January 1  Sources include – 017ca Anderson The Scottish nation, or The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland – 3 volumes circa 1862.

Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. together with a  succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bluidy persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings: The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. Howie, John – 1781

o   Buchanan, Rerum Scotarum Historia 1582

Chambers biographical_dictionary_eminent_Scotsmen_vol 1 – 5

·      Chambers Domestic_annals_Scotland_Reformation vol 2 1625-1688

Chapman, History_Feuds_Conflicts_Clans Scotland 1301 1619 1818 chapel fire 5 pages

www.bfdc.co.uk/2009/smilersheets/mythical_creatures_heraldry.html

Counterclockwise from upper left. College of Arms Quincentenary; Arms of Richard III; Arms of the Earl Marshall;  Arms of the City of London;  650^th Anniversary of the Order of the garter 1348-1998; The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry or knighthood, originating in medieval England. King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter in 1348 as ‘a society, fellowship and college of knights’. Order of the Thistle – four presentations.

·      http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/ 1950-2005

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900

·      Douglas history_house_vol 1 – 2

o   Dunvegan, Crawford, and Dublin Armorials – Heraldry Society of Scotland

electricscotland.com

·      Fighting Cochranes. Earl of Dundonald.

Lesley John The History of Scotland, From the Death of King James I, in the Year M. CCCC. XXXVI, to the Year M.D

Miller, Helen Hill Yours for Yesterday the Millers of Ayrshire circa 1960 YYMA

·      Nisbet, Alexander 1742 and 1765. System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: with the True Art of Blazen, according to the Most approved Heralds in Europe, published in 1742, Vol. II, appendix to Part IV P. 42,

Reformation, History of the by Cook 3 volumes. 1811- 1819

·      www.thepeerage.com

Scott, Sir Walter – Tales of a Grandfather 3 volumes 1825

·      scottish armorial 00macdiala – 1904-2921 families

·      Scottish_Notes_and_Queries Vol 4 1903 2nd

·      Tytle, Taylor and Reid,  History of Scotland in the Encyclopedia Britannica 1845

Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia 2012-2015

·      Wishart,  Life of George Scottish martyr, translation Helvetian Confession, genealogical history family of Wishart

January 1 – 1 The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus feast day (actual date of April 14^th, on 8^th day after birth)

     In England, January 1 was celebrated as the New Year festival, but from the 12^th  century to 1752 the year in England began on March 25 (Lady Day) coinciding with the beginning of Spring. The Parliamentary records list the execution of Charles I occurring in 1648 (as the year did not end until March 24 in London), although modern histories erroneously adjust the start of the year to January 1 and record the execution as occurring in 1649 (in Scotland’s calendar – but the execution was in London).

       Most western European countries changed the start of the year to January 1 before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. Scotland (by decree of the King James) changed the start of the Scottish New Year to January 1 in 1600. England, Ireland and the British colonies changed the start of the year to January 1 in 1752. Later in September 1752, the Gregorian calendar was introduced throughout Britain and the British colonies. These two reforms were implemented by the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.

January 1 became the official start of the year as follows:

1522 The Republic of Venice

1544 Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

1556 Spain, Portugal

1559 Prussia, Sweden

1564 France

1576 Southern Netherlands

1579 Lorraine

1583 United Provinces of the Netherlands (northern)

1600 Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.

