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Date |
Event |
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c4000BC |
Allt Easdeil (Neolithic) |
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c2000BC |
Allt Easdeil (Bronze
Age) |
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c200BC |
Dun Caolis (Iron
Age) |
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6th / 7th C |
Pabbay Stone
(Pictish) |
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7th C |
Sandray (Early
Christians) |
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9th / 10th C |
Kilbarr
Stone (Viking) |
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12th C |
Kingdom of
the Isles |
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13th C |
Lordship of
the Isles |
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15th C |
MacNeils of
Barra |
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16th C |
Donald
Munro's Account of Barra Islands |
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17th C |
Martin
Martin's Account of Barra |
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1745 |
Barra Head,
first piece of Scotland sighted by Bonnie Prince Charlie and his followers
en route to Glenfinnan |
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1746 |
Kelp
industry |
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1750's1758 |
Barra
soldiers in the Canadian War |
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1771-72 |
Emigrations
to Prince Edward Island, Canada |
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1775 |
Barra
soldiers in American War if Independence |
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1783 |
Barra
soldiers disbanded took up grants in Nova Scotia |
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1788 |
Eoligarry
House built |
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1791-92 |
Emigrations
to Prince Edward Island |
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1794 |
Rev. Edward
MacQueen's Account of Barra |
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1795 |
Kisimul
Castle damaged by fire and abandoned |
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1802-03 |
Emigrations
to Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island
A
new start |
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1805 |
St Brendan's
Church, 'Mother Church of Barra' built |
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1816 |
Old Manse
Cuier built |
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1817-28 |
Emigrations
to Cape Breton |
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1825 |
Kelp
industry collapsed |
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1838 |
Bankruptcy
of MacNeil Estates |
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1840 |
Emigrations
to Cape Breton |
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1845-50 |
Period of
famine |
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1849-51 |
Clearances
to Quebec on 'The Admiral' |
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1853 |
'Annie Jane'
wrecked |
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1860's |
Herring
Fishing |
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1879 |
Old School,
Castlebay opened |
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1883 |
Napier
Commission hearings held in Old School, Castlebay |
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1886 |
The Crofting
Act established |
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1889 |
Castlebay RC
Church opened |
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1906 |
St Barr RC
Church opened |
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1909 |
Vatersay
Raid |
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1914 |
4328 people
employed in Fisheries Industry, Castlebay |
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1915 |
Robert
Lister MacNeil claims Chiefship of Clan MacNeil |
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1917 |
Vatersay
Land Raids successful
Vatersay Raiders |
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1923 |
Emigration
to Alberta, Canada |
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1937 |
Kisimul
Castle ruins bought by Robert Lister MacNeil |
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1949 |
'Whisky
Galore' film produced |
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1953 |
Madonna and
Child statue erected on Ben Havel |
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1967 |
Electricity
connected to Barra |
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1975 |
Statue of St
Barr by Margaret Somerville erected |
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Mid 1970's |
Eoligarry
House demolished |
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1990 |
Vatersay
Causeway completed |
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