August 31 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previous, Byzantine Empress Theodora, dies without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. Theodora reigned jointly with her sister Zoe in 1042. Nearly a millennia later, Zoe becomes a popular name again. Zoe Elizabeth Nielsen [clans Armstrong, MacPherson, Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter, Meldrum, Cochrane).

1314 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.

Haakon V Magnusson (Håkon V Magnusson) 1299–1319. In 1468 Orkney Islands were pledged by Christian I, king of Norway, as security against the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland. Haakon V was succeeded (1319) by his grandson Magnus VII of Norway, succeeded (1343) by his son Haakon VI of Norway, succeeded (1380) by son Olaf IV Haakonsson (last Norwegian king born on Norwegian soil until 1937), succeeded by his Margaret (Dowager Queen to Haakon VI), succeeded by Eric III of Pomerania (Haakon V had Ingeborg of Norway and Eric Duke of Sodemanland had Euphemia of Sweden and Albert II Duke of Mecklenburg had Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg and Ingborg of Denmark had Maria of Mecklenburg Schwerin, had Eric of Pomerania) succeeded (1442) by Christopher of Bavaria, succeeded by Christian I (Albert II Duke of Mecklenburg and Euphemia had Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwein, had Gerhard VI, Cont of Holstein-Pendsurg and Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg had Helvig of Schauenburg and Dietrirch Count of Oldenburg, had Christian I).

Orkney Islands

Orkney south of Shetland Islands. Home of the Shetland pony.

1422 James I of Scots attends funeral retinue from France to England for Henry V of England who died of dysentery. Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months. Henry V’s widow, Catherine of Valois, daughter of the King of France, marries Owen Tudor, and becomes the ancestress of Margaret Tudor, who marries King James IV Stewart, and is ancestor of the Kings and Queens of Scotland and England.

Henry returned to France after the diastrous loss to a Scots army at the battle of Bauge March 22, 1421 (7 months earlier, not 19 months). ‘In England the news of Bauge, was met with shock, while Henry V reacted with a mix of grief for the death of his brother Clarence, and anger at Clarence inept performance. Henry prepared for an early return to France, leaving England for the last time in May 1421.

In the meantime the Dauphin Charles had taken to the field in person, at the head of a combined Franco-Scottish army, this time with a more substantial French component. This army began a siege of Chartres, but when Henry reached France the Dauphin retreated back south, unwell to risk facing him in battle. Henry V settled down to besiege Meaux, the main Dauphinist strongpoint near to Paris. The siege ended in success in May 1422,’

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1433 Peter of Luxembourg (1390 – 31 August 1433) died from the Black Death, a deadly form of bubonic plague. Peter was a son of John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir and his wife Marguerite of Enghien. His inheritance included the counties of Brienne, Conversano and Saint-Pol. His younger brother John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, an ally of the English during the Hundred Years War, received Joan of Arc as his prisoner, and subsequently sold her to the English, for 10,000 livres.

1490 Patry Folcart, Thomas Haliday and a part of the company of Robin Petitloch begin to be the first company of archiers de la garde du roi under the command of Guillaume Stuier (Stuart). At the beginning la compagnie écossaise des gardes du corps du roi included 100 gardes du corps (25 bodyguards and 75 archiers). In 1450, King James II sent a company of 24 noble Scots under the command of Patrick de Spens, son of his custodian. This company takes the name of archiers du corps or gardes de la manche. The Garde Écossaise (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁd ekɔsɛz], Scots Guard) was an elite Scottish military unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to the French monarchy.

1641 the Root and Branch Bill rejected by the Long Parliament.

1647 Montrose escaped from the Highlands

1688 John Bunyan, died, (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, who is well known for his book The Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan became a non-conformist and member of an Independent church, and although he has been described both as a Baptist and as a Congregationalist, he himself preferred to be described simply as a Christian. The Scottish philosopher David Hume used Bunyan to illustrate the idea of a “standard of taste” in aesthetic matters: ‘Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and Milton, or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravagance, than if he had maintained a mole-hill to be as high as Teneriffe, or a pond as extensive as the ocean.’ (Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste”, originally published in his Four Dissertations (1757). (grand hyperbole).

