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• 543: The 12th centuryBishop Jocelyn will later claim Glasgow's monastic church was founded bySaint Kentigern, also known asSaint Mungo, in this year; he also claimed that Kentigern found at Glasgow a cemetery whichSaint Ninian had hallowed^[1]
• 560: Jocelyn claims Mungo/Kentigern made his first bishop in this year

• 1114: Glasgow is a farming village, with amonastic church andwater mill; the reach of Glasgow'sbishops extends toCumbria; the church is elevated to temporarycathedral status by young David ofStrathclyde, laterDavid I
• 1118: Building of a new cathedral begins^[2]
• 1134: The churches ofSaint John and theHoly Sepulchre are in the city; the church ofSaint James is dedicated
• 1136: The cathedral is consecrated in the presence ofDavid I^[2]
• c1150: The Glasgow Fair is an eight-day event
• 1153: The sacking of Glasgow, and devastation of its surrounding countryside, bySomerled, Lord of Argyll.^[3]
• c1175/c1178:William the Lion makes Glasgow anepiscopalburgh of barony, and grants Bishop Jocelyn a charter^[4]
• 1179?-1199?: Bishop givesabbot andconvent ofMelrose a plot of land in Glasgow
• 1199: Death of Bishop Jocelyn^[5]

• 1220s: Early trades in the town includefishermen,millers,bakers,cobblers,painters, andblacksmiths; wooden merchant's houses replace peasant huts
• 1240:Diocesan authorities deeply in debt to bankers fromFlorence; church overSaint Kentigern's grave being added
• 1246:Dominican order (Blackfriars) establish a church.^[6]
• 1258: Work on Kentigern's church complete
• 1274: Diocese includesTeviotdale inDumfries
• 1286: Glasgow Bridge, made of timber, spans theRiver Clyde^[7]
• 1293:Saint Mary's church is in the town
• 1295:Saint Enoch's church is also in the town, and there is a secondwater mill beside the Gallowgate

• 1301:Edward I of England visitsSaint Kentigern's tomb in the town. Edward forces the townspeople to make a giant woodensiege tower and supply 30 wagons to transport it toBothwell Castle to besiege it, along with tools,iron andcoal; the town has trade insalmon andherring
• 1320: There is aSt Thomas's Church in the town, with aFlorentineDean
• c1330-1350: The west end of thecathedral is completed
• 1350: TheBlack Death hits the town^[8]
• 1380-1381: The Black Death hits Glasgow again^[9]

• c1400: Population estimate: 1,500-2,000^[10]
• 1410: The wooden bridge across theRiver Clyde is replaced by an arched stone bridge.^[11]
• 1431:William Elphinstone is born. He later obtained apapal bull for theUniversity of Aberdeen in 1495,^[12] and was involved with the introduction ofprinting to Scotland in 1507^[13]
• 1450: Glasgow is a "burgh of regality"^[14]
• 1451: theUniversity of Glasgow is established bybull ofPope Nicholas V, and founded by Bishop Turnbull, besideBlackfriars monastery^[15]
• 1453: John Stewart, Glasgow's first Provost, appointed^[14]
• 1460: There is agrammar school in the city;^[16]
• 1464: St Nicholas Hospital founded in the city^[17]
• 1471: Provands Lordship, Glasgow's oldest dwelling-house, is built^[18]
• 1475: The Greyfriars (Franciscans) are granted a tenement and lands on the High Street; St Ninian's Hospital is established
• 1478: Other stone houses are built in Glasgow
• 1492:Pope Innocent VIII makes theSee of Glasgow anArchbishopric^[4] – Robert Blackadder is the city's firstarchbishop^[19]

• c1500: Population estimate is 2,500 – 3,000^[10]
• 1504:Plague hits Glasgow; the city is eleventh among Scottishburghs for taxation revenue
• c1510: TheBishop's Palace is extended^[20]
• 1516-1559: The city's craftguilds are incorporated
• 1518: Theuniversity becomes more active
• 1520: Thearchdiocese now includes the formerdiocese ofArgyll
• 1525: James Houston founds the Tron Church
• 1535-1556: Glasgow pays 1.5% – 3% of total Scottish burgh taxes
• 1544: Siege ofcastle;^[21] estimated population is 3,000
• 1556: Estimated population c4,500. Brewing recorded at site that will later becomeWellpark Brewery
• 1560: The burgh of Glasgow is now represented in theParliament of Scotland
• 1570: Andrew Melville rejuvenates the university
• 1574: Plague hits the city again
• c1576: The council mill is rebuilt
• 1579: The city'scathedral is saved from demolition by craftsmen threatening to riot
• 1581: Glasgow pays 66% of upper Clyde customs tax
• 1584: Plague
• 1589: Golf is played onGlasgow Green
• 1593: Emergence of thePresbytery of Glasgow in the new self-governingchurch
• 1594: Glasgow is now fifth in ranking of Scottish burghs, paying 4.5% of export customs

