February 3 – 865 Anskar, Archbishop of Bremen, Missionary in Denmark and Sweden. Feast Day.

 

897 sometime in, pestilences reported. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’  Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1368  James Blair of that ilk, adherent of King David Bruce,

Brus or Bruce 1050 2Stewart2Kennedy 2Montgomery2Blair 2Cochrane2Miller 2Simmons2Choate Anne Elizabeth Grace ToaG

grant of lands around town of Ayr, confirmed by charter under the great seal from King David,dated at Edinburgh, 3rd  February 1368, in the 39th year of David’s reign.  Anderson v. 1/p. 319.

Blair Ilk 1205 2Cochrane2 Miller2 Simmons2 Choate2 Julia Clare ToaG

1472 or 1488  sometime this year.  King James III (clan Stewart) had the Pope suppress the Coldingham Priory, Berwickshire, and it became a collegiate church, so giving James easier access to Priory funds. To the Church he added an annexe known as the “Chapel of the King of Scots”.

 Likely doorway to this demolished chapel; the doorway was blocked up 1850 AD.

 

1586 Ten members of the Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council of England, having been summoned by Cecil without Elizabeth’s knowledge, decided to carry out the sentence of death on Mary Queen of Scots at once.   Wikipedia gives the year as 1587, but notes Mary was arrested the previous August 11, 1586.  As both England and Scotland were on the March 25th  to March 24th calendar year, it would still be 1586 in February in both countries.

Photo by John Choate of Poster at National Security Agency Fort Meade Maryland, showing a substitution code used by Mary Queen of Scots, while captive at Fotheringhay estate. Cryptographic code.  The English Cabinet broke the code and used the messages as evidence in Mary’s trial for treason.

 

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,  and smart phones, and internet, 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”.

 

1646 Siege of Chester ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison after a 136 day siege.

 

1701 The Darien colony between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the Americas. Sometime  in February. Notwithstanding the interest in Scots’ welfare which King William II (2nd of Scotland after William the Lion, and 3rd of England after William the Conqueror and William Rufus), evinced, by desiring the accomplishment of an union (of Scots and English), the people of Scotland could not forget the wrongs which they had received concerning the Darien project; and their sullen resentment showed itself in every manner, excepting open rebellion, during the remainder of his reign.  (Half the Scots’ national capital was invested in the Darien colony project and was lost with its collapse and abandonment.)

Warrant relating to money owed to a sailor on one of the expedition’s ships, 1707. www.rbs.com

We the Directors of the Indian and African Company of Scotland, especially nominated and approved by the Court of Directors of the said Company, for the effect underwriters, D, in performance of the 15th Article of the Treaty of Union, and the 15th Act of the last session of Her Majesty Queen Ann’s last Parliament holden here, Certify and Declare, That out of the Benevolent therin mentioned, there is due and payable to John Bankin for his Service in the Quality of sailor on board of the said Company’s Ship the  Rising Suns  the Sum of Six pounds Six Shillings and Six pence, Sterling Money, Conform to his Account on Page 31 of the subscribed ship list given in to the Lord Clerk Register and Folio 12 of the Ship’s Book, *8 any Diligence affecting the same as the Thirteenth Day of June last inclusive & Sign’d at Edinburgh the Fourteenth Day of August 1707.  To the Honourable commissioner appointed by her Majesty for Dispensing of the Equivalent.

 

1745 Council of war at Fairnton proposes retreat (Young pretender).

1824 – Ranald MacDonald, born, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894).

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. Although 25 March Old Style marked the beginning of the civil year, the next day, 26 March Old Style was until 1752 the beginning of the tax year.

1830 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 signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures, a form per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

27th        form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Helaman

1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish aviator born (d. 1973)

Hamilton – Florida

 

1924 Woodrow Wilson (Scottish) (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) 28th  President, 1913-21: . Wilson’s mother was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, the daughter of Rev. Dr Thomas Woodrow born in Paisley, Scotland and Marion Williamson, from Glasgow, who emigrated to America in the 1830s. Wilson’s career reflected his ancestral values for knowledge and fulfillment.  

  1. was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina. After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a new graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.

usstampgallery.com

 

1941 Whisky Galore June 1949 film based on the real-life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician near the island of Eriskay. with the attempts of Scottish islanders to take advantage of an unexpected windfall, The film was shot on the island of Barra in 1948.

The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing (during World War 2).

Map with the Outer Hebrides in the North Atlantic.

 

1954 Rob Roy movie, Walt Disney Productions released. Richard Todd (Irish born) who had acted in the Dundee Repertory (Scotland). Soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders returning from the Korean War provide battle scenes.

The year is 1716. Rob Roy leads his McGregor clansmen against King George I’s forces commanded by the Scottish Duke of Argyll (clan Campbell) While determined to establish order in the Highlands, Argyll is sympathetic to “the bonny blue bonnets” whom he is fighting. Rob Roy marries. All clans involved in the rising of 1715 are pardoned except for the McGregors. Rob Roy is arrested and the Clan McGregor is deprived of the right to use its name (i.e. the name is banned, everyone has to change their name, many assume Brown.)

Banning names in order to destroy families, was an ancient practice in Scotland. For instance, in 1600 James 6th banned the clan name Ruthven, which ban continued for 3 generations.

 

1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

 

1996  Scotsman’s, Angus MacRory, in “It’s a Plaid, Plaid, Plaid, Plaid World” episode in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries.

2005 Melania Knauss married Donald John Trump, Sr. on January 22, 2005 (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (Donald born June 14, 1946).

Vogue  Donald Trump’s New Bride.

 

2013 Humor.  For centuries,  teams of horses and carriages travel the narrow one lane roads of Sodor island of the Hebrides Scotland, with embassies and nobles. But unlike times of yore, the carriages ntw carry tourists.  After the harsh snows and winds of winter, the spring thaw began.  Birds welcomed the new season with hatching chicks.  But it was still quite bitter, compared to Cornwall or Caliais far to the south, on the English channel.  One chick, trying to exercise, before it could truly fly, fell from its nest, onto the cobblestone road.  A passerby saw the chick, shivering and starting to freeze, and also saw a fresh warm cow pie from the teams,  in the road, still steaming. He picked up the chick and put it in the cow pie for warmth.  The warmth did indeed refresh the chick, which soon began to chirp and sing as before.  Hearing the singing, a cat was drawn to the spectacle, and pulling the chick from the cow pie, gobbled down the chick.  The moral for this tale was thus. ‘’First, he who hae’ put ye in it is not necessarily your enemy.   Second, the wan who pulled ye oot is nae necessarily your friend. Finally, when ye find that ye are up tae your neck in cow pie, dinnae sing like a canary.’’