‘explorer’

Event	Date
Fife-born ‘Robinson Crusoe’ dies	13th December
End of the first recorded walk between John O’Groats and Land’s End	21st November
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition embarks on an ambitious voyage	2nd November
Biographer and travel writer James Boswell is born	29th October
Death of adventurer Isabella Lucy Bird	7th October
A Scot puts Greenwich on the map	1st October
Egyptologist James Burton is bron	22nd September
Birth of the coloniser of Nova Scotia	12th September
The man who named Antarctica is born in Edinburgh	22nd March
Explorer David Livingstone is born in Bantyre	19th March

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01 July

Naval hero Admiral Adam Duncan is born in Dundee

09 March

Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations

14 October

Hundreds drowned in the Eyemouth disaster

31 May

Edinburgh’s trams carry their first passengers

17 July

The Bank of Scotland is founded