27th March

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1306 Robert the Bruce (eighth Earl of Carrick) was crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace, near Perth. Bruce secured Scottish independence from England, militarily, if not diplomatically, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

1625 King James I of England (he was also James VI of Scotland), died. King Charles I ascended to the throne as King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. He later lost the English Civil War and was executed by parliament.

1854 Crimean War:- Britain declared war on Russia.

1863 Henry Royce, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce auto & aerospace companies was born.

1871 Scotland beat England in the first international rugby union match in Edinburgh, at Raeburn Place. Scotland scored two tries and a goal to England's single try.

1880 The Salvation Army uniform was authorized, but the distinctive bonnets for women did not appear until June.

1881 Rioting took place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily promotion of rigid alcohol abstinence by the Salvation Army.

1899 Italian inventor Marconi achieved the first international radio transmission (a Morse Code message) between England and France.

1912 Birth of (Leonard) James Callaghan, former Labour Party leader and Prime Minister from 1976-1979.

1923 The death of Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist and the inventor of the vacuum flask.

1963 The Beeching Report on Britain's railways was published. The report concluded that only half the network's routes carried enough traffic to cover the cost of operating them. Many lines and stations were subsequently closed.

1964 Six months after the ‘Great Train Robbery’ in Buckinghamshire, 20 of the gang were still at large, but the ten who were arrested were found guilty of stealing more than £2.6m from mailbags. They included Ronnie Biggs. Sentences totalled 307 years in jail.

1966 The stolen football world cup was found in south London by a dog called Pickles, whilst it was out for a walk with its owner.

1980 The oilrig platform Alexander Keiland, located 235 miles east of Dundee, overturned in the North Sea killing 123.

1991 David Icke, former footballer, BBC sports presenter and member of the Green Party, announced that he had been "chosen" to save the world.

1994 The future warplane, Eurofighter, made its inaugural flight two years later than expected, at Manching in Germany. Eurofighter is the most expensive combat aircraft built in Europe, and was developed by a consortium of European companies, including British Aerospace.

2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, was sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, about 40 minutes by boat from Plymouth. It was the first of its kind in Europe and the ship soon became a very popular dive site and a source of study for marine life.

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