January 23 – 1480 Battle of Tarbat where the Clan Ross cornered a raiding party of Clan Mackay.

1480 sometime this year.   Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet Clan Donald’s invasion of the area around Dornoch in northern Scotland in 1480. Two attacks were repulsed by the local clans of Clan Sutherland and Clan Murray.

Mid East Sutherland and Dornoch. long bite of the Dornoch Firth and the Kyle of Sutherland.

1483 · sometime this year. Battle of Bluidy Bay · was a naval battle fought near Tobermory, Scotland on the coast of Mull two miles north of Tobermory,

Passage of Coll, Loch Sunart, Loch Erisa, Loch Tuadh, Ulva, Loch na Beal, Sound of Mull, Loch Sunart, Tobermory.

The battle was between John of Islay, Earl of Ross, the Lord of the Isles and chief of Clan Donald with Clan MacLean, Clan MacLeod, and Clan MacNeil, and his son, Angus Og Macdonald and Clan Donald, Clan MacDonald of Clanranald, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch.

 MacNeil. Crest: On a chapeau Gules furred Ermine, a rock Proper. Motto: BUAIDH NO BAS.
[from Scottish Gaelic: “To conquer or die”].
Badge: dryas or trefoil Chief: Ian R. MacNeil of Barra, The clan badge may actually be attributed to the McNeills of Gigha, a branch of Clan MacNeil. Trefoil has also been atrributed to the Lamonts, another clan in Argyl. The Lamonts and MacNeils/McNeills both claim descent from the same O’Neill who settled in Scotland in the Middle Ages.

1940. James A. McNeill Whistler, fa’hys American Artists. While his father was building the Moscow-Saint Petersburg railroad, James A. McNeill Whistler studied art at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. He spent three years at the U.S. Military Academy and several months making maps for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey before going to Paris in 1855 to study painting. Whistler produced works now hanging in the major museums of the world, although he perhaps is best known for his Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. This work is known by a simpler title: Whistler’s Mother. usstampgallery.com

1560 In January 1560 the English fleet, under Sir William Winter, arrived in the Firth of Forth, having sailed up from Berwick. The ships were sent by William Cecil under the authority of Queen Elizabeth. Landing at Figgate (Portobello), the English unloaded 27 artillery pieces, to assist the Lords of the Congregation in the siege of Perth to oust the French support of the Dowager Regent Queen Mary.

1570 – James Stewart, 1^st Earl of Moray, died. James Stewart, One of 24 Lords of the Congregation, Prior of St Andrews, 1^st Earl of Moray, later to become Regent Moray. James Stewart, 1^st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570), a member of the House of Stewart as the natural son of King James V, was Regent of Scotland for his nephew, the infant King James VI of Scotland, from 1567 until his assassination in 1570, Lord James (until 1562) was Half brother of Mary Stewart, abdicated Queen of Scots. Moray was the natural son of King James V, Moray was Regent of Scotland, for his nephew King James VI of Scotland. Moray was assassinated in Linlithgow on 23 January 1570 by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, a supporter of Mary. Hamilton, using a gun, shot and fatally wounded Moray from a window of his uncle John Hamilton’s house as Moray was passing in a cavalcade in the main street belowMoray was assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. Moray’s mother was the James V’s mistress, Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine, and wife of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven.

The Earl of Moray, a detail from a wedding portrait by Hans Eworth. Until 1562 he was known as Lord James. At Perth in June 1559 James plucked down the images in various churches. An English commentator praised James for his virtue, manhood, valiantness and stoutness as a leader of the Scottish Reformation and a Lord of the Congregation. Moray became the chief advisor to Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1561 after her return from France. She was the only surviving child of his father’s (James V) marriage to Mary of Guise. Although James disturbed her priests celebrating mass at Holyroodhouse in September 1561, she made him Earl of Moray the following year.

1573 sometime this year.   King James VI, confirmed the grant of lands to Sir Alexander Jardine of Jardinefield in Berwickshire; Applegirth and Sibbaldbie in Dumfrieshire; Hartside and Wandel in Lanarkshire; and Kirkandrews in Kirkcudbright. Jardine had to muster 242 men to fight for the King if required. The Clan Jardine retainers, who had no surnames, who became known as “Jardine Men”, adopted Jardine as their surname

1584 sometime this year. Chief William Cochrane, along with seceral others was charged with being involved in the murder of Patrick Maxwell but Cochrane was never brought to trial

1588 sometime this year. The last signing of an existing Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland Priory paper by a monk was in 1588 by George Acheson.

1592 sometime this year.   chief William Cochrane built a high free stone tower, known as Cochrane Tower or Cochrane Castle.

1599 never happened in Scotland.

1716 Coronation of James VIII, Stewart, the auld Pretender, TG 72-412

1785 – Matthew Stewart, died. Scottish mathematician (b. 1717).

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. The Annexe to the Act includes the definition: “Easter-day (on which the rest depend) is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon, which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March. And if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-day is the Sunday after.”

1806 Pitt dies, and a new British government is formed with Lord Grenville and Fox. Tytler’s Britannica.

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

21^st     form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Alma.

Smith or Acorn press.

1855 a future winner of the 1905 The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium born. John Moses Browning (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He is arguably the most important figure in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms and is credited with 128 gun patents. Browning was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Colt Browning M1895/14 Machine Gun in 7mm Mauser caliber, possibly used in the Mexican Revolution.

The druggist John Scott of Edinburgh organized a $4,000 fund which, after his death in 1815 was administered by a merchant until the first award, a copper medal and “an amount not to exceed twenty dollars”, was given in 1822. The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, created in 1816, is a medal presented to men and women whose inventions improved the “comfort, welfare, and happiness of human kind” in a significant way.  The Franklin Institute and the City Council of Philadelphia

1942 The New Spirit is an American film produced by Walt Disney Productions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and released by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry.

Donald Duck (fictional clan McDuck) fervently asserts his loyalty and begs to know how best to show it. His enthusiasm fades when the radio announcer advises he pay his income tax promptly. Under the Revenue Act of 1942, approximately 15 million American citizens would become eligible to pay income tax for the first time. In anticipation of the law’s passing, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. requested that Disney produce a film to cast the tax increase in a positive light and to explain why the government needed the money.

1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery’s 8^th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.

 1970 Joseph Fielding Smith, became 10^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. born in Salt Lake City. (July 19, 1876-July 2, 1972) Descent from Mack of Inverness, Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots.

Joseph Fielding Smith. Smith was a missionary, Church historian, president of the Genealogical Society and of the Salt Lake Temple, an Apostle, and Church President. In addition, Smith supervised the evacuation of LDS missionaries from Europe prior to World War II, dedicated four countries in the Far East for missionary work, and inaugurated the first area conference of the Church in 1971.

1980s Quack of Approval.

Scrooge (fictional clan McDuck)

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew, McAuliffe (1948) NASA’s Teacher in Space and McNair, Ph.D. (1950) exercise for historic launch.   Weather reports major cold front moving south. The Saturn’s rocket fuel will not be affected, it’s liquified under great pressure and so maintained. The nation is unconcerned. The Orange grove owners are very concerned.

Teacher McAuliffe’s Concord High School in New Hampshire. Wikipedia.