1752 England Ireland and North American colonies.

1663 MELDRUM, GEORGE (1635?–1709), minister of Aberdeen, suspended by the synod till 1 Jan. 1663 (from 24 October 1662), for not subscribing canonical obedience (Ecclesiastical Records of Aberdeen, Spalding Club, p. 269). rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and professor of divinity in the university of Edinburgh, was ‘the fourth son of a family in Aberdeenshire of the auld house of Meldrum (Wodrow, Analecta, i. 175). At seventeen years of age, and before he had taken the degree of M.A., he was made one of the regents of Marischal College, Aberdeen. On 1 Dec. 1658 he was chosen by the town council to be minister of Aberdeen. Being cited before the council on 10 Dec. 1662, he agreed to comply with the government of the church as ‘presently established by archbishops and bishops,’ and his case being recommended by the council to the Bishop of St. Andrews, he was restored to his charge (Wodrow, Sufferings of the Kirk of Scotland, i. 315–16). He afterwards explained that he only supported episcopacy so far as it was consistent with presbyteries and synods (ib.) According to Wodrow he ‘showed much zeal against popery, and especially against Dempster the jesuit, and one night was almost assassinated going to see a sick person’ (Analecta, i. 176). He was ten times elected rector of Marischal College. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 37.

1700 Russia is busy.

1746 [Scotland Year, 1745 in England] At Glasgow.

During the Prince’s absence in England a considerable army had been collected, of which the headquarters were Perth and Dunblane. Though Lord Lewis Gordon  had difficulty in raising the Gordons, as the Duke wohld

 not come out,1 he collected many men from Aberdeenshire, including a regiment under Moir of Stonywood, and one under Gordon of Avochy and the Farquharsons from Deeside under Monaltrie (S.C.M. 337, 413, 344). Lady MacIntosh raised her clan under MacGillvray of Dunmaglass (UL 55), as her husband had joined the Government. Lady Fortrose (Seaforth), whose husband was also with Loudon, raised a few MacKenzies.1 Lord Cromarty, with his son, Lord McLeod, joined with a MacKenzie regiment. MacDonald of Barrisdale, young Glengarry and the elder  Lochiel brought reinforcements from the west, and Glengyle some MacGregors from Perthshire. The Master of Lovat led out the clan of Fraser. Lord John Drummond, who had with him the French auxiliaries, assumed the command in chief, which had been intrusted to Lord Strathallan.

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America (i.e. Virginia, the Carolinas, New England, and mid Atlantic Colonies, Canada), and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. 1751 ran from March 25^th 1751 (Lady Day) to December 31^st 1751, the next date being January 1^st, 1752.  But this date in 1751 did occur in Scotland and most European countries. Scotland began its New Year January 1^st beginning January 1^st 1600 so this date did occur in 1751,

      An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use, Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (c.23) (also known as Chesterfield’s Act after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield).  The new legal year began on 1 January rather than 25 March (Lady Day); dropping the Julian Calendar and adopted the Gregorian calendar with its leap years.

    Scotland also changed from the Julian to Gregorian calendar in 1751.

 The Parliament held that the Julian calendar, as then in use, and the start of the year on 25 March, were

Wikipedia.

January 1^st is the Earliest day on which Handsel Monday can fall, while January 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year. (Scotland). William Hunter, a collier (residing in the parish of Tillicoultry, in Clackmannanshire), was cured in the year 1738 of an inveterate rheumatism or gout, by drinking freely of new ale, full of harm or yeast. The poor man had been confined to his bed. for a year and a half, having almost entirely lost the use of his limbs. On the evening of Handsel Monday, as it is called, some of his neighbours came to make merry with him. Though he could not rise, yet he always took his share of the ale, as it passed round the company, and in the end he became much intoxicated. The consequence was that he had the use of his limbs next morning, and was able to walk about. He lived more than twenty years after this, and never had the smallest return of his auld complaint. —Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland, 1792, xv., note on p. 201.

The eighth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)

1293 Robert VI the Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1253–1304) warrener at Great Baddow, a Richard, is caught poaching venison at Northle.

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Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopeadia Britannica, p  89.

CHRONOLOGY OF The Period.

1440. Art of Printing Invented by John Guttenberg.

1450. Mahommed II., Emperor of the Turks.

1452  James 2^nd Stewart King Scots invites Earl Douglas to Stirling TG 21-291  to abort allegiance to Earls of Ross and Crawford Earl Beardie – Tiger-Earl  of Angus, Perth, and Kincardine.