• 1600: Population estimates for the city vary between 5000 and 7500
• 1604: 361 craftsmen work in fourteen trades, including twosurgeons and 213merchants
• 1605: The Trades House and Merchants House combine to form the firsttown council
• 1610: TheGeneral Assembly approves the restoration ofdiocesanepiscopacy in Scotland
• 1611: Glasgow becomes aroyal burgh, with a population of about 7600
• 1615:John Ogilvy, a ScottishJesuit priest, is hanged for sayingMass^[22]
• 1621: Glasgow pays 3%-10% of Scottishcustoms duties
• 1625: The firstquay is built at Broomielaw
• 1626: TheTolbooth is constructed
• 1636: There are 120 students at the university
• 1638:Covenanters at the General Assembly plan to abolish bishops
• 1639: Glasgow the 3rd richestburgh in Scotland, one-fifth as rich asEdinburgh; Hutcheson's Hospital is founded
• 1641:Hutchesons' Grammar School is founded fororphan boys; 50 buildings erected in Trongate
• 1645:Montrose enters city, celebrates victories
• 1645-1646: Plague hits city^[10]
• 1649: Glasgow displacesPerth as Scotland's 4th trading centre; pays 6.5% of customs duties
• 1650:Oliver Cromwell enters Glasgow while on a campaign against the Scottish Army^[23]
• 1652: Major fire makes about a thousand families homeless;^[24] an earlyfire engine from Edinburgh helps put out the blaze
• 1655: Glasgow trades incoal, hoops, meal,oats,butter,herring,salt,paper,prunes, timber, and hides:goat, kid, anddeerskins
• 1656: Glasgow is described as a "flourishing city", with "strong stone walls"
• 1659-1665: Bridgegate merchants' house is rebuilt
• 1660: A coal pit is reported in the Gorbals
• 1661: Several pits reported
• 1662: Apost office opens
• 1663: Alexander Burnet is appointedarchbishop^[25]
• 1668: Land is purchased for a newharbour – laterPort Glasgow^[10]
• 1669: Burnet resigns the archbishopric, objects toAct of Supremacy^[25]
• 1670: Glasgow displacesAberdeen andDundee to become Scotland's second trade city
• 1673:Colonel Walter Whiteford opens city's firstcoffee house
• 1675:Magistrates take action against unauthorisedprayer meetings
• 1677: Another major fire hits the city, destroying 130 shops and houses^[26]
• 1678: Firststagecoaches run to Edinburgh
• 1680: The city's population is perhaps around 12,000, with 450 traders, 100 trading overseas
• 1688: BroomielawQuay is reconstructed followingdredging of theRiver Clyde
• 1690 Glasgow is re-chartered as aroyal burgh; the city has an earlyBank of Scotland branch

