February 25 138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making Antonius Hadrian’s successor.

 Louvre Emperor Hadrian, whose wall separated the barbarians (eventually Scotland) from the Romans (Britain then eventually Angleterre to England.) Hadrian (Latin: Publius Aelius Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus 24 January 76 – 10 July 138), was a Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian is best known for building Hadrian’s Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain. In Rome, Hadrian re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. The Temple worked, but the wall did not keep out the northern people (Picts or Scots) when they wanted to cross it.

Hadrian’s Wall (Vallum Hadriani), a fortification in Northern England (viewed from Vercovicium). An unnamed member of fictional clan McDuck sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian’s wall.

 1412 Bishop Henry Wardlaw established St Andrews as a “university” although it was not officially inaugurated until 4 February 1414 when a Bull of Foundation was promulgated by Pope Benedict XIII. The Mace of the Faculty of Arts is the University’s oldest mace. It was commissioned in January 1416, The mace has a three-tiered hexagonal head. Figures of St Michael, St Margaret of Antioch, St John the Baptist, the Virgin and Child, St Andrew, and St Leonard or St Ninian. On the lower stage are angels bearing the coats of arms of important figures in the University’s early history: the King of Scots [James 1], Bishop of St Andrews Henry Wardlaw, the Earl of Mar [Alexander Stewart], the Earl of Douglas [Archibald 4th Earl of Douglas] and the Duke of Albany [Robert Stewart].

  The Mace of the Faculty of Arts

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1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth (1st after 1952) of England. Pius V   supported the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. This will doom Mary.

 

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 27:31, Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, 88:104

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

 

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. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field. The Mesolithic “calendar” is thousands of years older than previous known formal time-measuring monuments created in Mesopotamia.

 

1765 Jean Armour (25 February 1765 – 26 March 1834), also known as the “Belle of Mauchline”, was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. Born in Mauchline, Ayrshire in 1765, Jean Armour was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour (died 1798) and Mary Smith Armour. Wikipedia.

 Statue of Jean Armour in Dumfries

 

Full view of the Naysmith portrait of 1787. Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits, including Burns, and Armour, appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah 22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men –

1813 Lord Wellington defeated the French at Orthes. Tytler’s Britannica.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 43. Sometime in February. And again, the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven, saying: Hearken, O ye nations of the earth, and hear the words of that God who made you. O, ye nations of the earth, how often would I have gathered ye together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not! How oft have I called upon ye by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of thunderings, and by the voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of famines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of a trump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of mercy all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the riches of eternal life, and would have saved ye with an ieverlasting salvation, but ye would not!

1836 siege at The Alamo Mission San Antonio, Texas Republic (February 23 – March 6, 1836) ends at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6 with list of Scots defenders. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston. [clan Ralston]

1935 Michigan Texas Connecticut California

 

1868 George Archibald McCall Major General 1822 (26), 1802 – February 25, 1868. Second Seminole War. Mexican-American War, Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma. Peninsula Campaign.

1950 February 25: Howard W. Hunter, (clan Hunter) called as president of the Pasadena Stake, Howard W. Hunter becomes 14th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1994. The Hunters are from Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland. President Howard W. Hunter: The Lord’s “Good and Faithful Servant” Ensign Apr 1995.

2008 Reid Neibaur Nibley died. (clan Wilson) 5 jan 1923 Calif – 25 feb 2008 Hymn – I Know My Father Lives 302

Reid Nibley Emeritus Professor. Great grandson of Charles Nibley from Hunterfield, Midlothian, Scotland and great grandson of James Nibley and Jean Wilson.

2011 The Duke of Cambridge (known at university St Andrews as ‘William Wales’). The Duchess of Cambridge (known at university by her maiden name ‘Catherine Middleton’); on 25 February 2011, the couple paid an official visit to the university so that Prince William could give a speech for the university’s 600th anniversary. University of St Andrews, Scotland Saint Andrew, Patron saint of Scotland. Other royal alum was King James II Stewart of Scotland.

 Middleton Crest: Issuing out of a tower Sable, a lion rampant Gules, armed and langued Azure. Motto: FORTIS IN ARDUS. [from Latin: “Brave in difficulty”].