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More Tytler’a History of Scotland chronology

1453. The Turks take Constantinople, and annihilate the eastern empire of the Romans.

1455. Civil war In England between the royal houses of York and Lancaster, or war of the Roses

1461. Edward IV. (of the House of York), proclaimed King of England by his party Louis XI., King of France.

1470. Edward IV. driven from England; Henry VI restored to the throne.

1471. Return of Edward IV. Celebration of battles of Barnet April 14 and Tewkesbury May 4; destruction of the Lancastrian party.

1483. Charles VIII, King of France. Young Edward V. King of England, murdered; Richard III. King of England.

1485. Richard 3^rd (last King of the Plantagenet dynasty), slain In the battle. Preparation for battle of Bosworth August 22; Henry VII. King of England. (Father in law of James 4^th King of Scots)

1478. The Orkney and Shetland Islands united to the kingdom of Scotland.

Romancing the Stones One of the most striking arrays of Neolithic monuments in Britain, the Ring of Brodgar is on the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland. Dating from about 2500 B.C., the ring’s stones form a perfect circle 340 feet in diameter. (The tallest of the surviving stones is 14 feet high.) A ditch surrounding the ring, dug out of bedrock, is 33 feet wide and 11 feet deep. Archaeologist Colin Renfrew, who partially excavated the site in 1973, estimates the ditch would have required 80,000 man-hours to dig.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/stones.html#

1515  Louis XII of France died 3 months after marriage to young Mary Tudor (1496–1533), the sister of Henry VIII, the King of England in Abbeville, France, on 9 October 1514, Louis died on 1 January 1515, and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica. Due to the tradition of Salic Law, which did not allow women to inherit the throne of France, Louis was succeeded by his first cousin’s son, Francis I (who was also Louis’ son-in-law).

Late Gothic statue of Saint Denis, limestone, formerly polychromed (Musée de Cluny). The “Saint Denis”, often combined as “Montjoie! Saint Denis!” became the war-cry of the French armies.

1515 – King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.

1537 – Madeleine of Valois Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France 1 January 1537 no children.

1599 never occurred in Scotland. There was no January 1^st  1599 to March 24^th  of the year 1599 in Scotland. New Year’s Day began from 1600.

1600 begins as proclaimed by James Vi King of Scots. 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”.

1649 (in Edinbugh) Trial of Charles 1. Not going to end well.  (Year was alsj 1648 in London where trial was held.)

Charles 1 Coat of arms as Prince of Wales 

1651 (in Edinburgh) Charles II, King of Scots coronation TG 46-101.

 Royal Standard

1660 After Richard Cromwell’s death, General Monck gave his support to the Stuarts, and on 1 January 1660 Monck’s Regiment of Foot crossed the River Tweed into England at the village of Coldstream, from where he made a five-week march to London.   Hence Majesty’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards,

1692 –  Proclamation enforced of August 1691 to Highland Chiefs to submit to Government of King William 2^nd King of England. TG 58-2, 6.

1693 Helen Meldrum, (born 1 Jan 1693, Ayr, daughter of David Meldrum (1659-1741) minister of Tibermore Perth and wife Issobel Creichton, daughter of Ayr’s deputy sheriff,

1748 Archibald Cochrane (son) born. 9^th Earl of Dundonald.

1801 On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great Britain (formed by the union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England on May 1, 1707 but without Ireland) and the Kingdom of Ireland united to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Most of Ireland left the union as the Irish Free State in 1922, leading to the remaining state being renamed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.

