April 9 1139 Second Treaty of Durham in which David I  (Dàibhidh) is recognized as King of an independent Scotland by King Stephen of England.

AD 1326 King Robert II becomes high Steward.

AD 1494 Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton (died after April 1531), married 9 April 1494 Matthew Stewart, 2^nd Earl of Lennox (died at Flodden Field), by whom she had issue.

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The Lennox Stewarts, of whom Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots was the most notable, derived their claim to the Scottish throne from Elizabeth’s son John Stewart, 3^rd Earl of Lennox.

1531 sometime in April. Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton (died after April 1531), married 9 April 1494 to Matthew Stewart, 2^nd Earl of Lennox, by whom she had issue. The Lennox Stewarts, of whom Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots was the most notable, derived their claim to the Scottish throne from Elizabeth’s son John Stewart, 3^rd Earl of Lennox.

1649 – James Scott, 1^st Duke of Monmouth, born, natural son of Charles 2^nd Scot noble (d. 1685 executed by uncle James 7^h)

Jacobus D.G. Monumethesium Dux. James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch. by Unknown artist
line engraving, late 17^th century

1695. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, Ireland and Scotland were, according to Edmund Burke “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Savage, John (1869). Fenian Heroes and Martyrs. Patrick Donahoe. pp. 16. Bans on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church Presbyterians, Education Act 1695 – ban on foreign education; no teachers, no books, no classes, no colleges, no exit visas to travel for education to Padua, or centers of learning in France, Poland, Bavaria, Denmark, Sweden, Madrid. repealed 1782.

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ENGLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA

• In Virginia the charter of 1606 established the Anglican Church, and penal legislation was directed against all dissenters. In 1628 an act imposed fines on absentees from service; in 1642 a law disenfranchised Catholics and enforced the expulsion, within five days, of a priest coming into the colony; and even in 1755 a curious act “for disarming Papists” gave evidence of the prejudice against Catholics. In Massachusetts, where Congregationalism was established, only Church members were admitted to civic freedom, heresy was punished by banishment (1631), Catholics were not allowed to live in the colony, death was the punishment for the return of a banished Jesuit, and although in 1691 liberty of conscience was decreed to all Christians, the clause “except Papists” was inserted. Religious freedom for all, which had been the law from the foundation of Catholic Maryland, was abolished in 1692, when the Episcopal Establishment began a persecution of Catholics. Catholics were deprived of civil and religious rights, a law laid a tax of 20 shillings on every Irish servant imported (1704), and Catholics did not receive the franchise until the American Revolution put an end to all penal enactments. The legislation of all the other colonies, with the exception of Connecticut and Rhode Island, contained restrictions against Catholics, the franchise being generally limited to Protestants. Even in Pennsylvania (1705), despite the protest of Penn, Catholics were excluded from civil rights.

1726 sometime in , YYMA 33. disaster relief for ministers, were likewise kept in view: collections were made for Copenhagen and for New York, and in 1726, the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, with three Miller ministers present, entertained a request ‘for a probationer to be sent to James Island in South Carolina.’

1747 – Simon Fraser, 11^th Lord Lovat, died. Scottish peer.

1749 Camillo Federici (9 April 1749 – 23 December 1802) was an Italian dramatist and actor. He was born at Garessio, a small town in Piedmont. His real name was Giovanni Battista Viassolo. Weatherson concludes:

At the heart of the plot, however, lay an Italian, the pulp plays and novels of Camillo Federici (1749 -1802) a former actor whose prolific vulgarizations of Schiller and Kotzebue set Italian librettists scribbling for four decades. Indeed, without him it is to be suspected that Sir Walter Scott would never have captured the imagination of so many poets, nor for so long.

1775 Menotomy, present day Arlington, 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 cause the spark for the American Revolution.

1809 John Norton set out from the Grand River to make a journey which would take him a thousand miles through Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee to the land of the Cherokees. fl. 1784–1825.

John Norton’s birthdate is unknown. Norton’s father had come from the Cherokee nation, “having been taken, a boy, from Kuwoki, when that village was burnt by the English,” according to one report. Norton’s mother was an Anderson living near Dunfermline, Scotland, when their son John was born. As required by Scots law, the son received his education in Dunfermline, and in a print shop, perhaps his father’s. The letters, speeches, and journal which John composed later show that he had had good training in the writing of English.

Norton came to Canada as a private soldier. The muster rolls of the 65^th Foot record his enlistment at Mullingar (Republic of Ireland) early in 1784. He arrived in the province of Quebec with the regiment in the following year and accompanied it to Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) in 1787. There he deserted. In 1788 he received his discharge.

Between 1812 and 1815, Norton lead Iroquois allies of the British around Fort Erie, and Niagara on the Lake.

In 1815 Norton and Catherine, along with John (Tehonakaraa), one of his sons, went to visit Britain. Catherine and the boy were enrolled in a school at Dunfermline, Scotland, and she proved to be “a very keen student.’

