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:'''1537''': Jane Douglas, Lady of Glamis is burned at the stake for witchcraft and for conspiring to poison King James V. | :'''1537''': Jane Douglas, Lady of Glamis is burned at the stake for witchcraft and for conspiring to poison King James V. | ||
:'''1542''': [[Cardinal Beaton]] is chosen as chief ruler of the city council. On 14 Deceber, the reign of James V of Scotland comes to an end and that of Mary Queen of Scots begins on the 15th | :'''1542''': [[Cardinal Beaton]] is chosen as chief ruler of the city council. On 14 Deceber, the reign of James V of Scotland comes to an end and that of Mary Queen of Scots begins on the 15th | ||
:'''1544''': [[Earl of Hertford]] burns the city; Holyrood Palace and abbey burn | :'''1544''': Henry VIII begins his period of "rough wooing" aimed at imposing the marriage of his son to Mary Queen of Scots. Armies invade from the south and from the sea near Edinburgh. The[[Earl of Hertford]] burns the city; Holyrood Palace and abbey burn | ||
:'''1547''': The English army of | :'''1547''': 10 September: A large English army with naval support beats the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie, to the east of Edinburgh. The English occupy Edinburgh, (though not its castle). | ||
'''1548''': Another English army invades, and fortify at Haddington, a few miles south of Edinburgh. In June, a French army lands at Leith to support the Scots after an agreement that Mary Queen of Scots, (who is still only five years old), would marry Francois, the eldest son of King Henri II of France. The French besiege the English at Haddington. On 29 July, a French fleet rescues Mary Queen of Scots from Dumbarton and takes her to France. | |||
:'''1555''': [[John Knox]] returns from exile | :'''1555''': [[John Knox]] returns from exile | ||
:'''1558''': Riots break out over [[France|French]] prosecution of [[Protestant]]s; the Flodden Wall is complete; Edinburgh's population is now about 12,000; there are 367 merchants, and 400 craftsmen | :'''1558''': Riots break out over [[France|French]] prosecution of [[Protestant]]s; the Flodden Wall is complete; Edinburgh's population is now about 12,000; there are 367 merchants, and 400 craftsmen |
Revision as of 07:56, 12 March 2008
This represents a timeline of the history of Edinburgh, up to the present day.
1-999
Late 1st century: Roman brooch and fine pottery from this period have been found
- c638: 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 kirk is founded
- 960: Edinburgh temporarily falls into Scottish hands
1000-1099
- 1020: Malcolm II permanently annexes Edinburgh to Scotland
- 1074: Refortification of the 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 after.
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"
- c1125: David I founds burgh
- 1128: David I founds Holyrood Abbey
- 1162: Edinburgh is the caput of the Lothian sheriffdom
1200-1299
- 1230: Alexander II founds large 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, 1st Earl of Moray
- 1326-1331: Edinburgh's contribution to Scottish burgh taxes is 15%, half that of Aberdeen
- 1328: A treaty is signed guaranteeing Scottish independence
- 1329: Robert the Bruce makes the town a burgh, and establishes a port at Leith
- 1330: Wall between High Street and Cowgate is first mentioned; the castle is demolished by David II
- 1334: Scotland loses major port of 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 a new tron (weigh beam)
- 1367: David II begins work on major fortifications at the castle
- 1371: David II dies unexpectedly at the castle
- 1384: Duke of Lancaster extorts ransom following end of truce
- 1386: Robert II grants ground for building a tolbooth
- 1387: Five new chapels are added to St Giles' after English damage in 1385; St Giles' is the High Kirk
1400-1499
- 1400: Henry IV attempts to storm castle when Robert III refuses homage
- 1404: Old Corstorphine Parish Church built by Sir Adam Forrester
- 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
c1449: Cordiners (shoemakers) is incorporated
- 1450-1475: There is a defensive wall around the city (The King's Wall)
- 1455-1458: Greyfriars (Franciscan) friary is founded
- 1457: The 508mm siege gun "Mons Meg" is received at castle; there are goldsmiths in the city
- 1458: Edinburgh has one of three supreme courts in the country
Pre-1460: Trinity is a collegiate church
- 1467-1469: St Giles' gains collegiate status, a provost and fourteen prebendaries are established
- 1474-1475: 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
- 1483: The Hammermen (smiths) are incorporated
- 1485: There is a notary in the Canongate; stone tenements appear in the city
- 1490: The Franciscan friary closes
1500-1599
- 1500: Edinburgh pays 60% of Scotland's customs revenue
- 1503: 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 by the English at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9 September = end of reign of James IV. On 10 September James V becomes King of Scotland. Building of a new southern wall begins in Edinburgh.