1840 On the Road from Glasgow to Bishopton. The restored gospel of Jesus Christ first reached Glasgow in December 1839, when Elders Samuel Mulliner and Alexander Wright arrived. Appropriately, both had been born in Scotland. Both independently emigrated to Canada, joined the Church, and then made their ways to Missouri and Ohio to join the Saints. They eventually met and were called to serve missions in their native land.  Ensign Oct 1978

1854 – Sir James George Frazer, born Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)

1868 John Nicholson,  Scot. Author of Come follow me. In Utah he wrote occasionally over the nom de plume of “Yno.”  The editor of the “Telegraph,” T. B. H. Stenhouse, discovering who the writer was, offered him a position, beginning the first day of the year, 1868.  https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/872907

1876 Spirit of ’76 – American Centennial and Bicentennial

 1976 January 1. Archibald M. Willard’s Yankee Doodle, Painted for the 1876 American Revolution centennial, the painting was purchased by the father of the boy who was used as the model for the drummer boy and presented to the town of Marblehead, MAssachusetts. Willard, a native of the Cleveland area, was a soldier and flag bearer in the Civil War. usstampgallery.com

1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.

1877 St. George Temple dedicated. Within eight months, Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of  the Saint George Temple.

 Vintage Post Card as the temple looked circa 1920s.

Sir Walter Scott AUTHOR, David Livingstone, John Witherspoon, Philip Livingston, George Ross, Arthur Middleton (Signers of the Declaration of Independence). Jean Armou,  Frances Herbert, Sarah Van Brugh Livingston,  Anna Isabella Milbanke, Mary Fairfax Somerville, Samuel Johnso, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, Martha Caldwell,

Charlotte Margaret Carpenter, Frances Henderson, Frances Herbert (c. 1758—1831) of England [Lady Nelson] Wife of Lord Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)

1880 – Ferdinand de Lesseps begins  (and fails after 20 years) French construction of the Panama Canal. 181 years earlier Scots attempted the Darien project. Yellow fever will defeat both. (The Isthmus of Darien (later Panama) was unsettled because it was infected with Yellow Fever, which killed off the settlers. Prevention and cure had to wait two centuries until Pasteur’s discovery of the microbial theory of disease, in the 1850’s, and Col. Walter Reed’s discovery of its transfer to humans by mosquitoes, in 1900. Defeat Mosquitoes, and defeat the ‘Yellow Jack.’)

1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sanford Fleming’s (Scots born) Canadian  proposal for Standard Time (and also, time zones).

Fleming Motto: LET THE DEED SHAW. Crest: A goat’s head erased Argent, armed Or

1885 also some time this year. Jake McDuck (1832-1952) lived in the same house as his brother Fergus McDuck and helped Fergus and his wife Downy O’Drake to raise their children. Jake settled in McDuck castle along with his brother in 1885. (Fictional clan McDuck.)

1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, born, American FBI director (d. 1972) Hoover was coroneted a Thirty-Third Degree Inspector General Honorary in the Southern Scottish Rite Jurisdiction. Hoover was also awarded the Scottish Rite’s highest recognition, the Grand Cross of Honour, in 1965.  ‘’ J. Edgar Hoover. I knew J. Edgar Hoover personally over many years. He was a God-fearing man and one of the most honorable and able men I have ever known in government service.’’ God’s Hand in Our Nation’s History  – Ezra Taft Benson was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of 
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside
 address was given at Brigham Young University on 28 March 1976, and had previously served as Secretary of Agriculture in President Eisenhower’s administration (1953-1961).

1900 Archibald Thompson MacIntyre  died. (October 27, 1822 – January 1, 1900) was a Georgia politician and lawyer,  Colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, post war Congressman 1871-1873

. MacIntyre Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger in pale Proper. Motto: PER ARDUA [from Latin: “Through difficulties”].Badge: common heath or White HeatherChief: Donald R. MacIntyre of Glenoe Seat: Glenoe, Argyll and Bute

1909

Auld Lang Syne Happy New Year 09.

1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, born, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)

1919 HMS Iolaire an Admiralty yacht bringing returning World War I soldiers back to Scotland sinking on New Year’s Day, Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, (1 January 1919)

  The Serenity of the Outer Hebrides – January 2005 Smithsonian.com -Dun Carloway, built around 1 B.C., features one of the best-preserved brochs, or defensive stone towers, in Scotland.