• 1702: theUniversity of Glasgow has around 400 students
• 1706: Anti-unionists riot;^[27] Glasgow is a majorsmuggling port
• 1707:Act of Union^[28]
• 1710: The city's population is estimated to be 13,000; over 200 shops are open; much of the city is liable to flooding
• 1712: Glasgow owners own 4% of Scottish fleet, 46 vessels
• 1715:Glasgow Courant newspaper first published^[29]
• 1718: Possible date for first Glasgow vessel to sail to America
• 1719:Cotton printing has begun
• 1720: Glasgow's estimated population is 15,000
• 1721-1735: James Anderson builds "Andersontown" (modern-dayAnderston) village
• 1725: Glasgow occupied byGeneral Wade's army; protests and street violence againstliquortax
• 1726:Daniel Defoe describes Glasgow as "The cleanest and best-built city in Britain"; 50 ships a year sail to America
• 1729: TheGlasgow Journal newspaper is published
• 1730: The GlasgowLinen Society is formed
• 1735: The city's ship-owners own 67 ships
• 1736: The first history of Glasgow is published by John McUre
• 1737-1760: A new Town Hall is built west of theTolbooth
• 1738: The Anderston Weavers' Society is formed
• 1740: Approximately 685,000 m oflinen is made in Glasgow, some of which is sent to London. Hugh and Robert Tennent take over theDrygate Brewery
• 1740-1741: The Foulis brothers begin printing
• 1742:Delft pottery is manufactured in the city
• 1743: The Foulis brothers become printers to the university
• 1745:Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) enters the city with his army;^[30]Tennents open a newbrewery in Glasgow
• 1749: Astage coach service opens betweenEdinburgh and Glasgow
• 1750: There are five sugar refineries in the city
• 1751: The John Smith bookshop is established
• 1753: Foulis Academy is established at the university to promoteart anddesign;turnpiking of main roads from Glasgow; the city's involvement in thetobacco trade is reflected in the naming ofVirginia Street
• 1755: The estimated population of Glasgow is 23,500^[27]
• 1757: 2.2 million metres of linen are produced in the city
• 1760: Glasgow enjoys a wave of prosperity; there are 13 professors at Glasgow University
• 1762:Joseph Black discoverslatent heat
• 1763:David Dale opens adraper's shop in the city; regular coaches run from Glasgow toGreenock
• 1769:Tennents brewers is now a large industry;James Watt patents hissteam enginecondenser
• 1771: The Scottish economy is boosted by trade through Glasgow
• 1775: Trade with America in tobacco,sugar, andcotton – the city's prosperity is at its height
• 1776:Adam Smith, a professor at Glasgow University, publishesWealth of Nations^[31]
• 1779: Mobs protest against theCatholic Relief Act
• 1780: The estimated population of Glasgow is 42,000;^[27] the construction of theForth and Clyde Canal is completed
• 1781: Vessels of over 30 tons can now reach Broomielaw Quay
• 1782-1783: TheForth and Clyde Canal enablesgrain from London to easefamine in Glasgow
• 1783: GlasgowChamber of Commerce is founded, it is the first in Britain^[31]
• 1785: Ahot air balloonist flies from Glasgow toHawick in theBorders; the firm of Thomsons is formed as bankers
• 1794:Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens^[32]
• 1796: The Royal Technical College (which will later become TheUniversity of Strathclyde) is founded
• 1798: The Merchant Banking Company of Glasgow fails
• 1799: Demonstrations overbread prices; trade in tobacco andrum declines

