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)
Darien disaster Famines Souters, Shoemakers Guild David Whyt
End of Reformation (1690) St James Fair Riot (1672)
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