April 2 946 Sir Elder McDuck at battle. (fictional clan McDuck).

 “a McDuck and his stinginess was present at all the great moments of Scottish history”

1318 sometime in April. Capture of Berwick, Sir James Douglas, Lord of Douglas took the town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed from the English, who had controlled the town since 1296.

• Douglas 10362Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate –  Douglas 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

1607 Sometime in.  Penal Laws. Exclusion of Catholics (and eventually all non Church of England dissidents, such as  Lutherans (Scandinavia and Germany), Presbyterians (Scots Church), Quakers (Friends), Calvinists, (Swiss)  Congregationalists, covenanters, Baptists, Jews, foreigners) from most public offices (since 1607) i.e. Corporation officers, Sheriffs, judicial, Academics, commissioned officers, Solicitors, Barristers, chancellors, clerks, notary, Councilor, any merchant needing an import or export permit, etc. Penal Laws Repealed circa 1829 for most, for Jews in the latter 1800s.  One result was to continue for 200 years, religious refugees immigration to North America.

• http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd06402.htm
• ENGLAND
• By a series of statutes successive sovereigns and Parliaments from Elizabeth (1559) to George I (1722) sought to prevent the practice of the Catholic faith in England. Under Elizabeth the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity (1559) were both, in effect, penal statutes, for they punished Catholics who refused to take the Oath of Supremacy or to attend the services of the Established Church. More severe measures were not enacted until after the Bull of Excommunication (1570). From 1571 till 1603 acts were passed which made it high treason:
• to bring in papal Bulls (1571)
• to declare the queen to be a heretic or schismatic
• to reconcile anyone or to be reconciled to the “Romish religion” (1581)
• for any priest to be in England after 1585
• for any priest to refuse the Oath of Supremacy a second time (1563)
• Besides these the following were punishable by fine, imprisonment, forfeiture of property:
• to bring in articles blessed by the pope
• to take refuge abroad
• to say or hear Mass
• to be absent from Anglican services
• to harbor or relieve priests
• to send children abroad to schools or seminaries

1669 sometime in, Earl of Dundonald created for William Cochrane, brother of Colonel Hugh Cochrane (ancestor of Simmons-Choate).

1707 sometime in. Exclusion of Presbyterians from public office from 1707 (Union of the Parliaments). Repealed circa 1829.

1728 James Anderson died in London age 66. In 1739, Eleven years after his death the work ‘Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae Thesaurus’ printed by Andrew Millar VI (1705-1768) in the Strand London.  100 copperplates with ancient characters and seals of the kings of Scotland, alphabets and abbreviations used in ancient writings,  Anderson v. 1 /p. 125

1745 Susan Cochrane (d 24.07.1754) married m2. (02.04.1745) George Forbes.

1775 Massachusetts Bay Colony. The English  have a secret plan  to disarm the colonials, by confiscating the Colonials personal pistols and muskets.  Across the ocean from Scotland, hundreds of thousands of Scots and their descendants are scattered 2,000 miles up and down the Atlantic coast of the colonies, many having been forced by the Highland Clearances.  Troubles over taxation and political control have been growing for a decade. The English occupied Boston 3 years earlier and have identified different caches of colonial arms, particularly those at Lexington and Concord.  Gun control will jump start the War of Independence and  be the spark for the American Revolution. In late 1774 the Suffolk Resolves were adopted to resist the enforcement of the alterations made to the Massachusetts colonial government by the British parliament following the Boston Tea Party.

1783  London. The articles of peace of Paris result in the resignation of the ministry. A new coalition of Whigs and Lord North assume the government.  Tytler’s History of Scotland in the Britannica.

1789 John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod (December 1727 – 2 April 1789) was a Scottish Jacobite and soldier of fortune. Born at Castle Leod near Strathpeffer, Scotland, he was the eldest son of George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie and Isabel Gordon. He was a Freemason, his father being the Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1737-38. He married Hon. Margery Forbes, daughter of James Forbes, 16^th  Lord Forbes.

  John Mackenzie, Lord Macleod in British Uniform as Colonel of the Highland Light Infantry Regiment.  From 1779 London Highlander Society.

1803 Copenhagen. Admirals Nelson and Parker attack the Danish fleet.  Denmark seceded from the treaty of Armed Neutrality with Russia and Sweden.  Tytler’s History of Scotland Britannica.

1840 Paisley and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Samuel Mulliner (b. 1809), and Alexander Wright (b. 1804), Scots, arrive as missionaries. [Ensign Feb. 1987]. John Leishman of Johnstone, On April 2, while conversing with the missionaries on the road to Paisley, John asked to be baptized. The elders took him to their customary baptismal font, a stream with a little waterfall on Muckle Ridge Farm near Johnstone, and baptized John Leishman.

1843 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Ramus, Illinois. (Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness,  Hamilton, Huntley, Scotland, Malcolm King of Scots). When the Savior shall appear we shall see him as he is. We shall see that he is a man like ourselves. And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy. John 14:23—The appearing of the Father and the Son, in that verse, is a personal appearance; and the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man’s heart is an auld sectarian notion, and is false. The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim.  Doctrine and Covenants 130

1879 The Battle of Gingindlovu. Zululand in South Africa. 91^st  Highlanders: now the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

The Battle of Gingindlovu; the British square attacked by the Zulus; 
91^st  Highlanders and a Gatling Gun. The “horns” of the Zulu advance rushed around the British position expecting to find the rear open, as at Isandlwana, only to meet the volley firing of the 91^st  Highland Regiment. Here too the Zulus were forced into cover.

 In the face of the sustained fire from the 91^st , the attack on the rear of the laager ebbed away and Chelmsford ordered his mounted units out of the square to complete the victory.

1917 President Woodrow Wilson reads to the Congress,  a call for a declaration for a state of war.   This followed the unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, against American shipping.

1980 announcement of Tongan temple by Spencer W. Kimball, 9–11 August 1983 by Gordon B. Hinckley (Scots ancestry).

 Nuku‘Alofa Tonga Temple, centennial of the Church of Jesus Christ.

2012 Humor. Remembering his lassie and their special anniversary, Murray had in his pants a bottle of expensive imported French perfume, sold by the tenth of an ounce.  While walking up his steps, he slipped, fell, and smacked on the steps. Getting up he felt something wet on his pants.  He looked up at the sky and said,” Oh Laird, please Ah beg o’ ye, let it be bluid!”

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2016 Utah is ranked 2^nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents Wikipedia 26 March 2017. 2016. As usual, for the 19^th  year in a row, Brigham Young University’s Provo campus was ranked the most “stone-cold sober” school by Princeton Review, a title they’re proud to clinch. The most sober schools are often a mix of religious institutions and military academies, and 2017 is no different.

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