January 21   304 Agnes Child Martyr at Rome,  One of many Feast days to date ancient documents, wills, decrees of Scotland.

1290 Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries, founded by Devorguilla, mother of John Balliol.

1490 sometime this year.   Battle of Knockmary, was between the Clan Murray against the Clan Drummond and Clan Campbell.

Murray Motto: FURTH FORTUNE AND FILL THE FETTERS.Badge:butcher’s broom or juniper.  Chief: John Murray, 11^th Duke of Atholl Crest: On a Wreath Or and Sable a demi-savage Proper wreathed about the temples and waist with laurel, his arms extended and holding in the right hand a dagger, in the left a key all Proper.

1491 sometime this year.    Raid on Ross with Clan Mackenzie against the Clan MacDonald of Lochalsh, Clan MacDonald of Clanranald the Clan Cameron and the Chattan Confederation of Clan Mackintosh.

Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), Brave film 2012.

1494 sometime this year.  the Sceptre of Scotland was a gift from Pope Alexander VI to King James IV. Christian symbols: stylised dolphins, symbols of the Church, appear on the head of the rod, as do images of the Virgin Mary holding a baby Christ, of Saint James the Great, and of Saint Andrew holding a saltire. James 4^th will be ancestor of all English monarchs after 1603.

1561 James Douglas, Laird of Drumlanrig; subscribed the Book of Discipline on 27 January 1561,  One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. Sir James Douglas of 7^th of Drumlanrig¹ lived at Drumlanrig, Scotland. Child of Sir James Douglas 6^th Laird of Drumlanrig  and Elizabeth Gordon of Lochinvar. Christian Douglas. One of the confederated barons who marched against Queen Mary, in 1567, when she surrendered at Carberry Hill. He had 18 children by 3 wives/mistresses and was succeeded by his grandson, James, himself the son of Sir William Douglas of Hawick.

Citations G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume V, page 604. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

• Douglas 10362Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate –  Douglas 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

1599 never happened in Scotland.  It did in England,  though. For the next 152 years Scotland and England ran different calendars for 3 months of the year.

1721 – James Murray, born, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794). 21 January 1721, Ballencrieff, East Lothian, Scotland – 18 June 1794,

James was a younger son of Alexander Murray, 4^th  Lord Elibank, and his wife Elizabeth (Betty) Stirling. Educated in Haddington and Selkirk, he began his military career in 1736 in the 3^rd  Scots Regiment in Dutch service. In 1740 he served as a second lieutenant in Wynyard’s Marines, under his brother Patrick Murray, 5^th  Lord Elibank,

Portrait of James Murray as a young man by Allan Ramsay (1742) (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh)

Fenton       Seat: Fenton, Dirleton, East Lothian.

1750 – [Robert Miller III]’This sermon was delivered the 21^st  of January 1750 in St, John’s Church, Charles Town. manuscript sermons, yellowed but still entirely legible, in the possession of Col. Francis Pickens Miller in 1970, was delivered before leaving Scotland. 83 YYMA (clans Stewart, Hunter, Lockhart, Meldrum, and Cochrane)

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. As well as adopting the Gregorian rule for leap years, Pope Gregory’s rules for the date of Easter were also adopted. However, with religious strife still on their minds, the British could not bring themselves to adopt the Catholic system explicitly: the Annexe to the Act established a computation for the date of Easter that achieved the same result as Gregory’s rules, without actually referring to him.

1793 Louis 16^th of France is executed.  Britain wars with France. Tytler’s Britannica.

Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopaedia Britannica

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD.

A.D.

1800. Bill for the Union of England and Ireland receives the royal assent, July 2^nd .

l804. Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of the French.

1808  Frederick VI., King of Denmark.

1809. Charles XIII., King of Sweden, in room of Gustavus IV. Deposed.,
1810. Bernadotte chosen Crown Prince of Sweden.
1811. Louis XVIII. makes his public entry into Paris.

1824 – Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, born, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863). Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the great-grandson of John Jackson (1715 or 1719 – 1801) and Elizabeth Cummins (also known as Elizabeth Comings and Elizabeth Needles) (1723 – 1828).

1937 Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson were considered the top two generals of the Confederacy.  At Chancellorsville, General Lee won the battle and lost his best General, Stonewall Jackson. Jackson had a distinguished record leading Confederate armies. Jactson contributed greatly to a string of Southern victories, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. On returning from night reconnaissance, Jackson was shot by some of his own men. Obviously undisciplined, those who fired, did so before confirming their target was an enemy. Jackson developed pneumonia from the wounds and died. usstampgallery.com

1836 Kirtland Ohio temple. Joseph Smith the Prophet, sees his brother Alvin in the celestial kingdom;  The doctrine of salvation for the dead is revealed; All children are saved in the celestial kingdom. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 137.

1874 Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa .  Scotland opera singer. (7 May 1836 – 21 January 1874) was a British operatic soprano who established the Carl Rosa Opera Company together with second husband Carl Rosa. Her achievements were recognised by the Philharmonic Society of London (now the Royal Philharmonic Society) with the rare award of their Gold Medal in 1872. Euphrosyne Parepa was born in Edinburgh, to the soprano Elizabeth Sequinn (sister of basso Arthur Edward Seguin).

 Parepa-Rosa died in childbirth in London at the age of 37 while preparing a production of an English version of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. Wikipedia. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits, including Euphrsyne, appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of  the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah  22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men – Scots

1890 Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran.  (clan cochrane). Crossed the Pacific in the White Star Line ship Oceanic, and arrived in San Francisco. Bly left by steam ship for a trip around the world to beat Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero of Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days.”  Pulitzer charters a private train to bring her east.

1919 – Eric “Winkle” Brown, Scottish test pilot, born.

1940 Moray Firth. Searching for a reported U-boat off the Moray Firth, destroyer “EXMOUTH” was torpedoed by “U-22” and lost with all hands.

Merchant Shipping War – U-boats were particularly active in the Moray Firth area off the Scottish coast and in the rest of the North Sea through until March 1940. In January alone they sank 14 ships – all neutrals.

Monthly Loss Summary
64 British, Allied and neutral ships of 179,000 tons in UK waters.  www.naval-history.net

1945 After torpedoing a merchant ship from a Thames/ Bristol Channel convoy, “U-1199” was sunk close to Lands End by escorting destroyer “lcarus” and corvette “Mignonette”. www.naval-history

1950 Acclaimed author George Orwell died. Orwell’s last novel, 1984, published 1949 was written in between periods spent in hospital, and Animal Farm in 1945. Born Eric Arthur Blair in June 1903 into a family of relatively prosperous civil servants working in India on behalf of the British Empire. In reaction to the sudden glare of fame, Orwell moved to the island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland. (clan Blair).

Orwell was also a BBC journalist.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew, including Sharon Christa McAuliffe (1948) for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project  (son Scot); and Ronald  Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (1950) prep for historic launch.   Weather reports cold front moving south.  Wait and see. Average temperature in central Florida’s space coast is usually in the upper 40s even in January.

2005 Dear Frankie filmed in Scotland, Buchanan Street Stamps, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Greenock, Inverclyde,.  Newly relocated in the Scottish town of Greenock, Lizzie accepts a job at the local fish and chips. Through a Glasgow post office box, Frankie maintains a regular correspondence with someone he believes to be his father. Paintings created by the Glasgow Boys and Glasgow Girls, Glasgow School collectives whose artwork featured prosaic scenes of the Scottish countryside.

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