‘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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21 December

Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie

23 August

William Wallace is brutally executed

22 October

Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye

11 December

Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh

23 July

The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow