Dr Craig Buchanan JP FSAScotさんのイラストまとめ

You'd have to say that @cathywilcox1 has pretty well nailed it with this one. #auspol

#OTD 27 December 1794, Alexander Gordon Laing, who would become the first European to reach Timbuktu from the north, was born in Edinburgh. #ScotlandsStory

#OTD 21 August 1689, Jacobite forces supporting the exiled James VII attacked a pro-government regiment of covenanters in Dunkeld, near its Cathedral, in what became known as the Battle of Dunkeld (Scots Gaelic: Blàr Dhùn Chaillinn), destroying much of the town. #ScotlandsStory

#OTD 20 August 1561, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen-Dowager of France, already widowed at the age of 18, returned to Scotland and Holyrood House after an absence in France of some thirteen years. #ScotlandsStory

#OTD 17 August 1922, the Royal Irish Constabulary was disbanded, to be replaced by the Garda Síochána. #IrelandsStory

#OTD 14 August 1598, Hugh O'Neill won a decisive victory against the English at the Battle of Yellow Ford (Gaelic: Cath Bhéal-an-Átha-Buí) two miles outside Armagh, near the river Callan on the route to the river Blackwater. #IrelandsStory

#OTD 22 July 1817, William Sadler made the first recorded balloon crossing of the Irish Sea, from Dublin to Anglesey. His father (pictured) had been a hot air balloon enthusiast and pioneer for some years prior. #IrelandsStory

#OTD 20 July 1616, Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Baron Dungannon and 2nd Earl of Tyrone, died in Rome. He led an unsuccessful rising against the English, and was eventually forced into exile as part of the "Flight of Earls." #IrelandsStory

#OTD 24 June 1850, Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, soldier and statesman, was born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. #IrelandsStory

#OTD 16 June 1338, the English abandoned their five-month-long seige of Dunbar Castle, whose defence had been famously commanded by 'Black Agnes,' Countess of Dunbar. #ScotlandsStory