- 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 enters city with an army, to assert his right to rule; Holyrood Palace is built for him
- 1530: There are 288 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 heretics
- 1535-1556: Edinburgh contributes over 40% of Scotland's burgh taxation
- 1537: Jane Douglas, Lady of Glamis is burned at the stake for witchcraft and for conspiring to poison King James V.
- 1542: Cardinal Beaton is chosen as chief ruler of the city council. On 14 Deceber, the reign of James V of Scotland comes to an end and that of Mary Queen of Scots begins on the 15th
- 1544: Henry VIII begins his period of "rough wooing" aimed at imposing the marriage of his son to Mary Queen of Scots. Armies invade from the south and from the sea near Edinburgh. TheEarl of Hertford burns the city; Holyrood Palace and abbey burn
- 1547: 10 September: A large English army with naval support beats the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie, to the east of Edinburgh. The English occupy Edinburgh, (though not its castle).
1548: Another English army invades, and fortify at Haddington, a few miles south of Edinburgh. In June, a French army lands at Leith to support the Scots after an agreement that Mary Queen of Scots, (who is still only five years old), would marry Francois, the eldest son of King Henri II of France. The French besiege the English at Haddington. On 29 July, a French fleet rescues Mary Queen of Scots from Dumbarton and takes her to France.
- 1555: John Knox returns from exile
- 1558: Riots break out over French prosecution of Protestants; the Flodden Wall is complete; Edinburgh's population is now 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 altars, aisles, and pillars are dedicated to different 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
- 1572 John Knox' Protestant leader dies in Edinburgh on 24 November
- 1573: A pro-Mary garrison is ousted from the castle by the regent, the Earl of Moray
- 1574: The castle's Half-Moon 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 by King James VI - it is the fourth university in Scotland
- 1583: There are an estimated 500 merchants and 500 craftsmen in the city, of which 250 are tailors
- 1586: Skinners and 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: There are twelve roads out of Edinburgh
- 1602: 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 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 logs
- 1613: Lord Maxwell is hanged for the murder of the Laird of Johnstone
- 1614: John Napier discovers logarithms
- 1615: The Earl of Orkney is executed after a rebellion to overthrow James VI
- 1617: Gladstone's Land, 6-storey tenement in Lawnmarket, expanded (built originally in 1550s);
- 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
c1625: Tailor's Hall is built in the Cowgate
- 1628-1636: The Teflfer Wall is built, from the Grassmarket to just beyond Greyfriars
- 1628-1693: George Heriot's Hospital, now a private school was erected to the South of Edinburgh Castle. The hospital was paid for by a gift of £30,000 from George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI.
- 1632: Work begins on Parliament House to house the Parliament of Scotland
- 1633: Charles I visits Edinburgh for his coronation at St Giles' Cathedral, but soon after precipitates a crisis by introducing episcopacy to the Church of Scotland, in the process making Edinburgh a bishopric for the first time.
- 1636: The construction of the Tron Church is begun; the city's population is c.30,000
- 1637: Introduction of new Prayer Book causes riots; a supplication is delivered to remove bishops from the privy council
- 1639: Decisions of Glasgow assembly are ratified
- 1640: Parliament House is completed
- 1641: Sir Robert Sibbald, later the Geographer Royal, is born
- 1642 or 1645: Outbreak of bubonic plague, the last of several outbreaks during the 16th and 17th centuries. Mary King's Close is abandoned
- 1647: A well-known map of the city is drawn by Rothiemay; the Tron Kirk is completed
- 1649: Covenanters execute royalist Marquis of Huntly; the town Corporation buys the area around West Port
- 1650: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, is hanged; the castle surrenders to Oliver Cromwell's men; James Colquhoun builds early [[fire apparatus|fire engines: one for Edinburgh, one for Glasgow
- 1650s: A new church is built in the Canongate
- 1652: A 'journey 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 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. A Botanic Garden is founded at St Anne's Yards next to Holyrood Palace as a 'Physic Garden' for cultivating medicinal plants, by Dr Robert Sibbald (later the first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University) and Dr Andrew Balfour. It is the second oldest botanic garden in Britain after Oxford's (which was founded in 1620).
- 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 stagecoaches run to Glasgow
- 1679: Covenanters defeated at Bothwell Bridge, more than 1,000 survivors are imprisoned in Greyfriars.
