Wojtek goes to Edinburgh Zoo
1947 · Event
Demobilised in Scotland, the bear is given to Edinburgh Zoo, where Polish veterans visit and throw him cigarettes.
On these timelines: Scotland, United Kingdom (combined), Master
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Reign of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
Around 1947
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)