• 1800: TheRiver Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200wharves andjetties; there is a largeGaelic community in the city^[33]
• 1800: TheGlasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force^[34]
• 1803:Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow^[35]
• 1807:Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery opens off the high street, adjacent to the then campus ofGlasgow University
• 1809: General Association of Operative Weavers is formed
• 1810-1814: Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics is built in Dobbies Loan
• 1813: Weavers fail in bid for fair wages
• 1814:Glasgow Green is Europe's first public park
• 1815: TheGlasgow Herald is published twice-weekly
• 1817: Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded byThomas Hopkirk and others to establish aGlasgow Botanic Garden^[36]
• 1818:Gas street lights begin to be used in the city^[37]
• 1820: "Radical War"^[38]
• 1825: TheUniversity of Glasgow, still located in the High Street, has over 1200 students and about 30 professors; 10 coaches run toEdinburgh daily
• 1826:Glasgow City Mission, the first City Mission, is established on 1 January by David Nasmith
• 1827: The Argyll Arcade opens^[39]
• 1828:James Beaumont Neilson makes breakthrough iniron-smelting technology; atotal abstinence society is formed
• 1832: The city benefits from increased representation under theGreat Reform Bill
• 1835–1874: TheLiberals represents Glasgow inParliament
• 1836: TheForth and Clyde Canal has increased traffic in goods and passengers
• 1837: Violentcotton-spinners strike;^[38] the leaders are sentenced totransportation^[40]
• 1841:Chartist demonstration is addressed byFergus O'Connor
• 1842: Opening of theEdinburgh and Glasgow Railway andGlasgow Queen Street railway station;^[41]Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location
• 1843:Disruption of theChurch of Scotland^[42]
• 1844: GlasgowStock Exchange opens^[31]
• 1846: Burgh boundaries are more than doubled to 5,063 acres (20.49 km²)^[38]
• 1847: Swedish opera singer,Jenny Lind, performs concerts in the city^[43]
• 1848: 100,000 people gather on Glasgow Green to support Chartists
• 1849:Queen Victoria visits the city;^[44]Buchanan Street railway station opens^[45]
• 1851: Glasgow becomesScotland's largest city, overtakingEdinburgh, with a population of 329,096 over 18% of which were Irish-born^[31] Portland St suspension footbridge is built
• 1851–1854:Victoria Bridge is built at Stockwell Street^[18]
• 1857–1859:St Vincent Street Church is built byAlexander "Greek" Thomson^[46]
• 1859:Loch Katrine water supply is opened byQueen Victoria^[47]
• 1862: Dr Henry Littlejohn becomes the city's first medical officer^[48]
• 1865: DrEdward William Pritchard is the last person to be publiclyhanged in the city, for poisoning his wife andmother-in-law^[49]
• 1866: The last outbreak of Cholera in the city occurs;^[50] the City Improvement Trust clears slums and constructs new roads and buildings
• 1867:Queen's Park F.C. is founded^[51]
• 1868-1870: TheUniversity of Glasgow buildings at Gilmorehill are built to designs byGeorge Gilbert Scott
• 1872:Rangers F.C. is founded;^[52] Glasgow's first tram line is established, running from St. George's Cross to Eglinton Toll^[53]
• 1876:Partick Thistle F.C. is founded^[54]
• 1877:Mitchell Library opens^[55]
• 1883: TheBoys' Brigade is founded^[56]
• 1887:Celtic F.C. is founded;^[57]Glasgow Botanic Gardens management taken over by town council
• 1888:International Exhibition (1888)^[58]
• 1891:City of Glasgow Act extends city boundaries and transfers ownership of theBotanic Gardens to the Corporation
• 1895: Firstcremation in Scotland's firstcrematorium, at the Western Necropolis^[59]
• 1896: Opening of theGlasgow Subway^[60]
• 1897:Partick Thistle F.C. establish their home ground atMeadowside

