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 recording sacrifices "yu tian" 于天 "to/at Tian" (which could mean "to Heaven/God" or "at a place called Tian".) The "Shu Jing" chapter ""Tang Shi"" (湯誓 "Tang's Speech") illustrates how early Zhou texts used "tian" "heaven; god" in contexts with "shangdi" "god". According to tradition, Tang of Shang assembled his subjects to overthrow King Jie of Xia, the infamous last ruler of the Xia Dynasty, but they were reluctant to attack. Having established that "Tian" was not a deity of the Shang people, Creel (1970:501–6) proposes a hypothesis for how it originated. Both the Shang and Zhou peoples pictographically represented "da"