August 1 Lammas Old Scottish term days corresponded approximately to the old Celtic quarter days. Lunasa (1 August) Ireland. Tales of a Grandfather, By Sir Walter Scott [TG] 1827

207 circa, sometime in the summer. Emperor Severus reaches hill between Frith of Cromarty and Frith of Moray against Caledonians. Severus retires to York. Tytler’s History of Scotland and Britannica 3.

Frith of Moray, with Cromarty above Dingwall. (Dingwall is a character in Disney’s Brave.)

547 Flamborough. Ida, son of Woden, landed at Flamborough. Ida founded Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Ida’s kingdom reaches from Humber to the Forth rivers.   Ida was succeeded by Aella, then Ethelred, then Edwin. Tytler’s Britannica 7.

Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopeadia Britannica 56.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD

A.D. 1331. Sometime this year. The Teutonic knights settle in Prussia.

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. The Crown of France claimed by Edward III. (ancestor of Scots and English royal lines).

A.D. 1331. Sometime this year. The Teutonic knights settle in Prussia.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. The Crown of France claimed by Edward III. (ancestor of Scots and English royal lines).

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Gunpowder invented by Swartz, a monk of Cologne.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Oil-painting said to have been invented by John Van E1k.
  2. A.D. Sometime this year. Petrarch the poet crowned at Rome.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Battles of Cressy and Durham; siege of Calais.

 

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Rienzi tribune of the people at Rome.
  1. A.D. Sometime this year. John II, “Le Bon” King of France 1319-

 

1364 married Jutte Bonne of Bohemia 1315-1345 (3rd great grand father of Mary VAN EGMOND VAN GEIRE of Gueldres, Queen of Scotland (1433-1463) to James 2nd Stewart King of Scots.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. The Turks first enter Europe.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Battle of Poictiers; Edward the Black Prince.

 

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Law pleadings, in England changed from French to English.

 

1485 Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond’s first attempt to invade England in 1483 was frustrated by a storm, but his second arrived unopposed on 1 August 1485 on the southwest coast of Wales. His daughter became Queen Margaret Stewart (nee Tudor, later Dowager Queen of Scots), mother of all future Kings and Queens of Scotland, after 1513, and of England after 1603.

1503 Margaret Stewart (nee Tudor) crossed the border at Berwick upon Tweed , Margaret was met by the Scottish court at Lamberton. Her first night in Scotland was spent at Fast Castle.

Berwick on River Tweed at the border. With Edinburgh, Leith, Pinkie.

1545 Birth of Andrew Melville, founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

1560 – the Scottish Parliament met at Edinburgh to settle religious issues. Knox and five other ministers were called upon to draw up a new confession of faith. John Wishart of Pitarrow is one of commissioners of burghs.

 

1597 The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597. The witch hunt was most frequent in Fife, Perthshire, Glasgow, Stirlingshire and Aberdeenshire, all between 4 March and October. James 6th published his book about witchcraft. James prosecuted hundreds who were burned or hanged. By 1 August, the Aitken Commission was stopped, and in 12 August, the commissions were ordered to stop the trials until the claims could be better examined. Wikipedia.

1600 Gowrie Conspiracy. James VI Stewart surprised John Ruthven’s estate with an unannounced arrival. (TG33-200) Sir John Ramsay stabbed Ruthven with a dagger. (33-202) Gowrie-house, ancestral home of Earl John; King James 6th had the Earl of Gowrie and brother Alexander Ruthven murdered. Gowrie’s supporters (witnesses) were rounded up and also murdered (without trial). Sir Thomas Erskine and Sir Hugh (33-203) Herries killed the Earl Gowrie. Lord Erskine seized Gowrie’s property. Ruthven arms and name were banished and wiped out. Another brother was captured and imprisoned for 2 decades. Youngest brother William escaped to France and disappeared over the seas, a generation later, William’s son reappeared in Virginia as William Ruffin.

Earl John was a descendant of Margaret Tudor (Stewart) and Henry Stewart Lord Methven’s son, the Master of Methven (died at Pinkie 1547). Thus Gowrie was also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth and descendant of Henry VII, and a potential claimant to the throne of England. Gowrie’s father had been one of the 24 Lords of the Congregation, from 1559, and a close ally with the English protestant Queen Elizabeth. As Queen Elizabeth was aging, and had few other descendants of Henry VIII, James eliminated his competitor.

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Herries Crest: A stag’s head with ten tynes Argent. Motto: DOMINUS DEDIT. [from Latin: “The Lord has given”].

1647 Army offers the Heads of Proposals.

1714 Queen Anne expired, the Last of the lineal Stewart race who sat on the throne of Britain. She was fifty years old, having Reigned for twelve years; (TG66-225) Tytler’s Briannica 225. Sister of Queen Mary, daughter of James VII of Scotland (James II of England).

1715 – death of Louis XIV. (TG66-248

1743 death of Richard Savage. subject of Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage (1744), on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets.

