April 5 1154 sometime in pestilence reported. Plague affecting animals only, but still left a great famine in the land. [symptoms consistent for anthrax, ] 2 Nephi 6:15 And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed, both by pestilence, and by famine. And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

• Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of famine and pestilence. Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1424 James I Stewart, king, and Joan Beaufort, queen, proceed to Melrose Abbey to receive governor’s seal from Duke of Albany (Uncle to the King) (The King, Queen and Duke, all ancestors of Annie Grace Choate).

1564 April 5^th. Palm Sunday wedding of Knox and Stewart. As Knox’s second wife, when Knox was fifty-nine and she was in her teens (perhaps 16), Knox married Margaret Stewart, also daughter of Andrew, second Lord Ochiltree, descended from King Robert II by a collateral Stewart line (Duke of Albany above) Andrew Stewart, 2^nd Lord of Ochiltree in Ayr (circa 1521-1593) member of the Lords of the Congregation, had a daughter Anne Stewart (‘Nan’) who married Andrew Millar I of Temple and Killoch. YYMA 3 Among Reformers in the Scottish pageant, the central personality in the 1550’s was John Knox.

In 1559 John Knox returned from ministering in Geneva to lead the Calvinist reformation in Scotland. The English resident diplomat in Scotland, Thomas Randolph noted that Margaret Stewart was a near kinswoman of the Duke, meaning James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (Andrew’s (Lord Ochiltree) mother was the Duke’s half-sister). Randolph thought that Cecil would think his report madness.[3] They were married on Palm Sunday after the banns had been proclaimed in St Giles, Edinburgh. Randolph wrote that the Queen [Mary of Scots] was angry at the marriage because Margaret was of the royal ‘bluid and name. Wikipedia reports.

The Duke’s half sister was Margaret Hamilton. Ancestor of Reese Witherspoon.

1559 by the 10 April. One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. James Hamilton, 3^rd Earl of Arran (c1532–1609)

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retired from the camp at Leith ‘evil at ease,’ to rest at Holyroodhouse. Within a week, Arran was in control of Blackness Castle, and returned to Edinburgh for the peace negotiations after the death of Mary of Guise in June, which led to the Treaty of Edinburgh. After the Protestant religion was established by the Reformation Parliament, Arran went with Lord James to Dalhousie Castle and burnt church books and vestments.

Blackness castle, Falkirk, Scotland on the Firth of Forth, built 1440s by Sir George Crichton. Blackness passed to the King James 2^nd in 1453, and continues as Crown property [Historic Scotland]. Wikipedia.

1607 to 1641 circa. Catholics barred from holding firearms or serving in the armed forces (rescinded by Militia Act of 1793.) Later still, everyone, Catholic and Protestant, in the United Kingdom, was again barred from owning firearms from about 1909, with narrow exceptions.

1649 Elihu Yale (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721) was born in Boston (family returned to Wales in 1652) to David Yale (1613-1690) and Ursula Knight (1624-1698). Elihu was a Welsh Merchant, Philanthropist, Governor of the East India Co. settled at Madras; also President of Fort George in Madras (1684-1685). In 1718, Yale became benefactor of Collegiate School of Connecticut in New Haven, later renamed Yale College in his honor. With the largest single gift for the first century and a half of the school’s creation.

Arms of Yale, with the Cross of Saint Andrews, Scottish national flag. (white for Scots since 1385, red for Saint Patrick). Mark and Tova Choate (nee Leigh) matriculated at Yale 1990s. Mark (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter, Cochrane, Meldrum). Molly Choate Summers matriculated at Yale 1990s. (clans Montgomerie, Blair, Semple, Abernethy, Gordon, Livingstone, McPherson, Armstrong, Fraser, Graham).

Yale’s 23^rd president and all past and present members of the Corporation wear blue velvet tams with gold tassels.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3768

1681 John Mack of Inverness Scotland died Salisbury Essex Massachusetts Bay Colony, married Sarah Bagley 1661-1721, parents of Ebenezer Mack (1ZP4-7x) born 1697, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, 1728 Hannah Huntley married parents of Solomon Mack, (1732-1820) father of Smith, Lucy Mack, mother of Joseph Smith, Jr. Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley,

Malcolm II Ceanmor King of Scots (1033-1093) had Matilda Atheling Princess of Scotland (1079-1118) married Henry I, Beauclerc King of England had Maud married Geoffrey V le Bon Plantagenet (1113-1151) had Henry II Plantagenet King of England (1133-1189) married Eleanore of Aquitaine,

