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Timeline of Scottish History

A timeline of events in Scottish History!. Scroll through a growing chronology of events and click on them for more details and links

A son afterwards David II , born to Buce

During these negotiations with the papal court, a son was born to King Robert at Dunfermline,J who, after a long minority, succeeded his father, under the title of David the Second. It was an event of great joy to the country; and the court poets of the day foretold that, like his illustrious father, the royal infant would prove a man strong in arms, "who would hold his warlike revels amid the gardens of England a compliment, unfortunately, not destined to be prophetic.