• 1901:Glasgow International Exhibition^[58]
• 1902: 25football fans die and 587 injured in the firstIbrox disaster;^[61] magistrates attempt to prohibit young women from serving in bars^[62]
• 1903:Charles Rennie Mackintosh designsMiss Cranston'sWillow Tearooms
• 1904: A fire atNorth British Railway premises in Hunter Street kills firefighterWilliam Rae^[63][64]
• 1904: The Kings' and Pavilion Theatres open^[65]
• 1905:Theatre Royal opens
• 1905–1907: TheCaledonian Railway extends the Central Hotel
• 1906–1911: New buildings for theMitchell Library are constructed^[66]
• 1909:Charles Rennie Mackintosh'sGlasgow School of Art opens;^[67]Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match at their newFirhill Stadium
• 1911: International Exposition (Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry) atKelvingrove; Glasgow's population is 785,000
• 1914: Emigration leads to 20,000 housing vacancies in Glasgow
• 1919: Large strike for a 40-hour week: a demonstration turns into a riot known as theBattle of George Square and the Sheriff of Lanarkshire requests military assistance: troops are sent from elsewhere in Scotland and from England while Glasgow soldiers are confined to barracks^[68]
• 1921:Sinn Féiners murder a policeman
• 1923:Grouping of virtually all British railway companies: theCaledonian andGlasgow and South Western Railways are merged into theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); and theNorth British into theLondon and North Eastern Railway (LNER)
• 1925: There are approximately 200 miles (320 km) of tramlines and 1100 trams in and around the city
• 1926: Violence duringGeneral Strike
• 1929:Hogmanay cinema fire causes stampede which kills 69 children in the Glen Cinema (Glasgow has nearly 100 cinemas)
• 1931: TheGlasgow population peaks at 1,088,000 thus becoming Britain's 2nd biggest city; the Dental Hospital inSauchiehall Street is built^[69]
• 1934: Unemployed "Hunger marchers" shunned byRamsay MacDonald;RMSQueen Mary launched^[70]
• 1935: Glasgow's subway becomes electric
• 1936: Overcrowding exists in 29% of Glasgow's houses
• 1937: Citywide automatic telephone dialling becomes available
• 1938: Glasgow hosts theEmpire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 atBellahouston Park
• 1939: World War II: Glasgow naval baseHMS Spartiate opens
• 1940: Bombs in Glasgow hitsMerkland Street subway station, closing the underground for four months, and heavy cruiserHMSSussex while undergoing mechanical repairs keeping it out of service for two years
• 1941: Bombing raids onClydebank: 500 killed
• 1944: Glasgowtrams carry about 14 million passengers
• 1946: Glasgow naval baseHMS Spartiate closes
• 1949:Trolleybuses in Glasgow introduced, condemned by pedestrians as the "whispering death"
• 1950: Eye infirmary demolished
• 1951:Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is formed by merger
• 1952-1955: Union Bank of Scotland absorbed byBank of Scotland
• 1955: Duke Streetprison closed^[71]
• 1958:William Burrell dies and bequeaths theBurrell Collection to the city; Lanarkshire County Council moves its headquarters from Ingram Street toHamilton
• 1960: Glasgow electricBlue Train system starts; Dame Jean Roberts is elected Glasgow's first femaleLord Provost
• 1962: Last route of theGlasgow Corporation Tramways closes
• 1964:University of Strathclyde established;^[72]Beeching closes low-level (Argyle) line
• 1966:Buchanan Street railway station andSt Enoch railway station close^[45][73]
• 1967: Celtic F.C. first British winners ofEuropean Cup; linerQueen Elizabeth 2 launched on the Clyde; trolley-buses withdrawn
• 1969: Last daily steamers from Bridge Wharf
• 1970:M8 motorway andKingston Bridge open
• 1971: 66 Rangers F.C. fans die in thesecond Ibrox disaster;^[61] Government refuse to saveUpper Clyde Shipbuilders
• 1972: Rangers F.C. win1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.
• 1975:British Army tackle rubbish caused by dustmans strike; Glasgow becomes the home ofStrathclyde Region's headquarters; the city sees the start ofBritain's first mass-circulation daily newspaperworkers' cooperative when theScottish Daily News opens in Albion Street in May, as well as the country's first newspaper work-in when it folds after six months
• 1977:Glasgow Subway closes for extensive modernisation (reopening in 1980)^[74]
• 1978: The RevGeoff Shaw, first Convener of Strathclyde Regional Council (and former leader of Glasgow Corporation), dies in office aged 52
• 1979-1980: Low levelArgyle Line re-opens
• 1982:Roy Jenkins winsHillhead by-election for the newly formedSocial Democratic Party
• 1983:Burrell Collection opens;^[75] launch of theGlasgow's miles better campaign
• 1985:Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre opens; Glasgow population is 734,000
• 1988: TheGlasgow Garden Festival hosts this year'sNational Garden Festival and attracts 4.3 million visitors.
• 1989: High number ofpoll tax arrears; St Enoch Centre opens
• 1990: Named asCultural City of Europe;^[76] McLellan Galleries re-opens;Glasgow Royal Concert Hall completed; linerQueen Elizabeth 2 returns to theriver Clyde to mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of theCunard Steam Ship Company; the world'sfirst Robot Olympics takes place in the city
• 1991:Glasgow Women's Library opens^[77]
• 1993:Glasgow Caledonian University established;^[78] opening of the new St Mungo's Museum, the UK's only Museum of Religion, next to the city's 13th centurycathedral;barqueGlenlee is towed back from Spain to the Clyde where she was built in 1896
• 1996: Glasgow Festival of Visual Arts; opening of theGallery of Modern Art in the former Stirling's Library; first Glasgow International Festival of Design
• 1996–1999: Festival of Architecture and Design
• 1997: Opening of new £38 million Clyde Auditorium at theScottish Exhibition and Conference Centre^[79]
• 1999: Glasgow is UK City of Architecture and Design;^[80] Buchanan Galleries open;^[81] millennium celebrations;^[82] The Rt HonDonald Dewar (MP and MSP for GlasgowAnniesland) become the firstFirst Minister of Scotland^[83]

