Letter: Significant dates

While warmly welcoming the proposed new festival to celebrate Scottish history (your report, 16 August) I would ask if any of the following pieces of Scottish history will be listed as worthy of celebration:

1) The Battle of Carham 1018. The Anglo-Danes finally lost their claim to the land between the Tweed and the Forth. It is as significant as the Battle of Bannockburn.

2) The Act of 1617 establishing the Register of Sasines. Known as Scotland's Magna Carta.

3) The repeal in 1906 by the parliament of Great Britain of the clause, in Article XVI of The Treaty of Union of 1707, guaranteeing the continuance of the Scottish Mint.

Robert M Dunn

Oxcars Court

Edinburgh