| Year |
Month |
Event |
Description |
Reference |
| 370m
BC |
|
Caithness |
Part
of Lake Orcadie lying 10 degrees south of the Equator. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 2500
BC |
|
Stone
Cairns |
Built
in Caithness. The Camster round cairn is probably the finest
chambered tomb on the British Mainland. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
1850 BC |
|
Abraham
in Canaan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
1250 BC |
|
Moses
in Egypt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
1200 BC |
|
Some
of Moses' followers to Ireland? |
And
then Scotland? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
600 BC |
|
Brochs |
Built
in Caithness |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 515
BC |
|
Second
Temple |
Organised
by Ezra and Nehemiah and 'built with the sword in one hand and
the trowel in the other' |
Andrew
Sinclair |
|
|
|
|
|
| 330?
BC |
|
Pytheas |
Voyages
from the Mediterranean to as far north as Orkney and Iceland |
The
Alban Quest (Farley Mowat) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 50
BC |
|
Diodorus
Siculus |
Wrote
of 'Cope Orcas' which is either Duncansby Head or Dunnet Head. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
c 6
BC |
|
Jesus
born |
|
Tim
Wallace-Murphy |
|
|
|
|
|
| 5 |
|
Caithness |
Mentioned
by the somewhat apocryphal writer Ambrosius Merlin |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
30 |
|
Jesus
crucified |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 43 |
|
Claudius |
Negotiates
a naval non-aggression pact with the Orcadian Chieftains |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 91 |
|
The
Catti invade the North of Scotland in the reign of Emperor
Domitian |
This
tribe from Northern Germany gave their name to Caithness. |
Germania
(Tacitus)
Caithness Events (Thomas Sincalir) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 140 |
|
Ptolemy |
Mentioned
Duncansby Head |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 300 |
|
Ynglingars,
Scots' Norse ancestors |
Leave
Russia for Scandinavia |
Laurel
Fechner |
|
|
|
|
|
| 449 |
|
Saxons
landed in Britain |
Ochtha
and Ebisso with 'forty keels' laid waste to Orkney |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 562 |
|
St.
Columba in Scotland |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| c
630 |
|
Guillermus
(William) Sancto Claro |
The
beheaded Saint William St. Clair from Kent still has his
healing well at St. Clair-sur-Epte in Normandy |
Andrew
Sinclair |
|
|
|
|
|
|
late
600's |
|
King
Ingiald 'Ill Ruler' |
Last
of the Frey - born Yngling pagan sacral 'Peace-Kings of
Uppsala' whose emblem was the moon-crescent-shaped Galley |
|