• 2002: Final ofUEFA Champions' League held atHampden Park.Real Madrid beatBayer Leverkusen 2–1.^[84]
• 2002:2002 Glasgow floods: 200 people evacuated fromGreenfield andShettleston, contaminated water supply affects 140,000 residents across the city.^[85]
• 2003: Celtic F.C. reach the2003 UEFA Cup Final inSeville.
• 2004: Fifteen-year-old Scottish boyKriss Donald is abducted, tortured and murdered byScots-Pakistani gang in racially motivated attack.^[86]
• 2004:Stockline Plastics factory explosion, Nine people dead, 37 injured, 15 seriously.
• 2005: The city launches a bid to host the 2014Commonwealth Games.^[87]
• 2006:Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum reopens after its three-year, £27.9million restoration.^[88]
• 2007: Final ofUEFA Cup held atHampden Park on 16 May;^[89] Scotland's first terrorist attack after the Lockerbie bombing fails atGlasgow Airport;^[90] Glasgow awarded2014 Commonwealth Games^[91]
• 2008: Rangers F.C. reach the2008 UEFA Cup Final at theCity of Manchester Stadium but lose 2–0 to Zenit Saint Petersburg;^[92] Harbour Footbridge is completed.
• 2010:City of Glasgow College formed by merger ofCentral College,Glasgow Metropolitan College andGlasgow College of Nautical Studies.
• 2011:Glasgow Subway modernisation works begin with refurbishment ofHillhead subway station.
• 2012: Rangers F.C. enters administration on 14 February and are later liquidated.^[93] They reform and are voted into theScottish Football League Third Division.^[94]
• 2012: Glasgow hosts the preliminaryfootball matches of the2012 Summer Olympics.^[95]
• 2013:2013 Glasgow helicopter crash: Apolice helicopter crashes into the Clutha Vaults pub in central Glasgow, killing 10 and injuring 31.^[96]
• 2014: The National Commemoration for theCentenary of theFirst World War take place in Glasgow, including a service inGlasgow Cathedral, attended by theDuke of Rothesay,Prime MinisterDavid Cameron,First MinisterAlex Salmond,Lord ProvostSadie Docherty and several leaders ofBritish Commonwealth Countries.^[97]Sir Trevor McDonald introduced a number of readings to the 1400 guests. Readings included ones fromKate Adie,Indian High CommissionerRanjan Mathai and Kirsten Fell, a 16-year-old pupil fromDunbar Grammar School^[98]
• 2014: TheGlasgow School of Art library is largely destroyed by a fire.^[67]
• 2014:2014 Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow.^[99]
• 2014: In theScottish independence referendum Glasgow votes 53.5% in favour of Scotland becoming an independent country but the national vote is 55.3% against.^[100]
• 2014:2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash: AGlasgow City Councilbin lorry collides with pedestrians inQueen Street; 6 people are killed and 15 injured.^[101]
• 2016: In theUnited Kingdom European Union membership referendum Glasgow votes 66.6% in favour of remaining in theEuropean Union but the UK-wide vote is 51.9% in favour of leaving^[102]
• 2016: Rangers F.C. play their first game back in the top flight of Scottish Football after being demoted to the bottom tier four years previously due to suffering serious financial difficulties;^[103]
• 2016:Kelvin Hall reopens after its £35million refurbishment as an art and cultural centre.^[104]
• 2018: A second fire breaks out at the Glasgow School of Art which also spreads to surrounding buildings including theO2 ABC.^[105]
• 2018: Glasgow hosts multiple sporting events includingcycling,gymnastics andaquatics as part of the2018 European Championships.
• 2021:COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, is held at Glasgow; Hampden Park hosts four matches, including two involving the Scottish national team, at the delayedUEFA Euro 2020 tournament, in front of reduced crowds due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.

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• John Tait's Directory for the City of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1783. (1871 reprint)
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• Glasgow Directory, Glasgow: McFeat & Co., 1806
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• "Glasgow Lists, 1817".Edinburgh Almanack. Edinburgh.hdl:2027/wu.89038302311.
• David Brewster, ed. (1830)."Glasgow".Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• "Glasgow",Scottish Tourist and Itinerary, Edinburgh: Stirling, Kenney, 1842
• "Glasgow",Lizars' Scottish Tourist, Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1850
• Messrs, Oliver Boyd (1860)."Glasgow and its Environs".Oliver and Boyd's Scottish Tourist. Edinburgh.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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• "Glasgow",Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland, Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1872,OCLC 22141784
• Tourist's Guide to Glasgow, London: T. Nelson, 1887,OL 25501173M

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• "Glasgow",Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910,hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
• Post Office Glasgow Directory for 1912–1913. Glasgow : printed by J. Graham for the letter-carriers of the Post-Office. 1828.
• G. E. Mitton, ed. (1915),Black's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde, London: A. & C. Black

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