1714 – In a letter addressed to King George 1st, Earl of Mar expresses great apprehension that his loyalty or zeal for the King’s interest may have been misrepresented to his Majesty, because he found himself the only one of Queen Anne’s servants whom the Hanoverian ministers at the court of London did not visit. His lordship then pleads the loyalty of his ancestors, his own services at the Union, and in passing the Act of Succession; and, assuring the King that he will find him as faithful a subject and servant as ever any of his family had been to the preceding royal race, or as he himself had been to the late Queen; he conjures him not to believe any misrepresentations of his conduct, and concludes with a devout prayer for the quiet and peaceful reign of the Monarch, (TG66-240) the Earl of Mar embarked at Gravesend, in the strictest incognito, having for his companions Major-general Hamilton and Colonel Hay, men of some military experience. They sailed in a coal-sloop, working, it was said, their passage, the better to maintain their disguise, landed at Newcastle, (TG66-243)  Map showing Newcastle on Tyne north of Durham, south of alnwick, southeast of the Cheviot Hills.

1800 Walter Anderson, historian died. Minister of Chirnside, Berwickshire.

Chirnside Parish Church.

www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/

Bookseller Andrew Millar 6th (Clan Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

The History of France during the Reigns of Francis II and Charles IX to which is prefixed a review of the general history of the Monarchy from its origin to that period comprehending an account of the various revolutions, political government, laws and customs of the nation. Etc. London Printed for T. Calell {Successor to Mr. Millar} in the Strand. MDCCLXIX.

1813 Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

1813 Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

1st form, or 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 1st Nephi.

1854 “The Weather and Crops”. Inverness Courier. Inverness, The weather and crops report on famine in Scotland. the complete loss of the potato crop was being reported for local blackspots such as the Hebridean communities of Barra and Harris (where the blight was said to be more prevalent than in 1846). Wikipedia. Potato famine. Hundreds starved. Thousands fled Scotland.

1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

1995-06-29 usstampgallery.com

 

1871 James E. Ferguson (August 31, 1871 – September 21, 1944), 28th governor of Texas.

1954 The Maggie was played by two Hays boats in the film, the Boer and the Inca. Much of the film was shot on location at Islay with a wily Scottish captain.

1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. 9 Ancestry. Mother of Princes William and Henry (Harry).

Ancestors of [Diana Princess of Wales] Princess Diana’s scots ancestry included the Hamilton of Abercorn, Hamilton of Paisley, James Hamilton 2nd Earl of Arran Gordon-Lennox, Douglas of Morton,

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Blair, Maxwell of Monreith Wigtownshire,

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Ancestors of [James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn]

2005 Clarksville, Tennessee. Hurricane Katrina is downgraded to a tropical depression, but its remnants were last distinguishable in the eastern Great Lakes region on August 31, when it was absorbed by a frontal boundary, and moved into Canada. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan, Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, headquartered in New Orleans, and the US Coast Guard were providing relief and evacuation.

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Mayor Nagin [Democrat] of New Orleans and Louisiana Governor Blanco [Democrat] were criticized for failing to implement New Orleans’ evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Nagin [Democrat] delayed his emergency evacuation order until 19 hours before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who could not find any way out of [New Orleans]. Wikipedia

2007 Hallam Foe released. Scottish drama film directed by David Mackenzie.

Teenage loner who lives on his father’s large estate near Peebles, travels to Edinburgh.

 

2014 Virginia Scottish Games.

2014  149th Scottish Highland Gathering and Games featuring the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band and the 1st Battalion Scots Guards takes place at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Labor Day weekend (August 30-31, 2014)

www.thescottishgames.com/

 

 

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