February 7 – 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward 2^nd of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales. King Edward (who would be called the First -1^st at his death) promised the Welsh a Welsh King, so he sent his Queen to Wales to give birth. The surname Wales is used by Royal officers Princes William and Harry in the Royal Forces serving in Afghanistan during the NATO operations circa 2010 and Prince William.

Afghan Hound Stamps. Gairsaywww.animalstamps.com

Prince William Wales in uniform – El príncipe Guillermo. http://www.diarioinformacion.com/vida-y-estilo/gente/2008/05/27/principe-guillermo-joven-realeza-deseado/759463.html

1313 Robert the Bruce captured Dumfries.

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1587 Fotheringhay castle, Mary Queen of Scots was told that she was to be executed the next morning. Tytler’s Britannica lists the 7^th for the execution.

Photo by John Choate. Mary Queen of Scots cryptograic code used while held captive at Fotheringhay. Book in the collection of the National Security Agency’s Museum and Library Fort Mead Maryland.

1592 2^nd Earl of Moray, James Stewart, murdered at Donibristle, Daigety Bay, Fife, Firth of Forth, North Sea, Scotland.

 The Bonnie Earl of Moray, anonymous “vendetta portrait” of the murdered James Stewart, 2^nd Earl of Moray, 1592. Son of James Stewart 1^st Lord Doune, son of Sir james Stewart. Sir James was brother to Henry Stewart 1^st Lord Methven and 3rd husband to Margaret Tudor Dowager Queen; another brother was Andrew Stewart 1^st Lord Ochiltree (whose granddaughter Nan married Andrew Millar 1^st). All three James – Henry – Andrew were sons of Andrew Stewart 1^st Lord Avondale (died at Battle of Flodden 1513), son of Alexander Stewart, son of Walter Stewart Baron of Morphie (wife Elizabeth Arnot), son of Walter Stewart (died 1425) (wife Janet Erskine), son of Murdoch Stewart Duke of Albany (died 1425) (wife Isabella of Lennox), son of Robert Stewart Duke of Albany(wife Margaret of Menteith), son of Robert 2^nd Stewart King of Scots (wife Elizabeth Mure), son of Walter 6^th High Stewart of Scotland (wife Marjorie Bruce), daughter of Robert 1^st of Scotland ‘the Bruce’ King (died 1316) (wife Isabella of Mar), etc.

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, or 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”.

1601 charter under the great feal of king James VI, of the lands and barony of Cochrane, to and in favours of Alexander Cochrane, alias Blair, third lawful fon of John Blair of that ilk, and Elizabeth Cochrane his fpoufe, third lawful daughter of William Cochrane of that ilk, dated 7^th February 1601. Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs of William Cochrane of that ilk, married to her coufin Alexander Blair, a younger fon of John Blair of that ilk (an ancient and honorable family in the fhire of Renfrew) by Grizel his wife, daughter of Robert lord Semple, who immediately after his marriage affumed the name and arms of Cochrane, according to the above entail.

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 James VI. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company.

1603 Battle of Glen Fruin saw Luss invaded by the Clan Gregor in 1603 and the defeat of five hundred Clan Colquhoun men, three hundred of whom were on horseback, by four hundred MacGregor Clan Gregor men.

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1649 Rump Parliament votes to abolish the English monarchy.

1696 The Darien colony, Isthmus between Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Sometime in February. But it was not the Scots alone whose hopes were excited by the rich prospects held out to them. An offer being made by the managers of the Company,  [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-32] to share the expected advantages of the scheme with English and foreign merchants, it was so eagerly grasped at, that three hundred thousand pounds of stock was subscribed for in London within nine days after opening the books. The merchants of Hamburgh and of Holland subscribed two hundred thousand pounds.

‘A Pill for the Pork Eaters, or a Scots lancet for an English Swelling’

Then England for its treachery should mourn,

Be forced to fawn, and truckle in its turn:

Scots pedlars ye no longer durst upbraid,

And DARIEN should with interest be repaid.

Quotation from a popular eighteenth century Scottish ballad.

