Tay Bridge disaster
1879 · Event
The new Tay Bridge collapses in a winter gale as a train crosses, killing all aboard; McGonagall's poem on it is famously bad.
On these timelines: Scotland, Industrial Revolution, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
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