1746 Dress Act 1746.

1759 Battle of Minden, North Germany – David Boswell, a merchant for ten years in Valencia in Spain, where he adopted the name of Thomas, instead of David, the Spaniards having a prejudice against that name David, imagining that it belongs to the ‘hated race of the Jews’. On returning to England (now) Thomas, was employed in the Navy Office, and was for twenty years at the head of the Prize department. He was a proprietor of Crawley Grange, Buckinghamshire, and married Anne Catherine, daughter of Colonel Green, killed at the battle of Minden, and sister of Sir Charles Green, baronet, leaving, at his decease, in 1826, an only son, Thomas Alexander Boswell of Crawley Grange.

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The father of the Marquis de Lafayette was killed in this battle of Minden. The British regiments which fought at Minden included 25th of Foot (King’s Own Scottish Borderers). The descendants of these are still known as “the Minden Regiments.” When the British infantry and artillery were first advancing to battle they passed through some German gardens and the soldiers plucked roses and stuck them in their coats. In memory of this, each of the Minden regiments marks 1 August as Minden Day. On this day the men of all ranks wear roses in their caps.

The 25th Foot at Minden

1798 Battle of the Nile: “England knows Lady Hamilton,’’ and Sir Horatio Nelson.

The Battle of the Nile, Thomas Luny, 1830, National Maritime Museum.

Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, Thomas Whitcombe, 1816, National Maritime Museum – the climax of the battle, as Orient explodes

1799 Bay of Aboukir, Egypt. Admiral Nelson attacked French Fleet. The French flay ship, L’Orient, 120 guns, blew up. Tytler’s Britannica 259.

 

1831 Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (b 01.01.1748, died 01.07.1831). married 1. (17.10.1774) Anne Gilchrist (d 13.10.1784, daughter of Capt. James Gilchrist Royal Navy).

 

1831 Sabbath. Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King O Scots) Doctrine and Covenants 58. Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

 

1840 Date set to abolish colonial slavery, by the reformed parliament, with 20 million Pounds Sterling voted to compensate the slave owners. Tytler’s Britannica 281.

 

1866 John Ross, Cherokee chief, (October 3, 1790 – August 1, 1866), son of Mollie McDonald, a quarter Cherokee and three quarters Scots, and Daniel Ross, a Scots immigrant trader.   Mollie’s mother Anna was the daughter of Ghigooie (Cherokee) and William Shorey, Scotts interpreter. Anna married john McDonald. John was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native American Nation from 1828–1866. Described by European Americans as the Moses of his people, Ross led the Nation through tumultuous years of development, relocation to Indian (Oklahoma) territory, and the American Civil War.

House built in early 19th century by John McDonald, maternal grandfather of John Ross. Now called the John Ross House, it was occupied by Ross’ daughter and her husband Nicholas Scales. It is still standing at Rossville, Georgia.

1876 Colorado statehood, and Scots place names –

Adams County, Arlington, Ault (originally called McAllister – both Scottish names), Avon, Brighton, Burns, Castle Rock, Clifton, Craig, Crawford, Dallas, Duncan, Dunton, Fort Lyon, Fleming, Fraser, Garfield, Georgetown, Glendale, Gleneagle, Glenwood Springs, Greenland, Hamilton, Henderson, Hillside, Inverness, Jamestown, Kirk, Lewis, Littleton, Lochbuie, Lyons, McClintock, McCoy, Middleton, Moffat, Montrose, Morrison, Orchard, Roxborough Park, Sawpit, Springfield, Sterling, Thornton, Waverly, Weston.

 

1935 The 39 Steps (1935) Smith finds a map of Scotland clutched in her hand, with a town circled. He sneaks out of the watched apartment disguised as a milkman and boards a train to Scotland.

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1897 David O. McKay, age 24, from 1951 9th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Father from Thurso, Scotland. Elder McKay set apart by President Seymour B. Young to serve as a missionary in the British Isles. Worked in Stirling Scotland.

David O. McKay.

1941 Truant Officer Donald is aTechnicolor film by Walt Disney Productions released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures.

Donald Duck (clan McDuck).

 

1971 Apollo 15 Scott and Irwin (both of Scots descent) on the Moon.

Jim Irwin salutes the United States flag on the Moon on August 1, 1971.

 

 

1975 Molly Lenore Choate born (multi great grand daughter of Henry Tudor).

 

1984 Justin Millanito Masayon born. (descendant of Andrew Stewart Lord Ochiltree, through his grandmother Billie Jo Masayon (nee Choate))

 

2005 Nathan Wayne Cook born, (many great grand son of Hugh Cochrane, and other clans – Margaret Stewart)

 

2012 Humor back in the day of dentures. Old Tam, having lost his teeth, preferred gumming because his dentures hurt. His Elder visited and noted that Tam had a bowl of almonds. “Me broth’a gave me those, but Ah dinnae want ‘em, ye can have ‘em” said Old Tam. Hungry, the Elder replied, ‘Thank ye, Ah luv almonds.’ The Elder tucked into them and after a few mouth fulls, said “Thae was a funny present to give uh man wie no teeth.” To which Old Tam replied “Nae really, ‘ey had chocolate on ‘em……”

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