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)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)