August 13 1237 Alexander II King of Scots age 23 was married to Henry 3rd‘s sister Joan of England (age 10), and Alexander’s sister Margaret had married Hubert de Burgh, a former regent to Henry 3rd King of England. On 13 August 1237 Henry 3rd advised Otho that he would meet Alexander II at York to treat of peace. The title of the agreement is Scriptum cirographatum inter Henricum Regem Anglie et Alexandrum Regem Scocie de comitatu Northumbrie Cumbrie et Westmerland factum coram Ottone Legato – A feudal agreement between Henry III of England and Alexander III of Scotland.

1330 or sometime in August, or August 25, or March 25 or 8 September, from other sources. Preparing for the Battle of Teba, in the province of Málaga in Andalusia, southern Spain. King, Robert I of Scotland, body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, while his heart is buried in Melrose Abbey. Robert’s embalmed heart was to be taken on crusade by his lieutenant and friend Sir James Douglas to the Holy Land, but only reached Moorish Granada, where it acted as a talisman for the Scottish contingent at Teba.

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1432 Sometime in August. Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell married, first to Marjorie (d. before August 1432), daughter of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany.

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1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France (allies from 1513 Scotland, Duchy of Ferrara, Venice) recognizes Charles’s claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (allies from 1513 with Spain, England, Swiss, Milan, and Papal Estates), recognizes Francis’s claim to Milan. Settled the The War of the League of Cambrai, also the War of the Holy League running between 1708 and 1516. Scotland’s alliance with France during this war, lead to the disaster at Flodden Field in 1513. The settlement came too late to help Scotland.

1696 The Darien colony. Sometime in August. These narrow-minded, unjust, and ungenerous apprehensions prevailed so widely throughout the English nation, that both Houses of Parliament joined in an address to the King, stating that the advantages given to the newly-erected Scottish Indian and African Company, would ensure that  kingdom so great a superiority over the English East India Company, that a great part of the stock and shipping of England would be transported to the north, and Scotland would become a free port for all East Indian commodities, which they would be able to furnish at a much cheaper rate than the English. By this means it was said England would lose all the advantages of an exclusive trade [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-34] in the Eastern commodities, which had always been a great article in her foreign commerce, and sustain infinite detriment in the sale of her domestic manufactures. The King [William], in his gracious reply to this address, acknowledged the justice of its statements, though as void of just policy as of grounds in public law. His [William] royal answer bore, that ” the King had been ill served in Scotland, but hoped some remedies might still be found to prevent the evils apprehended.” To show that his resentment was serious against his Scottish ministers, King William II, deprived the Master of Stair John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, of his office as Secretary of State, Scotland.  The 1st Earl of Stair. Thus a statesman, who had retained his place in spite of the bloody deed of Glencoe [1692 Feb 13], was disgraced for attempting to serve his country, in the most innocent and laudable manner, by extending her trade and national importance. Whoop Tee Doo!

1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim, Danube River, Bavaria. English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops. The Acts of Union of 1707 united the crowns of England and Scotland, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. For much of the war, Scottish units were under Dutch pay and operated as part of the army of the Dutch Republic. After, France agreed to stop supporting the Stuart pretenders to the British throne, instead recognizing Anne as the legitimate queen

Scottish soldier’s cap worn after the 1707 Union. Wikipedia

1745 August 13th Lord President Forbes went to to Inverness, where he rallied to the Government side the Lords Sutherland and Beay (MacKay), the Grants qf Grant, tA6 Munroa, Sir Alexander MacDonald, MacLeod of MacLeod, Lord Fortress (Seaforth MacKenzie), and others, raising twenty companies for London regiment among Highlanders, who might otherwise have followed PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART (C.P. 370 et passim).

1782 Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau died (20 July 1700, Paris – 13 August 1782, Paris), was a French physician, naval engineer and botanist. Elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1738, His bookseller was Andrew Millar 6th (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).  The Elements of Naval Architecture; or, a Practical Treatise on Ship-Building by M. Duhamel du Monceau, Inspector general of the Marine to his Most Christian Majesty, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and Fellow of the Royal Society at London etc. London, Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, MDCCLXIV.

1817 Earthquake. Inverness 4.5. 1 Nephi 12:4 And it came to pass that I saw a mist of darkness on the face of the land of promise; and I saw earthquakes, and all manner of tumultuous noises; and I saw the earth and the rocks, that they rent; and I saw mountains tumbling into pieces; and I saw the plains of the earth, that they were broken up; and I saw many cities that they were sunk; and I saw many that they were burned with fire; and I saw many that did tumble to the earth, because of the quaking thereof.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, on the bank of the Missouri River at Chariton, Missouri (Clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 62. Behold, the kingdom is yours.

1932 Speak Easily movie released. Buster Keaton is a professor who thinks he inherits $750,000 in the bottom of the depression. Jimmy Durante tells this humor, In Scotland the movie houses bill Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde as a Double Feature.

 

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