December 16 1332 Battle of Annan Second War of Scottish Independence Annan, Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. In it the Bruce loyalist supporters of King David II of Scotland surprised Edward Balliol and his supporters while they were in bed, and completely threw them out of Scotland. The Bruce loyalists were led by Sir Archibald Douglas, supported by John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, the Steward, the future Robert II of Scotland, and Simon Fraser.  Brus or Bruce 1050 2Stewart 2Kennedy 2Montgomery 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate zoe ToaG

1411 Toggenburg Bible Switzerland. The location and blisters is consistent with smallpox. Disease theory waited until 1850 with Pasteur explaining   germs and infection.

Smallpox is spread human to human with no intervening vector.

1585 William Drummond, poet, born

1653 Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland on December 16, 1653. (born 25 Apr 1599 clan Stewart, died 3 Sep 1658). Sir Walter Scott’s “Woodstock”, which is set in 1651 “There is no help for it,” he said; “it must be Cromwell or anarchy. And probably the sense that his title, as head of the Executive Government, is derived merely from popular consent, may check the too natural proneness of power to render itself arbitrary. If he govern by Parliaments, and with regard to the privileges of the subject, wherefore not Oliver as well as Charles?’’ Listed as Lady Diana Spencer’s (Mother of heirs Prince William and Henry) 1st cousin 11 times removed.

1682 Annie Laurie born, died 5 April 1764. Barjarg Tower, in Keir, near Auldgirth, Scotland. William Douglas became a soldier in the Royal Scots and fought in Germany and Spain. Romance and poem.

Maxwelton’s braes are bonnie, Where early fa’s the dew,

Twas there that Annie Laurie Gi’ed me her promise true.

Gi’ed me her promise true –

Which ne’er forgot will be, And for bonnie Annie Laurie

I’d lay me down and dee.

Her brow is like the snaw-drift, Her neck is like the swan,

Her face it is the fairest, That ‘er the sun shone on.

That ‘er the sun shone on –

And dark blue is her e’e, And for bonnie Annie Laurie

I’d lay me down and dee.

Like dew on gowans lying, Is the fa’ o’ her fairy feet,

And like winds, in simmer sighing, Her voice is low and sweet.

Her voice is low and sweet – And she’s a’ the world to me;

And for bonnie Annie Laurie I’d lay me down and dee.

  • In February 1890 Lady John Scott (1810–1900) [1] (née Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) wrote to the editor of the Dumfries Standard, claiming that she had composed the tune. In the 1850s Lady John published the song with some other songs of hers for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed in the Crimean War. The song became popular and was closely associated with Jenny Lind

Annie Laurie’s Kirk or Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, is a copy of Annie’s village church in Glencairn, Scotland. Over 60,000 people have actually been married here, including Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. Wikipedia.

  • Wee Kirk O’The Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Reconstruction of Annie Laurie’s church,Glencairn, Scotland, Erected 1310, Destroyed 1805. Except the Lord Build the House They Labor in Vain who Build it. 1310-1329

1688 London. James II (of England, 7th of Scotland, Clans Stewart, Douglas, Drummond, BRuce), King, forcibly returned. James asked to retire to Rochester. Tytler’s Britannica.

1689 Bill of Rights “An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown”. Rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law, and condemned James II of England for “causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law”. The term Bill of Rights was preserved in describing the Amendments of the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1791. The English Convention (1689) was an irregular assembly of the Parliament of England which transferred the Crowns of England and Ireland from James II to William III.

www.xlimeline.com William III and Mary II

1773 Boston tea party. Was a resistance movement throughout colonial America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament on May 10, 1773. The Tea Act was responding to economic depression from London to Glasgow, to collect Townsend duties (taxes). The depression was due to the contraction of currency, because of the bankruptcy of the Douglas, Heron Bank (Ayr Bank) suspending its payments 25 June 1772 in Edinburgh, and Glasgow. As loans were called in, forced sales depressed prices. Losses were a million pounds sterling, with hundreds of partners being wiped out, initially, and many debtors going to debtors prison. Many families of Ayrshire were buried in the fall of Douglas, Heron & Co., and among these unhappily was the laird of Dalfram. “In an evil hour,” says Cunningham, “when the love of making ‘meikle mair’ came upon him, he purchased shares in what Burns called ‘that villainous bubble the Ayr bank,’ and was involved in its ruin.”

Parliament responded to the Tea Party, in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston’s commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them.

