - Death of Donald III
- 1107 - Death of Edgar
- 1153 - Death of David I
- 1165 - Death of Malcolm IV
- 1214 - Death of William "the lion"
- 1230 - Norweigan expedition to capture the Western isles
- 1237 - Treaty of York. Alexander renounces any claims to territories in England
- 1249 - Death of Alexander II
- 1263 - Battle of Largs