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• 10,000 BC End of the last Ice Age 7000 BC Mesolithic Age; hunter- gatherers on the island of Rum
• 3500 BC Neolithic Age
• 3100-2600 Bc Neolithic village of Skara Brae (Orkney)
• 3000 BC Chambered tomb of Maes Howe (Orkney)
• 3000-2000 BC Megalithic standing stones at Calanais (Isle of Lewis)
• 2500 BC Great Pyramid built in Egypt
• 2000 BC Bronze Age starts; building of Stonehenge in Wiltshire (giving a historical context)
• 600 Bc Iron Age starts
• 500 BC `Oakbank Crannog' built in Loch Tay
• AD 80 Agricola invades Lowlands of Scotland
• 84 Battle of Mons Graupius
• 122 Hadrian starts building Hadrian's Wall
• 140-180 Antonine Wall in Scotland
• 214 The Romans abandon Scotland
• 297 First reference to `Picti'
• 410 The Romans abandon Britain
• 500 `Scoti' colonise Dalriada (Argyll)
• c.550 St Ninian comes to Whithorn (Galloway)
• 563 St Columba comes to Scotland and the island of Iona
• 603 ikedan, king of Dalriada, defeated by the Anglians
• 638 Angles from Northumbria capture Edinburgh
• 685 Battle of Dunnichen: the Picts defeat the Northumbrians
• 750 Battle of Athelstaneford St Andrew)
• 793 Start of the viking age: raid on the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne
• 795 First viking raid on the island of Iona
• 806 - Monastery of Iona sacked by Norsemen
• c.840 Kenneth mac Alpin unites Pictland and Dalriada as Alba
• A.D. 843 - Kenneth MacAlpin becomes King of Picts and Scots
• 849 Iona abandoned; treasures moved to Dunkeld
• 858 Death of Kenneth I (mac Alpin)
• 860 Norse earldom established in Orkney and Shetland
• 860 - New laws of succession (Tanistry)
• 870 Vikings storm Dumbarton Castle
• 874 Norwegian settlers colonise Iceland
• 875 - Orkney becomes a Norse Earldom
• 890 Vikings storm Dunnottar Castle
• 900 - Donald II dies fighting the Norsemen.Constantine becomes King
• 900-43 Constantin II rules `Scotland'
• 903 - St Andrews becomes the religious capital
• 934 - Athelstan invades from Northumbria
• 1018 -Lothian is permanently incorporated into Scots Kingdom
• 1040 - Death of Duncan, accession of MacBeth
• 1057 - Death of MacBeth in battle at Lumphanan.
• 1093 - Accession of Donald III
• 1097 - Accession of Edgar
• 1099 - Death of Donald III
• 1107 - Death of Edgar
• 1153 - Death of David I
• 1165 - Death of Malcolm IV
• 1214 - Death of William "the lion"
• 1230 - Norweigan expedition to capture the Western isles
• 1237 - Treaty of York. Alexander renounces any claims to territories in England
• 1249 - Death of Alexander II
• 1263 - Battle of Largs