Timeline of Edinburgh history hosts Armed Forces Day; two giant pandas from China, Yang Guang and Tian Tian, arrive at Edinburgh Zoo 2012: The Edinburgh Agreement between the Scottish Government and the UK Government on the terms of the Scottish independence referendum 2014 is signed in Edinburgh. 2013: To mark the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, a minute's silence for the town's dead was observed at the Mercat Cross on 8 September. 2014: Completion of new tramway between the city centre and Edinburgh Airport Timeline of Edinburgh history This article is a timeline of the history of Edinburgh, Scotland, up to the
Tian Dawei Tian Dawei Tian Dawei (; August 1931 – 12 June 2013) was a Chinese translator and official. He served as vice president of the National Library of China, and was an official in the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Tian was among the first in China who translated the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into Chinese. Tian was born in a high educated family, in 1931, in Beijing, the son of An E (), a poet and translator, and Tian Han, a playwright who wrote the lyrics for "March of the Volunteers" in 1934. In 1936, Tian