Twelfth Century
c.1110: St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh's oldest building, built at Edinburgh Castle
1114: Infant Scottish heir Malcolm is murdered by a priest
1124 or 1127: First documentary evidence of a "church of the community or burgh of Edin"
c.1128: David I founds Holyrood Abbey
c.1130: David I founds the burgh
1162: Edinburgh is the caput of the Lothian sheriffdom
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Edinburgh History
Famous quotes containing the words twelfth and/or century:
“The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping.”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 89–91)
“Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century through death, separation, and other convulsions of an industrializing economy was much more catastrophic than we imagine.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)