The 107 moments that made Scotland

2. The Wildwood and its fauna c8,500BC

3. Pioneers at Barns Ness, East Lothian, and Cramond c8,000BC

4. The hall at Balbridie on Deeside and the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, c3,000BC

5. Pytheas circumnavigates Scotland c320BC, Calanais, Lewis

6. Mon Graupius 83AD, Hadrian's Wall 117AD, Antonine Wall 142AD

7. Ninian at Whithorn c400

8. Dalriadan influx and Columba at Iona 563AD

9. Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Cuthbert at Melrose c670AD

10. Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses and the Angles 670-700AD

11. Pictish stones and Dunnichen 685AD

12. Vikings drag longship over the isthmus at Tarbet in Argyll

13. The siege and fall of Dumbarton Rock to the Vikings 870AD

14. Constantine climbs the Hill of Faith at Scone, 906AD

15. Battle of Carham on the Tweed 1018

16. King MacBeth in Moray 1050s

17. St Margaret at Dunfermline c1080

18. Four Border abbeys, David I and the wool trade c1130s

19. St Andrews Cathedral c1160 onwards

20. Duns Scotus and the Schoolmen

21. Finlaggan on Islay, the Lordship of the Isles, Somerled c1160

22. Haakon's fleet at Kyleakin, Skye, and battle of Largs 1263

23. Death of Alexander III at Kinghorn, 1286

24. William Wallace and Andrew Moray c1300

25. Bannockburn 1314

26. Bruce's siege of Carlisle 1315 and beginning of Little Ice Age

27. The Black Death, deserted farms c1349

28. St Andrews University 1410

29. Orkney and Shetland ceded by Denmark to Scotland 1469

30. Chepman and Miller set up the first Scottish printing press 1507

31. Flodden 1513

32. Scottish Reformation - a school in every parish, 1560s

33. The Border Reivers, rescue of Kinmont Willie 1593

34. Robert Carey's ride from London to Edinburgh in 1603

35. The making of the King James Bible.

36. The National Covenant at Greyfriars Kirkyard 1638

37. Montrose defeated at Philiphaugh near Selkirk 1645

38. The Killing Times in 1680s, field conventicle at Irongray near Dumfries

39. Massacre at Glencoe 1692

40. Royal Bank of Scotland founded 1695

41. The Darien Scheme

42. The Act of Union, Edinburgh 1707

43. Jacobite Rising 1715, chaotic battle at Sheriffmuir near Perth

44. Modern kilt invented, Lochaber 1723

45. The Ordnance Survey begun

46. Advance of English, retreat of Gaelic

47. Jacobite Rising at Prestonpans, 1745

48. Royal and Ancient Golf Club founded in St Andrews 1754

49. First school for deaf and dumb children established in Edinburgh 1760

50. James Small and invention of the swing plough 1770

51. Enlightenment Edinburgh, Encyclopaedia Britannica at Anchor Close 1771

52. James Watt and steam engine 1771

53. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Kirkcaldy, 1776

54. David Hume, below, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris

55. Highland and Lowland Clearances begin 1780s

56. James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, Siccar Point, Berwickshire, 1788

57. Scotland and the drive for empire

58. The Forth and Clyde Canal dug, Irish navvies, Burke and Hare

59. New Lanark 1783

60. Robert Burns' Tam O' Shanter 1791

61. The False Alarm, threat of Napoleonic invasion 1801

62. Walter Scott, 1810s, start of romantic Scotland and tourism

63. The Scotsman founded 1817

64. George Smith founds the Glenlivet Distillery 1824

65. The growth of Glasgow, snapshot 1825

66. First Reform Act 1832

67. Victoria at Balmoral, John Brown, 1850s/60s

68. The railway boom, the Forth Bridge

69. A Caithness school 1851, 75 per cent of children aged five-15 at school, same in Berwickshire, more than anywhere else in Britain.

70. Irish immigration after the famine, founding of Celtic and Rangers.

71. Scotland in Africa - the Buccleuch panel

72. Victorian sport mania, Scottish Rugby Union founded 1873, first international match between Scotland and England.

73. Scottish America, emigrants' impact - 19th century

74. Battle of the Braes, Skye, 1882, Napier Commission

75. John Watson Nicol composes An Ataireachd Ard (The Surge of the Sea) 1883

76. Robert Louis Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, Treasure Island

77. Scottish Trades Union Congress formed in Glasgow 1897

78. The Discovery sails from Dundee

79. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the Glasgow School of Art

80. 1914-1918 War

81. The building of HMS Hood, Battle of Ypres 1917

82. The sinking of HMS Iolaire off Stornoway 1919

83. Women's suffrage

84. General Strike 1926

85. Hugh MacDiarmid writes A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

86. Ramsay MacDonald Prime Minister, rise of the Labour Party

87. Great Depression in 1930s, three million unemployed

88. Second World War, St Valery, 51st Highland Division captured, skirmish in the air over the Forth

89. The Clydebank Blitz

90. D-Day

91. The first Edinburgh Festival 1947

92. National Health Service founded, Arden House revolutionised

93. Television arrives - 1950s, STV, Grampian, Border TV, BBC.

94. Cumbernauld New Town

95. North Sea Oil licenses granted 1965, Aberdeen, Nigg Bay.

96. Linwood begins production of the Hillman Imp

97. Pop music booms, Lulu, Donovan

98. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, Jimmy Reid, 1971

99. Stop Yer Ticklin Jock! Scottish comedy from Harry Lauder through to Chic Murray to Billy Connolly, right.

100. The rise of the SNP, 1974 elections

101. Scotland at the movies - Sean Connery, Gregory's Girl, Whisky Galore.

102. Scotland's World Cup campaign in Argentina, Ally's Army, 1978

103. Miners' strike 1982, decline of heavy industry

104. Gaelic resurgence, Runrig, announcement of TV service, 1989

105. Glasgow European City of Culture 1990

106. Dolly the Sheep cloned in Edinburgh 1997

107. The Scottish Parliament reconvenes 1999.