TIMELINE OF EVENTS
Period Scotland Health Forfar Whyte’s
<1000 Disunited Picts, Scots, Britons, Pictish settlements
Gaels, Saxons & Norse Restenneth, early Christian “church”
1000 Macbeth, Malcolm Canmore Royal Place,
& St. Margaret Occasional Parliament (1057)
David I (1124-53) Sherrifdom of Forfar (1162) Adam the White?
Royal Burgh of Forfar
First church consecrated
Town destroyed by fire (1244)
Edward I stayed in town (1296)
1300 Wars of Independence Bubonic Royal Palace destroyed (1308) Robert Quhyt?
Robert the Bruce (1306-29) plague Restenneth Priory
Declaration of Arbroath (1320) Last Parliament (1372)
1500 Mary Queen of Scots (1542-67) Bubonic End of Restenneth influence
John Knox & Reformation plague Parish church (1591) William Quhyt?
1600 Union of Crowns (1603) Witch hunts
Cordiners Incorporation formed
National Covenant (1625) Typhus Loyal to King Charles I (1647) & against William Quhyt
Charles I (1625-49) the Covenanters
Cromwell (1649-60) Town burned & looted; Burgh Charter destroyed;
Witches burned (1650-62)
Restoration of Charles II (1660) Smallpox ‘Earl of Forfar’ created (1661)
Great (Church) Rebellion (1688) Royal Burgh again (1665); Market Cross (1684)
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Darien disaster Famines Souters, Shoemakers Guild David Whyt
End of Reformation (1690) St James Fair Riot (1672)
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1700 Union of Parliaments (1707) Malaria Thomas Whyt
1715 Jacobite rising Smallpox Many Jacobites in Angus; Episcopalians went
“secret”;
1745 Jacobite rising Fewer Jacobites; Thomas Whyt
David Hume - philosopher Local records destroyed
Adam Smith – philosopher Home weaving industry Patrick Whyte
/ Economist Improved living standards
Agricultural revolution Parish church rebuilt (1791)
1800 Walter Scott - writer Measles Episcopalian church built (1775, 1822, 1879) William Whyte
Diphtheria
Industrial Revolution Tuberculosis End of artisanal industries - weaving, leather, Provost John A Whyte ​
shoes etc. Flax factories & jute industry
1900 World War I Jute industry & Dundee India connection Robert Whyte
World War II Collapse of Jute industry & importance of Dundee John S Whyte
2000 Scottish Parliament re-established John R Whyte