- 1681: Robert Sibbald founds Royal College of Physicians, whose patron is the Duke of York; 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 flees
- 1691: Canongate Church built and open for burial.
- 1690s: 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 surgeons, and 33 physicians; other occupations include aleseller, executioner, royal 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 knitters from Haddington are working in Edinburgh
- 1707: Act of Union- The Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments
- 1711: David Hume, philosopher, born
- 1713: The main radial roads into Edinburgh are turnpiked
- 1715: Jacobites fail to take castle
- 1718: Edinburgh Evening Courant newspaper is launched; 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
- 1723: Adam Smith, political economist, born in Edinburgh
- 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 infirmary is opened
- 1733: Alexander Munro, discoverer of lymphatic and 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 ("Bonny Prince Charlie")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 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 (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. Buccleuch Cemetery opened
- 1765: The Glasgow coach now runs daily
- 1766: The competition to design the New Town is won by James Craig
- 1767: Construction of the New Town begins; this will lead to the "Great Flitting" as the middle classes move from the Old Town. The Theatre Royal opens on 9 December 1767, in Shakespere Square, at the east end of Princes Street. The occasion is commemorated in verse by James Boswell. The foundation stone was laid on 16 March 1768.
- 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-post service begins
- 1775: A directory of brothels and prostitutes is published; Edinburgh's estimated population is c57,000
- 1777: 8 legal and 400 illegal 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
- 1786-1788: The South Bridge is built
- 1788: William "Deacon" Brodie leader of a gang of robbers is executed. He is buried at Buccleuch Cemetery; 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". Sir Walter Scott is involved in a riot at the Theatre Royal when some of the audience refuse to stand for the National Anthem.
- 1799: City has access to 3 million litres of water a day
1800-1899
- 1800: Charlotte Square is completed; Stein's large Canongate brewery is built
c1800: 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 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 is begun; Calton Hill observatory is founded by the Edinburgh Astronomical Association
- 1819: Five coaches a day run between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Buccleuch Cemetery is declared full.
- 1820: There are protests at George IV's treatment of Queen Caroline..East Preston Street Cemetery is opened
- 1820: the population is now 138,000
- 1822: King George IV visits Edinburgh and wears the kilt; the first Highland and Agricultural Show takes place
- 1823: The Bannatyne Club is founded by Sir Walter Scott to publish rare works of Scottish interest in history, poetry, or literature. It published 116 volumes before being dissolved in 1861.
- 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: William Burke is tried for murder, to supply bodies for anatomical dissection
- 1829: Burke is hanged and his body given for anatomical dissection
- 1831: The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway opens (known as The Innocent Railway), 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. Warriston Cemetery is opened by the Edinburgh Cemetery Company.
- 1844-1846: The Scott Monument is built
- 1846: The North British Railway company is established, and railways link Edinburgh and London
- 1847: Alexander Graham Bell is born in the city; half of Edinburgh's population attend the funeral of Thomas Chalmers
- 1850: The foundation stone of the Scottish National Gallery is laid; the Holyrood brewery is enlarged for the third time. Robert Louis Stevenson is born in Edinburgh
- 1851: The British Linen Bank head office opens on St Andrews Square, in the New Town
- 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:On 21st June, George Bryce ("The Ratho murderer") was hanged for the murder of Jane Seaton: the last public execution in Edinburgh.
- 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 the 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 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; McVitie's devise ‘digestive biscuits’
- 1896-1900: Abbey brewery built by Robert Younger
1900-1999
- 1901: University appoints its first Professor of Scottish history
- 1902: Waverley Station is complete, covering 70,000 square metres; the North British Hotel opens (later to become the 'Balmoral')
- 1903: The Floral Clock was installed in Princes Street Gardens. Hands were added in 1904, and the cuckoo in 1905.
- 1905: Moray House in Canongate becomes a teacher training centre
- 1905-1906: The "King’s Theatre" is built at Tollcross
- 1907: Work begins on constructing the Edinburgh College of Art
- 1910: First electric trams run
- 1911: Palladium Cinema opens
- 1911-1914: Usher Hall is built
- 1912: La Scala Cinema opens
- 1916: Bank of Scotland has its first female employee
- 1916-1918: 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
- 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 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 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 gains university status
- 1968: The Palladium Theatre fails, and becomes a disco
- 1968-1969: The Royal Bank of Scotland takes over National Commercial Bank of Scotland
- 1969: The 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 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
- 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 Queen
2000-2007
- 2004: The Scottish Parliament Building opens