August 12 1291 Edward 1^st King of England and descendant of Duncan and Malcolm Kings of Scots) signed a writ that required the collection of all documents that might concern the competitors’ rights or his own title to the superiority of Scotland, Wars of Scottish Independence.

1332 Fatal battle of Dupplin Moor fought 12^th August, 1332, had destroyed all. Edward Baliol made an unworthy use of his (TG13-201)success. Gilbert de Umfraville, 10^th Earl of Angus shared in victory of Baliiol over King David I.   www.battlefieldstrust.com

1554 Battle of Renty. Between France and the Holy Roman Empire at Renty, a northern French secondary theatre of the Italian Wars. The French were led by Francis, Duke of Guise, while the Imperial forces were led by Emperor Charles V of Habsburg. Scotland still allied with France. But not for much longer. Once broken, the Scots French alliance would not be restored for 3 centuries.

Charles V Holy Roman Emperor; King of the Romans; King of Italy

1560 sometime in, With the Scottish Reformation in 1560, a thousand years of monasticism in Scotland was stopped.

1588 sometime in August. Remnants of the Armada are circling Scotland. The execution of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587 was the final incentive for the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada. The route of the Spanish Armada in 1588 up the Channel, into the North Sea and North About Scotland into the Atlantic and Ireland. The map shows the known wrecks of Armada ships. Of the 130 ships in the Armada, half were lost, many just disappearing. Battles at Eddystone, Portland, Isle of Wight, Calais and Gravelines. Of the Armada’s complement of 30,000 soldiers and sailors 20,000 were lost. El Gran Grifin was wrecked on Fare Isle to the North of Orkney. San Juan de Sicilia blew up in Tobermory Bay in Scotland. Spanish officers and crew taken in the Channel or wrecked on the Scottish coast seem to have been treated with consideration and repatriated as soon as Parma sent a ship to collect them. Francisco de Cuellar of the San Pedro, Spanish ship captain under sentence for failing to keep station, was reprieved by Medina Sidonia, only to be ship wrecked on the coast of Ulster while still in the custody of the Judge Advocate General, who sadly was drowned. De Cuellar survived, taken by a local Irish chief whose castle he defended against the English, crossed to Scotland where he and some one hundred and twenty wrecked Spaniards were collected by a ship sent from the Netherlands by the Duke of Parma.

1641 – Charles (later styled 1^st of England, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland -1600–1649). Charles 1^st arrives in Scotland. (TG41-367) dispensed dignities and gifts in Scotland with an unsparing hand. Made General Lesley Earl Leven, raised the [TG41-368] Lords Loudon and Lindsay to Earls.

1812 Madrid captured by English allies. Tytler’s Britanica 271.

1813 Austria declared war against France. Tytler’s Britannica 270.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at bank of the Missouri River, McIlwaine’s Bend. (Clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 61. For I, the Lord, have decreed in mine anger many destructions upon the waters; yea, and especially upon these waters.

1841 Joseph Smith the Prophet. Smith preaching to the Sac and Fox Indians who visited Nauvoo on August 12, 1841. Wikipedia.

1883 Marion Lorne MacDougall (August 12, 1883 – May 9, 1968) born, was an American actress, best known for her recurring role as Aunt Clara in Bewitched. Scots descent.

1939 The Spy in Black filmed in Orkney, Scotland. Poster.

1940 David Charles Snook Luther born. (Descendant of Armstrong and MacPherson, Warren & Stanley of Lancashire, Edward 2^nd of Battle of Bannockburn, Earl of Surrey and Warene the Guardian of Scotland 1290s.)

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1949 August Twelth is the day, sometime in 1908, fictional J Thaddeous Toad Esq. barters Toad Hall deed for a motor car. At least as mentioned in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Toad’s bookkeeper is Angus MacBadger, penurious Scot. MacBadger discovers that Winky is the leader of the weasel gang,  Angus MacBadger

Angus MacBadger Offers Sage Advice SO Often Scorned, at Disneyland.

The movie ends to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, New Years Day Jan 1. From the Wind in the Willows.

1975 Casey Affleck, Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975), actor. The surname “Affleck” is Scottish. Brother of Ben Affleck, actor.

Auchinleck (okh-in-lek; Scots, Affleck from Scottish Gaelic: Achadh nan Leac meaning “field of the flagstones”)[4] is a village five miles south-east of Mauchline, and a couple of miles north-west of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland.  Near the village (Auchinleck Estate) is Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9^th Laird of Auchinleck.

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