Mohawk Chief John Norton. (from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online at Libraries and Archives Canada) 

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University of Toronto/Université Laval

1813 Jane Laurie Borthwick born. Thomas de Borthwick had William Borthwick Baron of Borthwick (1355-1414) and Mariota Hay had

Sir William Borthwick (1350 – died 6 October 1429 Catcune Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland) and Margaret Hay (Daughter of Thomas de Haya Sheriff of Peebles Sir of Lockerworth and Alice Gifford) had

William Borthwick Third Lord Borthwick and Mariot Hoppringle had, Alexander Borthwick of Adislaw and Margaret Lawson had

William Borthwick First of Soltray and Janet Sinclair had,

William Borthwick had

William Borthwick and Katharine Crichton

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Andrew Borthwick and Margaret Turnbull had

Archibald Borthwick had

Patrick 16^th Lord Borthwick in Castleheads and Marion Scott had,

Archibald 17^th Lord Borthwick and Margaret Nicholson Scott, had

James Borthwick and Sarah Finlay, had

Jane Laurie Borthwick (9 APR 1813 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. – 7 SEP 1897), hymn composer, Be Still my Soul 124. 457C-51R.

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1829 Joseph Smith the Prophet at Harmony, Pennsylvania. (Clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 8. Sometime in April. ‘Yea, behold, I will tell ye in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon ye and which shall dwell in your heart. Now, behold, this is the spirit of revelation; behold, this is the spirit by which Moses brought the children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry ground.’

1852 Scotsman, William C. Dunbar, who lost his wife and children when the boilers burst on the ill-fated steamboat Saluda on 9 April 1852. William and his wife Helen had two children, Euphemia, age six, and Franklin Lorenzo, age one. They were part of a company of some 333 British members [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]  who gathered to Zion aboard the Kennebec. Having reached St. Louis behind schedule, the Dunbars (like other [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] emigrants) were worried about running out of funds for lodging and provisions. William’s friend, fellow Scotsman David Ross, recently had come down river from Kanesville along with Elder Eli B. Kelsey to help with [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] emigration matters. Elder Kelsey, a seasoned church worker in Scotland, had recently returned from missionary service in England HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1865 Appomattox Court House Virginia. Palm Sunday. After General Robert S. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant, (clan Grant) commander of the Union Armies of the United States, Lee rode away from Wilmer McLean’s house on Lee’s horse Traveler. The Pennsylvania Band played ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Thus ended the Civil War.

Early print of Grant and Lee at the time of Lee’s surrender.   The room was only as big to hold half that many officers.

1867 David McKay, from Thurso, Scotland, married Jennette Evans. Their son, DAVID O. McKay was the 9^th President, from 1951, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1893 Salt Lake City. John Nicholson, Scotsman, became the chief recorder of the temple as well as clerk of the general conference of the Church. https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/872907

1896 “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played by the Navy at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in Athens, 1896. The United States wins 11 Gold, 7 Silver and 2 Bronze medals, a total of 20. The author Francis Scott Key descended from clan Ross. During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn (Sinclair and Boyd clan – in 1548 an earlier Cockburn hired John Knox as a tutor), and Major General Robert Ross. “Defense of Fort McHenry”, which Key published in the Patriot on September 20, 1814. Key intended to fit it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith’s “To Anacreon in Heaven”. “The Star Spangled Banner” was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (acknowledging military bands played) and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover. In the fourth stanza, Key urged “In God is our Trust” as the national motto. The United States adopted the motto “In God We Trust” by law in 1956. Which now appears on currency and coins.

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£1 postage stamp from the set of four issued by Great Britain on 8 March 2012 showing classic Locomotives of Scotland. www.stampboards.com

Andrew Barclay No. 807 – Andrew Barclay Sons and Company of Kilmarnock, (Ayr, Scotland) manufactured industrial locomotives. They could be found at collieries, shipyards and industrial sites. Number 807, Bon Accord, was built in 1897 and belonged to the Aberdeen Gas Works and is seen working along Miller Street, Aberdeen in June 1962.

1906. DAVID O. McKay was the 9^th President, from 1951, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His father David McKay, came from Thurso, Scotland to Utah in 1856. Served six years in the Weber Stake Sunday School, since 1900. Ordained an Apostle at the age of 32. Sustained as the second assistant in the General Sunday School superintendency. McKay then became first assistant in 1909, and general superintendent from 1918 to 1934.

1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, with relative ease, minimum resistance, treachery and treason. German Codes – The Bletchley Park Ultra programme was now decoding some Luftwaffe low-level Enigma codes, partly because of poor German security procedures. There was little evidence the hard-won information influenced the war over the next two violent months, but it was good practice before the Battle of Britain.

1951 Joseph Fielding Smith. Sustained as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle. 10^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith descended from Mack of Inverness (clan Mack), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. On 28 Nov 1954, President Smith ordained William Preston Cook a High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. On 3 February 1975 Cook, as President of the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Stake ordained John Choate a Seventy after the Order of Melchizedek.

2013 The From Scotland With Love fashion show, the theme of this show will be “The Scottish Lion Meets the Asian Dragon”, 7:30PM cocktail party, 9PM fashion show.