The Seal of King Henry II

had John Lackland King (1166-1216 married Isabella de Taillefer (1180-1246) had Henry III King of England (1206-1272) married Eleanore of Provence (1217-1291) had Edmund Crouchback Prince (1244-1275) married Blanche d’Artois (1248-1302) had Henry Plantagenet (1281-1345) married Maud de Chaworth (1282-1317) had Eleanor Plantagenet (1311-1372) married Richard Fitzalan ‘’Copped Hat’’ 10^th Earl of Arundel (1313-1375) had John Fitzalan of Arundel (1348-1379) 1^st Baron Arundel, Marshall of England, married Eleanor Maltravers (1346-1405) had Joan Fitzalan of Arundel (1360-1404) married Sir William de Echingham (1376-1412) had Elizabeth Echinghame (1404) married Thomas Hoo (1396-1454) 1^st Baron Hoo and Hastings, Knight of the Garter, had Anne Hoo (1410-1425) married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn (1406-1462) mercer and Lord Mayor of London [ggp Queen Anne Boleyn, ggg Elizabeth 1^st] had Alice Boleyn (1438) married Sir John Fortescue (1434-md 1462) had Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476-1539) married Anne Stonor (1484-1518) had Margaret Fortescue (1502-1551) married Sir Thomas Wentworth (1501-1551) 1^st Baron Wentworth and de jure 6^th Baron le Despencer Lord Chamberlain had Anne Wentworth (1520-1575) married John Poley (1511-1589) had Margaret Poley (1542-1625) married Thomas Palmer (1540-1625) had Thomas Palmer (1575-1608) married Margaret Pelham (1578) had Henry Palmer (1615-1661) married Katherine (1624-1650) had Deborah Palmer (1642-1727) married Lewis Jones (1635-1696) had Hannah Jones (1662-1689) married Stephen Wolf (1650-1690) had Deborah de Wolf (1690) married Aaron Huntley (1680-1748) had Hannah Huntley (1708-1796) married Ebenezer Mack (1697, married 1728).

1700 The Darien colony on the Isthmus between the Pacific and Atlantic, between North and South America. Sometime in April 1700. ‘The fate of the colony now came to a crisis. The Spaniards had brought from the Pacific a force of sixteen hundred men, who were stationed at a place called Tubucantee, waiting the arrival of an armament of eleven ships, with troops on board, destined to attack fort Saint Andrew. Captain [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-45] Campbell,

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who, by the unanimous consent of the settlers, was chosen to the supreme military command, marched against them with two hundred men, surprised and stormed their camp, and dispersed their army, with considerable slaughter. But in returning from his successful expedition, Campbell had the mortification to learn that the Spanish ships had arrived before the harbour, disembarked their troops, and invested the place. A desperate defence was maintained for six weeks until loss of men, want of ammunition, and the approach of famine, compelled the colonists to an honourable surrender. The survivors of this unhappy settlement were so few, and so much exhausted, that they were unable to weigh the anchor of the vessel, called The Rising Sun, in which they were to leave the fatal shore, without assistance from the conquering Spaniards.’

• ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of famine.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1735 map of Darien Scottish colony.

1765 Edward Young died (June 1681 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts. Bookseller Andrew Millar 6^th (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality: To which is added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JOB. Etc. London Printed for A. Millar, over against Catharine-Street in the Strand; and R. Dodsley, at Tully’s Head in Pall Mall. MDCCL

1775 Boston Massachusetts. Gun control. 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. 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. About 700 British Army regulars in Boston, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy rebel gunpowder and supplies reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord.

1799 Andrew Coutts Cochrane (born 05.04.1799, d 22.06.1870) had issue married (1835) Marie Teresa de Strack (daughter of Baron de Strack of Austria)

1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.

1829 Joseph Smith Jr. (Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley,) wrote ‘Oliver Cowdery came to my house, until which time I had never seen him. [Cowdery] stated to me that having been teaching school in the neighborhood where my father resided, and my father being one of those who sent to the school, [Cowdery] went to board for a season at his house, and while there the family related to him the circumstances of my having received the plates, and accordingly [Cowdery] had come to make inquiries of me.’

John Mack born 6 mar 1653 Inverness Scotland married in 1681 in Salisbury Massachusetts Bay Colony to Sarah Bagley, had Ebenezer, had Solomon, had Lucy Smith (nee Mack) had Joseph Smith Junior (1806-1844).

1834 436,098 barrels of herring were cured for the year ending this date. The chief location was Wick, Pultneytown, Caithness. Others are white fish, haddock, cod, ling, oysters, flounders, and salmon. Tytler’s Britannica.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown (Virginia) begins.

1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

1937 Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937, Federal Judge, sister of Donald Trump. (both Scots descendants)

1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health. (Montgomery clan).

1964 sometime in April. 633 Squadron Filmed in Scotland.

1964 theatrical poster. A fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron.

2010 8^th Annual Dressed To Kilt Charity Fashion Show presented by Glenfiddich at M2 Ultra Lounge on April 5, 2010 in New York City.. In front of the Saint Andrews cross on Scotland’s flag.

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Kyle MacLachlan in sweater above.             Above, Alan Cumming with hand salute.

Shani Davis, Olympian, Shoe toe pointed left above.

Al Roker Weatherman.

Kelly Bensimon on left.

Sean Connery’s annual “Dressed to Kilt” runway show which the legendary actor hosts to benefit his Friends of Scotland charity (this year’s funds went to Wounded Warriors, the Paralyzed Veterans of America, and its Scottish equivalent, the Erskine Hospital).

2010

Donald Trump Junior at 8^th annual ‘Dressed to Kilt’ charity New York City.

2011 NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 05: (L-R) Brian Cox, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Noth and Jim Gaffigan walk the runway at the 9^th Annual “Dressed To Kilt” charity fashion show at Hammerstein Ballroom on April 5, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

These 4 show up on several different dates for Dressed to Kilt.

2013 The Pre-Parade Ceilidh hosted by the New York Caledonian Club at Abigail Adams, 417 East 61^st Street.

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