January 2 AD 2 THE EPIPHANY – may be celebrated on the

Sunday between 2nd  and 8th of January as the visitation of the Biblical Wise Men to the Young child Jesus, as the Twelve Days of Christmas.  Thousands of miles away from Scotland and thousands of years before the Scotland National Church. The events are revered and celebrated throughout Scotland’s recorded history.  I have a 44 page white paper on Who were the Wise Men?  If you want to read it, reply to ochiltree(at sign)outlook.com with ‘Wise Men’ in the subject line.

379 and 389 Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishops, Teachers of the Faith,

St. Basil depicted on the left, The Mass of St. Basil by Pierre Subleyras. Christian holidays have been celebrated for centuries by Scots.

Handsel Monday can fall on the 2nd, while January 7th  is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year. (Scotland). 

683 pestilence reported in Scotland. ‘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.

1507 sometime in, The Sword of State of Scotland was a papal gift of Pope Julius II presented to James IV in 1507.

 (circa 1922-1939)

1599 never occurred in Scotland. (the day after December 31 1599 was January 1 1599 in London, but January 1, 1600 in Edinburgh, Venice and a scattering of other European nations). England and British colonies begin January 1 as start of year in 1752.

1648 (London year), (1649 Edinburgh year) Trial of Charles (later styled the 1st ) in London.

 Charles being mocked by Cromwell’s soldiers was used by French artist Hippolyte Delaroche in his 1836 painting, Charles I Insulted by Cromwell’s Soldiers.

1746 [in Edinburgh, 1745 in Londontown] On the 2nd  of January 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie was outside the Burgh of Stirling and wanted to enter in order to feed and rest his men and horses. Charlie wrote to the Provost and Councillors of the Burgh demanding to be given entry to the town with the threat of ‘immediate execution’, of anyone found bearing arms within the walls.  Early gun control by the Government, first registration of gun owners, then confiscation by threat of death, then occupation.

    This letter is held at Stirling Council Archives along with the Stirling Burgh Council minutes covering the incident.  www.stirling2014.co.uk

‘Charles Prince of Wales and Regent of Scotland England France and ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging.

    To the Provost Magistrates and Council of the Town of Stirling.

Intending to take posession of our Town of Stirling We hereby require and command you to give our Forces peaceable entry into and possesion of the said Town and to receive us as the Representative of our Royal Father James the eight by the Grace of God King of Scotland England France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, and as we have a list of all the persons now in Arms in the Said Town, you are expressly required to deliver up to us all their arms, and likewise all Canon Arms and Military stores presently in the said Town. Assuring you hereby that if you refuse or delay to receive us, or to deliver up the Arms and Military Stores, as aforesaid, and Hereby oblige us to use that force which Providence has put in our hands, after our discharging of our Canon against the said Town, no Articles of Capitulation or Protection shall be given to any of the Inhabitants for their Personal goods and affects. And as the Town is now blocaded on all sides, if any person …’

·      Purpose was not to prevent crime, but eliminate political opposition.

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. 1751 ran from March 25th 1751 (Lady Day) to December 31st 1751, the next date being January 1st, 1752.  But this date,  January 2nd 1751,  did occur in Scotland and most European countries.

1788 Georgia ratifies the constitution, and becomes a state. Scottish names include- Aberdeen,  Albany, Argyle (old spelling of Argyll), Arlington, Buchanan,  Campbell County, Campbellton, Chapel Hill, Chester,  Clarkston, Clayton ,Clyde, Crawford, Crawford County, Culloden, Dalton, Darien – A Scottish Colony Established 1736,  Douglas, Dunbar, Duncan Ridge, East Albany, Ellerslie, Flemington, Fort Gordon, Fort McAllister, Fort McIntosh, Fort McPherson, Fort Stewart, Fulton County, Georgetown (2 Counties), Gibson, Glenloch, Glenwood, Gordon, Greenwood, Hamilton, Harris County, Houston County, Hunter Hills, Johnson County, Kingston, Kirkwood, Lake Sinclair, Lee County, Lenox (Lennox), Leslie, Livingston, Lyons, Mansfield, Martin, McDuffie County, McIntosh County, McIntyre, McRae, McWhorter, Meigs, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Montrose, Morningside, Mount Vernon, Murray County, New Hope, Newton, New Town, Norman Park, Oakwood, Oliver, Patterson, Riverside, Rose Hill Heights, Royston, Sandy Springs, Scotland, Scotts Crossing, South Newport, Springfield, St. Marys, Stewart County, Summerville, Temple, Turner County, Waverly, Whitfield County, Williamson

State of Georgia 1799 Constitution Justice Wisdom Moderation

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 1st  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 hours per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

18th    form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in the book of Alma.

 Grandin Press restored. Mormonnewsroom.org

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 38, Thus saith the Lord your God, even Jesus Christ, the GreatI Am, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the same which looked upon the wide expanse of eternity, and all the seraphic hosts of heaven, before the world was made; The same which knoweth all things, for all things are present before mine eyes. I am the same which spake, and the world was made, and all things came by me.

1840 The restored gospel of Jesus Christ  is on the highways between Glasgow and Bishopton, 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.

1845 David Livingstone married Dr. Robert Moffat’s eldest daughter Mary on 2 January 1845. She was also Scottish but had lived in Africa since she was four. Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854–56

 Livingstone preaching from  a wagon. Wikipedia.

1896 Bank Holiday in Scotland. (Perhaps for the employees to rest after Hogmanay parties, if they need an excuse. Who knows?)

 January 2nd  is not a bank or public holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. If either or both of January 1 and 2 fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the bank holidays are moved to the next week days. For instance, if January 1 falls on a Saturday and January 2 on a Sunday, the bank holidays are moved to January 3 and 4. People traditionally ate black bun on Twelfth Night (January 6) but it is now eaten on the last day of Hogmanay. Black bun consists of a pastry case filled with nuts, spices and dried fruit soaked in brandy. It is often made a few weeks ahead to allow the flavors to mature (gasp!  Left unrefrigerated no doubt!).

 I don’t know if Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe celebrates bank holidays, but this note (Circa August 2008 – April 2009) is interesting.  ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand One Hundred Trillion dollars for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.’ Zimbabwe was formerly called Rhodesia (from 1898-1980), founded by Cecil Rhodes. In 1890 The British Colonial Office also decided to administer British Central Africa (Nyasaland, today’s Malawi) owing to the activism of Scots missionaries trying to end the slave trade. Rhodes paid much of the cost so that the British Central Africa Commissioner. Wikipedia. Such hyperinflation results in a barter economy wherein goods and services are exchanged directly, without an intermediate value preservation.  i.e. if you don’t have what I want, we can’t do business.

1901 Emma Ray Riggs and David O. McKay became the first couple in the 20th  century to be married in the Salt Lake Temple.  David McKay, from Thurso, Scotland. His son, DAVID O. McKay was the 9th President, from 1951, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  

 Emma Ray Riggs McKay on left.

1945 Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey, Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force, architect of the Dunkirk evacuation, and with major responsibility for the North African and Sicily landings, as well as command of Operation ‘Neptune’, was killed in an air crash in France on the 2nd . Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Burrough succeeded him.  www.naval-history

1948 The Swordsman release date. Two Highland clans settle a feud. The actors perform in their full formal dress kilts, tartans, tams, and boots.  Lots of riding and sword fights, treachery and romance. Includes William Edgar Buchanan (clan Buchanan) as Angus MacArden.

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