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Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines.
Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines. The nationwide firefighters’ strike occurred between 1977 and early 1978, months prior to the Winter of Discontent. …

Joe Corrie, author died in Edinburgh
Joe Corrie, author died in Edinburgh Joe Corrie (13 May 1894 – 13 November 1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working class plays, was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1894. …

The first bombs in WW2 dropped on British soil was in the Shetland Islands
The first bombs in WW2 dropped on British soil was in the Shetland Islands The first German bombs on British soil exploded at Sullom in Shetland on November 13, 1939 - No casualties were inflicted. …

Leonard Boyle, priest and palaeographer, is born in Ballintra, County Donegal
Leonard Boyle, priest and palaeographer, is born in Ballintra, County Donegal Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC (13 November 1923 - 25 October 1999), was an Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography. …

Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson born Edinburgh
Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson born Edinburgh Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child’s Garden of Verses. …

Battle of Sheriffmuir
Battle of Sheriffmuir The Battle of Sheriffmuir took place on November 13, 1715, during the Jacobite Rising of 1715 in Scotland, a force of Jacobites led by John, 6th Earl of Mar, fought an inconclusive battle against a Hanoverian force led by John, 2nd Duke of Argyll. This was at the height of the Jacobite rising in England and Scotland …

Battle of Cnoc na nOs Alasdair MacColla Scottish military leaderdies fighting on Irish side against Cromwells Troops
Battle of Cnoc na nOs Alasdair MacColla Scottish military leaderdies fighting on Irish side against Cromwells Troops The Battle of Cnoc na nOs, also known as the Battle of Knocknanauss, took place on November 13, 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, between Confederate Ireland’s Munster army and an English Parliamentarian army under Murrough O’Brien. …

Charles I appoints James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Charles I appoints James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The appointment of James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Charles I was a significant event during the 17th century. This appointment occurred in the context of the political and religious conflicts that would later lead to the English Civil War. …

King Malcolm III (Canmore), last of the Celtic kings was killed at the Battle of Alnwick
King Malcolm III (Canmore), last of the Celtic kings was killed at the Battle of Alnwick Malcolm III, (c. 1031–13 November 1093) also known as Malcolm Canmore, or “Canmore” (Gaelic ceann mòr, literally ‘big head’, understood as ‘great chief’). He was King of Scotland from 1058 to 1093. …