1165
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Ailred of Rievaulx visits Kirkcudbright on the feast of St
Cuthbert (20 March)
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1455
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Kirkcudbright becomes a Royal
Burgh
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1507
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Manxmen under the Earl of Derby damage the town in a raid
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1547
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The town resists an English attack
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1582
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Sir Thomas MacLellan completes MacLellan’s
Castle, the ruins of which still stand in the town centre
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1629
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The new Tolbooth is built
and subsequently added to
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1770
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John
Paul Jones, who later helped found the American navy, is
briefly imprisoned in the Tolbooth
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1792
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Death of Billy Marshall, the Gypsy King, at the age of 120. He
is buried in Kirkcudbright Churchyard
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1881
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The Stewartry Museum Association is founded
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1893
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The Stewartry Museum opens in its present building
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1895
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E.A. Hornel settles in the town
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1915
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Jessie M. King and E.A. Taylor leave Paris and settle in
Kirkcudbright
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1931
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Dorothy L. Sayers publishes Five Red Herrings
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1933
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Death of E.A. Hornel
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1941
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Ronald Searle models his St Trinian's Girls on the daughters
of Kirkcudbright artist W. Miles Johnston
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1949
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Death of Jessie M. King
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1950
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The Hornel Art Gallery, Broughton
House, opens
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1957
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The Harbour Cottage Gallery opens
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1993
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