April 28 – 1296 Robert VI the Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1253–1304) again swears fealty to Edward I and fights for Edward, at the Battle of Dunbar Castle.

  • Brus or Bruce 1050 2Stewart2 Kennedy 2Montgomery 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate Zoë ToaG Map with Dunbar on the south coast of the Mouth of Firth of Forth, east coast on the North Sea.

1398 Perth parliament. David Earl of Carrick, prince, created Duke of Rothesay, and Earl of Fife, brother of King Robert, created Duke of Albany. This was the first time the title of duke was introduced into Scotland. Tytler’s Britannica.

1490 James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran married to Elizabeth Home, daughter of Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home.

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1503 Battle of Cerignola. between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, next Bari, Southern Italy. The first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.

1558 Walter Mylne, burned to death in St Andrews, the last pre-Reformation martyr.  Map with St. Andrews on the North Sea south of the Mouth of the River Tay.

1680 Helen Cochrane (died before 07.1690) married (28.04.1680) John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland (baptized 02.03.1661, died 27.06.1733).

1746 April 25-28 Lord MacLeod goes the length of saying that the French did not desire the Prince’s success, preferring’ at all times to have a pretender to the Crown of Great Britain’ (L.M.N. 384); and the Prince himself endorses this view in his farewell letter from Borradale, in which he says: ‘it is thought to be a politick [policy] though a false one of the French Court not to restore our master, but to keep a continual civil war in this country, which renders the English Government less powerful and of consequence themselves more. Publications OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 100 (84) April 1897 SUPPLEMENT LYON IN MOURNING PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART ITINERARY AND MAP. Ed.W. B. BLAIKIE, from Narrative of Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromarty.

1758 James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) (clan Munro) was the 5th President of the United States (1817–1825). Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States (i.e. a signer of the Declaration or Constitution), and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation. Monroe’s presidency was marked both by an “Era of Good Feelings” – a period of relatively little partisan strife – and later by the Panic of 1819 and debate over the admission of the Missouri Territory. Monroe proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, which stated that the United States would not tolerate further European intervention in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine was meant to keep Europeans (and others) out of Latin America in the wake of regional independence movements from Spain.’  In 1963, the Monroe Doctrine was cited as among the legal underpinnings of President Kennedy’s response of a quarantine in the Cuban missile Crisis.

After 190 years of success, on November 18, 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared ‘President James Monroe, who was also a former Secretary of State, declared that the United States would unilaterally, and as a matter of fact, act as the protector of the region. We have made a different choice. The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.’ after 196 years. http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/11/217680.htm

The announcement met with approval from the enablers at the Washington Post, New York Times, NBC, CBS, and ABC News.

James Monroe’s father, Spence Monroe (1727–1774) was a planter and carpentry. James’ mother, Elizabeth Jones Monroe (1730–1774), married Spence Monroe in 1752. James’ paternal great-grandfather immigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century. In 1650 Andrew Monroe patented a large tract of land in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

“On the same day [August 22, 23, 1877] these ordinances were performed, President Woodruff records in his journal that he baptized brother McAllister for Gen Washington & his forefathers and all the Presidents of the United States that were on my list. There were Baptized in all to day 682” (Woodruff, Journal 7:367-69)–Arnold K. Garr, Epilogue, Christopher Columbus, p. 71-73.

1778 Joseph Andrews, a stage adaptation of the 1st and 4th books of the novel, was written by Samuel Jackson Pratt and performed on 20 April 1778 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, written in imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote, IN TWO VOLUMES, Vol. I, London; Printed for A. Millar, over against Sl. Clement’s Church in the Strand. M.Dcc.XLII, was the first published full- length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a ‘comic epic poem in prose’. (Millar from clans Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter)

1782 sometime in. Emma Lady Hamilton, (Married into Clan Hamilton).  Emma as Circe by George Romney, 1782.

 

 

