Festival and Devolution · event 2 of 10

1950

The Stone of Destiny is taken. Four Scottish students remove it from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day. It turns up at Arbroath four months later.

The Festival and Devolution era

  1. 1947
  2. 1950
  3. 1964
  4. 1995
  5. 1996
  6. 1997
  7. 1999
  8. 2004
  9. 2014
  10. 2023

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