The Aftermath and Legacy

 The royal charter establishing The Royal Bank of Scotland, 1727.

The Isthmus of Darien two centuries later styled Panama) was unsettled by Indians, Spanish or Portuguese, for a very real reason, because it’s mosquitoes were infected with Yellow Fever, a microbial pathogen, which killed off the human settlers. Prevention and cure had to wait two centuries until Pasteur’s discovery of the microbial theory of disease, in the 1850’s, and then another half century when Colonel Walter Reed’s clinical trial confirmed the discovery of the transfer of the pathogen to humans by the vector of mosquitoes, in 1900. Defeat Mosquitoes, and defeat the Yellow Jack. A Scottish Cuban physician had recognized the mosquito as the source of yellow fever, but government’s ignored his research, until Reed. Reed’s discovery lead to examining fleas and ticks, and other insects in the spread of infectious disease.

The Darien Scheme – 1698. The first ships set off as part of the Darien scheme to establish a trading colony in Panama. Within a year hundreds were dead from disease and starvation and Scotland was bankrupt. Video: Scotland’s Empire: The Americas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/union_and_jacobites/the_darien_scheme/

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 Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 has the same months and month lengths as the Julian calendar, but inserts leap days according to a different rule.

1786 – Disney’s A Christmas Carol, birth date appearing on the tomb stone for Ebenezer Scrooge, 7 February 1786, 25 Dec.

 fictional Ebenezer Scrooge encounters “Jacob Marley’s ghost” in Dickens’s novel, A Christmas Carol

1812 Charles John Huffam Dickens born. Son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow, grandson of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824); Elizabeth was daughter of Charles Barrow (1759–1826) and Mary Culliford.

 Charles John Huffam Dickens was such a prolific writer of novels and magazine stories, that the question came into popular usage in the English language, as a quote of astonishment, to wit; ‘Where in Dickens did ye find that?’   With the advent of scanning and full text digitization of literary and historical works, it is now comparatively easy to do a full text search of documents for quotes or stories, brought to remembrance. But the quote was appropriate back in the day of paper books. Paper books were popular from the 15^th century after Gutenberg invented movable type and the printing press, until circa 1995, when electronic images replaced the form of communication. Paper was invented perhaps in Egypt and used as papyrus.

1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings.

 6^th Resident of Malacca. Major-General William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839 Perth, Scotland) was an employee of the East India Company, and the first Resident of colonial Singapore. Born at Newhall, Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen. Farquhar died in Perth, Scotland. On his tomb, there is the following inscription in block capitals: “Sacred to the Memory of Major General William Farquhar of the H.E.I.C.Service and Madras Engineer Corps who served in the East Indies upwards of 33 years. During 20 years of his valuable life he was appointed to offices of high responsibility under the civil government of India having in addition to his military duties served as Resident in Malacca and afterwards at Singapore which later settlement he founded. In all the stations which he filled he acquired honour to himself and rendered service to his country. He departed this life at Early Bank, Perth, on the 11^th of May 1839, highly respected and deeply regretted by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance.”

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

28^th       form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 3 Nephi.

1868 Donald Gordon of Inverness, in a letter to Church President Brigham Young dated 7 February 1868, wrote, “Having heard much concerning the Brothers at Utah and feeling very anxious to join them. I take the liberty of addressing this letter to ye on the subject. . . . If I thought I could be of some benefit to the Church by killing Deer and selling the venison I should be most happy to come, and I would also bring some Highland Hunters with me to assist me. . . . If there are but few deer about your Forests, I would willingly act as Missionary to advance the interests of the Church as far as in me lay . . . . Or, if it would please ye better I would for a small remuneration act as a missionary here in the Highlands of Scotland, for being well versed in Gael [Gaelic], I have no doubt I could induce many to go.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

Young. Crest: A demi lion issuant Gules, holding a sword Proper. Motto: ROBORE PRUDENTIA PRAESTAT. (Prudence excels strength). Auldbar Castle. Borders region and the Northeast regions of Angus and Kinkardine.