1788 Maryland ratifies the Constitution, becomes a state. Scottish place names include (from Wikipedia)- Aberdeen Abington Arden on the Severn, Ashton, Belhaven Beach, Benfield Birkwood Estates, Blackwater Bolton Bonnie Brae, Bonnie Brook, Braeburn, Brighton, Browns Woods, Burnside Acres Bushwood, Campbell, Canterbury, Carmicheal, Castleton, Chapel Woods, Charleston, Charlestown Charlton, Chester, Chevy Chase, Church Hill, Clayton Manor, Clifton Beach, Clydesdale Acres, Collison Corner, Cove, Craigtown, Dalton, Furnace, Garfield, Georgetown, Gilmore, lien, Glen Burnie, Glen Farms, Glenarden, Glenarm, Glencoe Glenelg, Glenn Dale, Green Hill, Greenfield Estates, Greenock, Hall, Hamilton, Harris, Harwood, Highfield, Highland, Highland Park, Highlandtown, Hillside, Hope, Hutton, Kilburnie, Kings Park, Kingston, Kirkwood, Knollwood, Leslie, Lewis, Lime Kiln, Linton Springs Linwood, Little Georgetown, Loch Haven,Loch Lynn Heights, Lochearn, Longridge, Longwoods, Lyons Creek, Mayfield, McAlpine, McCleans Corner, McComas Beach, McConchie, McCoole, McCoys Ferry, McDaniel, McDonald, McGhiesport, McHenry, McKay Beach, McKenzie, Melrose, Midlothian, Allegany County, Milton, Montrose, Morningside, Mount Vernon, Muirkirk, New Bridge, New Market, Newburg, Newport, Newton, Newtown, Oakley, Oakwood, Oldtown, Park Hall, Preston, Red Hill, Red Point, Redhouse, Redland, Riverside, Saint Leonard, Saint Martin, Salisbury, Scarff, Scotland, Scotland Beach, Scots Fancy, Springhill, St. Andrews, St. Johns Village, St. Leonard Shores, St. Marys City, St. Micheals, Stanley, Starr Summer Hill, Tanglewood, Temple Hills, Thompson Corner, Trinity, Two Locks, Upper Crossroads, Walston, Waverly, West Hills, West St. Marys, Westport, Westwood,White Hall, Whiteford, Whitehouse, Wilton Farm, Wolf Hill, Woodfield, Woodhaven Park, Woodlawn, Woolford, State of Maryland FATTE MASCHII PAROLE FEMINE

1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh (Ship’s captain) and 18 sailors are set in an open boat to sail 3618 miles and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. Pitcairn’s namesake was Scot, later related to the Cochrane clan.

The mutineers turning Lt Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from His Majesty’s Ship Bounty. By Robert Dodd. Wikipedia

1843 William Wallace’s parents were Janet Simson and Alexander Wallace (clan Wallace). Born: 23 Sept 1768 in Dysart, Scotland, 
Died: 28 April 1843 in Edinburgh, Scotland, In a paper of Wallace in 1799 is One of Wallace’s theorems:-

… if 4 lines intersect each other to form 4 triangles (omit one line in turn) then the circumcircles of the triangles have a point in common …

was generalized to 2n lines by Clifford. He published two books after he retired, A Geometrical Treatise on the Conic Sections with an Appendix Containing Formulae for their Quadrature (1838) and Geometrical Theorems and Analytical Formulae with their application to the Solution of Certain Geodetical Problems and an Appendix (1839).  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wallace.html

1922 – Alistair Stuart MacLean, born, Glasgow Scottish novelist (d. 1987)

1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans. 230 years after the Darien (in the Isthmus of Panama between North and South America continents) colony collapse losing half of Scotland’s capital investment, due to the yellow fever plague. The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes (the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and other species) and is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa, but not in Asia.

Adults of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. The male on the left, females on the right. Only the female mosquito bites and can transmit the disease. This vector (a means to transmit disease) was demonstrated by Col. Walter Reed, US Army, after being isolated by Scots. Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, (1933-1915) of Cuba, proposed mosquitoes for yellow fever in 1881.

Finlay’s father, a physician, was Scottish and moved to Cuba. The discovery of vectors provided means to prevent multiple diseases transmitted by ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, flies, and assorted insects. Previously vectors associated with rabies were animals, such as dogs, squirrels, raccoons, wolves, wild species.

1950 James Douglas Muir “Jay” Leno (clan Muir) (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, host of The Tonight Show; mother Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993) was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11. Leno arriving at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards in his Hispano-Suiza Aero.

Map with Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, west central lowlands of Scotland, 16 miles west of Glasgow (note Port Glasgow below Greenock).

1956 Paul Lockhart (born 1956), NASA astronaut. Lockhart’s two space missions, STS-111 and STS-113,both in 2002, were missions to the International Space Station.

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1967 Casino Royale filmed in Scotland. John Huston directed scenes at Sir James Bond’s house and scenes at Scottish castle.

Film poster by Robert McGinnis. Based on Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel. Fleming was the grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, (clan Fleming) who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. (since 2000, part of JP Morgan Chase).

 

1997 Prime Minister John Major went to Northern Ireland and Scotland Monday to stress his commitment to the United Kingdom, an issue he has emphasized in the waning days of the election campaign. Blair pledged that a Labor government would [investigate] “the scandal of patients waiting for hours on trolleys in hospital corridors.” [Health care rationing under Single payor medicine Scottish style National Health Service.]

2017 Hi I’m Nate Taylor – People. I grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah. I am a golfer. And I am a Mormon currently on a mission in Scotland/Ireland. I am a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, a devoted Bible basher and I love lamp. https://www.mormon.org/me/G32M/NateTaylor

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