1932 – C P Scott,  died, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)

1939  AA cruiser “Coventry” was damaged in an air raid on the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland.  www.naval-history.net

1943 Der Fuehrer’s Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land) is an American film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released  by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck (fictional clan McDuck) in a nightmare setting working at a factory in Nazi Germany, was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

 Music from Wagner’s comic opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg precedes the title song.  A German oom-pah band composed of Axis leaders Tojo on sousaphone, Göring on piccolo, Goebbels on trombone, Mussolini on bass drum and an unnamed man on snare drum marches through a small German town, where everything, even the clouds and trees, are shaped as swastikas, singing the virtues of the Nazi doctrine.

 Donald salutes the “Fuehrer” (fictional clan McDuck)

 Donald throws tomato. (fictional clan McDuck)

1948 (Fictional clan McDuck) Gladstone Gander is the son of Daphne and Goosetave Gander. Gladstone was created by Carl Barks and first appeared in the story “Wintertime Wager” in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #88 (January, 1948). 

 Gladstone Gander as seen in the comics. “Gladstone is unwilling to make the slightest effort to gain something that his luck cannot give him, and, when things go wrong, he resigns immediately, certain that around the next corner a wallet, dropped by a passer-by, will be waiting for him”.

1973 On 1 January 1973 the United Kingdom and Gibraltar joined what was then known as the European Economic Community (the Common Market), under terms negotiated by the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath.^[3] In accordance with British constitutional convention, specifically that of parliamentary sovereignty, accession was not subject to approval by referendum. Both Conservative and the Labour Parties were divided over the issue, and the enabling legislation was passed due to sufficient Labour abstentions to counteract the number of rebel Tories. Brexit.  Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, or  Brexit (a portmanteau of “British” and “exit” or “Britain” and “exit’’).

1975 Movie released. Midway between Callander and Stirling lies Doune Castle, one of the best-preserved 14^th -century castles in Britain and a monument in another film, the cult comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” THE WINNER IS . . . SCOTLAND AS BEST SUPPORTING COUNTRY.

1976 On New Year’s Day 1976, President Derek A. Cuthbert of the Scotland Edinburgh Mission climbed “Pratt’s Hill” again. Looking over the city, he offered a prayer to rededicate himself, his missionaries, and the land of Scotland to the work, asking the Lord for three hundred new members to strengthen the Church there. And again the Lord answered. Before President Cuthbert, now a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, completed his mission, almost exactly that many were baptized in and around Edinburgh.

1980 Death Watch filmed in Glasgow, including: Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow Cathedral, the former Queen’s Dock on the River Clyde and the Glasgow City Chambers.

 Poster. French sci fi. (French: La Mort en direct)

1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847 and invented the first practical telephone.  ‘Ma Bell’ lives again as AT&T.

2012. Humor. One afternoon a Scot was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. 
Disturbed, Ruthven ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. 
Ruthven asked one man, “Whae are ye eating grass?” “We dinna have any money far food,” the poor man replied. “We hae tae eat grass.” 
”Well, then, ye can come wie me, to me hoose and Ah’ll feed ye.”

         Malcolm said, 
”But sir, AH have a wife ane two children with me. They are over there, under that tree.” 
”Bring them along,” Ruthven replied. 
Turning to the other poor man Ruthven stated, “Ye come wie us, also.” 
The second man, in a pitiful voice, then said, “But sir, Ah also have uh wife  ane six children wae me!” 
”Bring them all, as well,” Ruthven answered.  
Once under way, Malcolm turned to Ruthven and said,  “Sir, ye are too kind. Thank ye for taking all of us wie ye.”
 Ruthven replied, “Glad to dae it. 
”Ye’ll really love me place. 
The grass ies almost a foot high.”   He bragged.  http://www.scotlandvacations.com/scottishhumour.htm

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