city Edinburgh: All Data

Edinburgh is a city in United Kingdom. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.

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Edinburgh: Chronology of Mentions

Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.

639 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Edinburgh
1296 AD
Mentioned in Event: English invasion of Scotland (1296)
1296 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Edinburgh Castle, part of English invasion of Scotland (1296)
1303 AD
Mentioned in Event: English Fourth Invasion of Scotland
1335 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Boroughmuir, part of Second War of Scottish Independence
1452 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Scotland
1603 AD
Capital of Personal Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland
1642 AD
Capital of Parlamentarians
1650 AD
Mentioned in Event: English invasion of Scotland
1745 AD
Mentioned in Event: Jacobite rising of 1745
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Country of Scotland, part of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland