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The
Aberdeen area has seen human settlement for at least
8,000 years. The city began as two separate burghs:
Old Aberdeen at the mouth of the river Don; and New
Aberdeen, a fishing and trading settlement, where the
Denburn waterway entered the river Dee estuary. The
earliest charter was granted by William the Lion in
1179 and confirmed the corporate rights granted by David
I. In 1319, the Great Charter of Robert the Bruce transformed
Aberdeen into a property-owning and financially independent
community. Granted with it was the nearby Forest of
Stocket, whose income formed the basis for the city's
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During
the Wars of Scottish Independence, Aberdeen was under
English rule, so Robert the Bruce laid siege to Aberdeen
Castle before destroying it in 1308 followed by the massacring
of the English garrison and the retaking of Aberdeen for
the townspeople. The city was burned by Edward III of
England in 1336, but was rebuilt and extended, and called
New Aberdeen. The city was strongly fortified to prevent
attacks by neighbouring lords, but the gates were removed
by 1770. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1644-1647
the city was impartially plundered by both sides. In 1644,
it was taken and ransacked by Royalist troops after the
Battle of Aberdeen. In 1647 an outbreak of bubonic plague
killed a quarter of the population.
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In
the eighteenth century, a new Town Hall was built and
the first social services appeared with the Infirmary
at Woolmanhill in 1742 and the Lunatic Asylum in 1779.
The council began major road improvements at the end of
the century with the main thoroughfares of George Street,
King Street and Union Street all completed at the start
of the next century.
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