February 2  Candlemas Old Scottish term days corresponded approximately to the auld Celtic quarter days.

Or Ground Hogs Day.

In Scotland, the poem:

If Candle-mas Day is bright and clear,

There’ll be two winters in the year.

If Candle mas be fair and bright,

Winter has another flight.

If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,

Winter will not come again.  Wikepedia

2 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE (CANDLEMAS) – may be celebrated on the Sunday between 28 January and 3 February

1010 Battle of Barrie – Scottish warrior slew the Danish General Camus. King Máel Coluim II of Scotland dipped three fingers into the bluid of the slain and drew them down the shield of the warrior. The warrior was named Marbhachir Chamius or Camus Slayer. Ever since then the Chief of the Clan Keith has borne the same mark of three red lines on his arm.

Keith          Crest: Out of a crest coronet Or, a roebuck’s head Proper, attired Or. Motto: VERITAS VINCIT.
[from Latin: “Truth conquers”].

Chief: James William Falconer Keith, 14th Earl of Kintore

Seat:  Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire

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 DUNNOTTAR CASTLE. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.212

1141 the battle of Lincoln. Stephen and his army besieged Lincoln Castle at the start of 1141, Robert of Gloucester and Ranulf of Chester advanced on the king’s position with a somewhat larger force.

illustration of the battle of Lincoln; Stephen (fourth from the right)) is listening to Baldwin of Clare orating a battle speech (left).

1274 assassination plot against Llywelyn the Last (d. 1282) prevented by snowstorm.

1356 Edward III moved against the Scots—in January 1356 Edward led his forces into the south-east of Scotland and burned Edinburgh and Haddington and much of the Lothians in a campaign that became known as the ‘Burnt Candlemas’.  After Edward III’s victory over France in September, the Scots resumed negotiations for David’s release ending in October 1357 with the Treaty of Berwick.  Edward 3^rd was the great grandfather of Joan Queen of to James 1^st King of Scots.

 Edinburgh. Photograph by Allan Baxter/Getty. Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, at twilight. Most of the country’s five million people live in the lowland area of  Edinburgh and Glasgow.

1400 At Candlemas  George I, Earl of March and Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy had entered Scotland and laid waste as far as Papple in East Lothian. The villages of Traprain, Markle and Hailes were burnt and two unsuccessful attempts were made to invest Hailes Castle. The Archibald Douglas, Master of Douglas, Duke of Touraine, Earl of Douglas, and Wigtown, 13^th  Lord of Annandale, 1401/9-24 Lord of Annandale  [George de Dunbar, 12^th  Lord of Annandale, 1369-1401/9 (although under part English control until 1384; conquered by Douglas in 1401 after Dunbar went over to the English; Douglas possession confirmed in 1409)], Galloway 13^th  Lord of Douglas,who held the office of Lord Warden of the Marches, surprised them by night at their camp near East Linton and defeated the English Force. The Douglases chased the enemy away as far as Berwick upon Tweed, slaughtering many stragglers in the woods near Cockburnspath.

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Annandale, named for the river Annan, in Dumfries and Galloway, is named for locations in Pasadena, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Virginia.  In Virginia Annandale is a census place in Fairfax county.

1424 Joan, Lady Jane Beaufort, daughter of the Earl of Somerset,  marries James I Stewart, King, at Southwark Cathedral.

 James I (Seumas I Stiùbhairt) 1406–1437 & Joan Beaufort Southwark Cathedral.

1461 – Owen Tudor, died, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England (executed after the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross), eventual ancestors of kings and Queens of Scotland and England.

1553 – Cranmer was ordered to appoint  John Knox as vicar of Allhallows Church in London placing him under the authority of the Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley. Knox returned to London in order to deliver a sermon before the king and the court during Lent and he again refused to take the assigned post. Knox was then told to preach in Buckinghamshire and he remained there until Edward’s death on 6 July.

 1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic,  or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1  Mosiah 27:31, Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, Doctrine and Covenants 88:104

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1626 James Stanley, 7^th  Earl of Derby KG (31 January 1607 – 15 October 1651) Earl of Derby was created a Knight of the Bath on occasion of the coronation of Charles I of England. He was joined with his father the same year as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and chamberlain of Chester. He assisted in the administration of the Isle of Man and was appointed in 1627 as Lord of Mann.

James Stanley, 7^th  Earl of Derby , Great Earl of Derby,  National Heritage.

1645 Battle of Inverlochy (1645), During the Civil War the Clan Ogilvy supported the Royalist cause. They fought under clan Graham the James Graham, 1^st  Marquess of Montrose and fought with him.

 Tomb of James Graham, 1^st  Marquess of Montrose at St Giles High Kirk of Edinburgh.

1660 Monck’s Regiment of Foot. (soon to be named Majesty’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards) arrived in London on 2 February and helped in the Restoration of the monarchy. For his help, Monck was given the Order of the Garter and his regiment was assigned to keep order in London. However, the new parliament soon ordered his regiment to be disbanded with the other regiments of the New Model Army. Didn’t happen.

1708 [Robert Miller II of St. Quivox] delivered a second homily on Psalms 94/19.

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days.

1780 Edinburgh,  The people burn the house of the Roman Catholic bishop in opposition to the removal of penal statutes. Disqualifications of professors of Roman Catholic in England were removed by parliament, but disqualification had not been so removed in Scotland.  Tytler Britiannica.

1781 Admiral Rodney captures the Dutch island of St Eustatia, 250 ships and 3 millions sterling.

1822 Jane Cochrane (d 22.06.1830) married (06.02.1822) Sir Henry W. Bruce (d 14.09.1863, Vice Admiral. (clans Cochrane and Bruce.)

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2012  Humor, more from back in the day.  Stewart was pushing his car. Somerville saw Stewart and offered help. ‘Ge behin’ ane push,’ Stewart instructed. After pushing past some gas stations, Somerville asked, ‘why dinna ye fill up back there?’ ‘Oh, car’s not oot  o’ gas, just savin’ gas by getting help to home. Passers-by think Ah’ve run oot and help push.’

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2013 Osmond comes up smelling of roses with Killie fans.

NUMBER ONE FAN: American superstar Marie Osmond holds up the Scottish Communities League Cup on a visit to Kilmarnock FC’s Rugby Park. Pictures: Martin Shields.

Her appearance at the club, she explained, was all down to a chance meeting in Las Vegas with life-long fan Robert Morton who asked her to sign a Kilmarnock shirt.

She said: “I had no idea Paper Roses was a football theme song until Robert came to Las Vegas and told me in 2009. I have followed them ever since.”

Osmond, who hosted TV variety show Donny & Marie with her famous brother, was presented with a book of Burns poetry and a commemorative glass bowl. But it was her flirting and wisecracks that really got the crowd going.

Sitting for a question-and-answer session, she beckoned over her kilted interviewer and proceeded to rub his bare legs, leaving him thoroughly tongue-tied.

Asked for her beauty tips, she responded: “Just be a Killie fan.”

Osmond was presented with a named shirt and pledged to stay “forever a Killie girl”.

All that was left then was for her to take the microphone, down her bottle of water and serenade the crowd with a live performance of Paper Roses.

For their part the crowd stood and swayed with scarves in the air and sang back twice as hard.

And then it was over. Osmond insisted on seeing the stadium before rushing off to her gig.

And fans were left to stagger home wondering what exactly they had just witnessed.

“Absolutely brilliant,” muttered life-long supporter William Walters, 65, as he pulled on his woolly hat to leave. “Never seen a day like that. And we’ll never see a day like it again.”