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43AD |
Roman invasion of Britain. |
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565AD |
St. Columba "drove away a certain water monster". |
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1057 |
King MacBeth of Scotland is killed. |
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1743 |
The last wolf in Scotland is killed near Loch Ness on the River Findhorn. |
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1755 |
An earthquake in Lisbon causes the waters of Loch Ness to rise towards the town. |
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1822 |
Thomas Telford's Caledonian Canal is opened. The canal joined the lochs of the Great Glen into a 60 mile passage from sea to sea. |
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1868 |
The Inverness Courier reports a curious incident at Abriachan. A huge fish is washed up dead on the beach. It is about 6.5ft long. |
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1871 |
Reported capture of a sturgeon. It had almost broken out of a salmon net and was 7ft long. |
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1916 |
Mr. James Cameron sights an "enormous animal" that surfaced very near him on the loch. |
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1930 |
The "Northern Chronicle" reports "a fish or whatever it was". |
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1933 |
Rupert Gould interviews over 50 eyewitnesses and the following year, publishes 42 sighting reports in his book. |
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1933 |
A Mr. Spicer and his wife spot a strange animal crossing the road & the hotel manageress sees “an enormous animal rolling and plunging”. |
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1934 |
Surgeon Kenneth Wilson claims to have taken an “interesting photograph”. |
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1957 |
Constance Whyte's book is published. She details more than 60 sightings. |
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1960 |
Tim Dinsdale takes a 4min film, which becomes one of the best known pieces of evidence. |
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1960 |
The first full scale scientific investigation. |
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1961 |
The "Loch Ness Phenomenon Investigation Bureau", (LNI) is formed. |
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1972 |
An underwater camera deployed by The Academy of Applied Science, takes what became known as "the flipper photograph”. |
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1970’s |
The Loch Ness & Morar Project is established under the leadership of the naturalist Adrian Shine. |
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1979 |
Loch Ness Exhibition Centre opens. |
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1993 |
3 independent sightings are reported in 1 night on June 17th. |
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1999 |
The Loch Ness 2000 Exhibition Centre (now The Loch Ness Exhibition Centre), designed & narrated by Adrian Shine, is opened by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. |
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2003 |
Local coastguard George Edwards saw a six foot long creature surface for a couple of minutes close to Urquhart castle. "It was dark grey and had rough skin". |
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2005 |
Robbie Girvan saw a 4 feet high head and neck by the loch shore. He said that the "dark green and silvery" creature could only be Nessie. |
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2007 |
Gordon Holmes, a 55-year-old a lab technician from Yorkshire spotted a jet black, 45 feet long, serpent-like creature and captured the creature on film. |
