Timeline
- 2003 – Dalhousie Castle in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, was sold to Von Essen Hotels.
- 1999 – Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie and former Governor General of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, died on 15 July at age 84.
- 1972 – Dalhousie Castle was converted into a hotel.
- 1568 – Laird of Dalhousie fought alongside Mary, Queen of Scots, at Langside, Glasgow, where Mary's army was defeated.
- 1563 – Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed at Dalhousie Castle before continuing to Roslin (Confirmed by the Marie Stuart Society in 2003).
- 1320 – William Ramsay became a signatory to the Declaration of Arbroath in which Scottish Barons appealed to the Pope for aid against English oppression.
- 1314 – On 24 June, William Ramsay joined forces with King Robert the Bruce to defeat Edward II of England at Bannockburn.
- 1296 – King Edward I of England stayed at Dalhousie Castle before the Battle of Falkirk when Sir William Wallace was defeated.
- 1280 – Ramsay Dalhousie (Ramsay de Dalwolsey) built the inner Keep with Vaults and the bottle dungeon.
- 1140–1280 – The Ramsays acquired large estates by marriage to the heiress of the Maules, Norman mercenaries who were employed by King David and thus secured royal grants of land in Midlothian and the Carse of Gowrie.
- 1140 – Simon Ramsay (Simundus de Ramseia), a French nobleman under King David, was the first to land at Dalhousie. The Ramsays became notorious border raiders and for-hire cutthroats.
- 1090 – The Viking and/or his son joined King Malcolm III of Scotland, and survived by robbing the natives.
- 1066 – A Norman Viking, the progenitor of the Ramsay clan, sailed with Duke William II to England, and fought alongside Norman troops at the Battle of Hastings. The Ramsay Black Eagle battle emblem was produced.
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