Samuel Enderby Junior married Mary Goodwyn and had 8 children. Their daughter Elizabeth (1792–1873) married [she married Lt. Gordon who became) Major-General Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) (clan Gordon) and became the mother of 12 children one of whom became ‘Chinese Gordon’ or ‘Gordon of Khartoum’ born in 1833. The senior Samuel Enderby founded the Samuel Enderby & Sons company. In 1773 Enderby began the Southern Fishery, a whaling firm with ships registered in London and Boston. All of the captains and harpooners were American loyalists. The vessels transported finished goods to the American colonists, and brought whale oil back from New England to England. Some of Enderby’s ships were reportedly chartered for the tea cargoes that were ultimately dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party incident. Thus the connection between the Boston Tea Party and the Scots.

1829 Scots Roman Type,prepared in Glasgow Scotland (Alexander Wilson and Son. Scotch Roman is a class of typefaces popular in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom. These typefaces were modeled on a design known as Pica No. 2 from the Edinburgh foundry of  William Miller, the oldest surviving specimen of which dates to 1813, was cut by Richard Austin. The Font was 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, 37 signatures per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

16th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Alma. Palmyra Pageant circa 2013

1833 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 101. Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in abondage one to another.  And for this purpose have I established the [United States] Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the bshedding of blood. There was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. And there was a widow in that city, and she came unto him, saying: Avenge me of mine adversary.  And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself: Though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

1858 Donald SMITH and Mary MACAULEY were married on 16 Dec 1858 in Garrabost on the Isle of Lewis.  Mary MACAULEY was born about 1841 in Barvas, Ross and Cromary, Scotland. Great grandparents of Donald John Trump.

1937 Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge. Released.

1944 Soldiers in snow (Bastogne & Battle of the Bulge)

1994-06-06.

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Battle of the Ardennes, was fought from December 16, 1944, to January 31, 1945. Germany’s last major attempt to stop the Allied advance across France and the Low Countries. German forces drove a wedge–the “bulge”–into the Allied lines through the Ardennes on the Franco-Belgian frontier. They were halted, chiefly by U.S. forces, and forced to retreat. Snowstorms contributed to heavy casualties on both sides. The 7th/9th Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) took up a defensive position at Gillrath, three miles north-west of Geilenkirchen and within the frontier of the Reich. http://www.john-lowrie.com/friendship.html

American military cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium…5,329 souls (40% with scots ancestry). http://blackquillandink.com/?p=15894

 

1994 Chasing the Deer filmed in Scotland including the site of the Battle of Culloden. 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in which Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland, trying to claim the British throne.

Map with Battle of Culloden in the center. The route of the army went thru Perth, Donkeld, Athol, Blair of CastleMenzie, Garvimore, Fort Bardenoch, to Fort George. To the East was Dundee, (then south to North) the English camp, Inverary, Aberdeen, McLeods, Assemble of the English Army to pass the Spey, Spey River, Elgin, Cullen, Naim. To the West was Fort William, Fort Augustus, Lochaber, Standard first Raiseed, Secret of the Pass, Ross, Rout Inverness, Fort George/ To the North, Cromarty, Sutherland, Lord Loudan surpized, Rout of the Skround (?).

1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film) Professor Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason), a newly knighted geologist from the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student. When the group returns to Edinburgh, the four travelers are hailed as national heroes.

 

 

1983 U.S. Premiere opening of Mickey’s Christmas Carol. On Christmas Eve 1843, while all of Victorian England is in the merry spirit of Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck – clan McDuck) thinks only of the money he has made and of making more (apparently, he charges people 80% interest, compounded daily – not that much by today’s credit card charges). Scrooge’s cheery nephew Fred (Donald Duck) invites his crotchety uncle to a holiday feast fit for a Roman emperor — roast goose (!) with chestnut dressing, candied fruits, and cinnamon cake with lemon glaze.

2005 Lassie released. Described as adventure comedy drama. Based on the 1950 novel Lassie Come Home, and the 10 previous sequel Lassie movies, and the television series in the 1950s. Wikipedia plot. Sam Carraclough, a miner who struggles to earn enough money to feed his family, sells the family’s collie, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling, leaving his young son heartbroken over the loss of his canine companion. The film follows Lassie on the collie’s 500-mile journey from the Duke of Rudling’s estate in the Scottish Highlands to the Carraclough home. Filming took place in Scotland, Ireland and on the Isle of Man.  UK poster Lassie, a new classic for a new generation.

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