January 27 –1199 Sometime in. Earthquake. Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:29 Behold I speak for mine elect’s sake; there shall be earthquakes, in divers places. Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of earthquakes.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1398 Parliament at Perth declared the prince (Duke of Rothesay) regent for three years. His uncle (Earl of Fife as the Duke of Albany) resigned as regent. 1398 was the first title of a Duke in Scotland. Tytler from Britannica.

 Perth and the Scottish Borders. Ochil Hills, Methven, River Tay, Carse of Gowrie, Dundee, Firth of Tay, Loch of May , Firth of Forth, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Fife, Strath Earn, Sidlaw Hills.

1558 – a Beggars ‘ Summonds had declared that the properties of the friars belonged to the real poor, “the blind, crooked, lame, wedowes, orphans, and all other poore visited by the hand of God or may not worke’—-and demanded ‘that yee remove furth of our said hospitalls, betwixt this and the feast of Whitsonday nixt, so that we the onlie lawfull proprietors thereof may enter therto.’

James Douglas, Laird of Drumlanrig; 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.   He subscribed the Book of Discipline on 27 January 1561, and was 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.

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1599 never happened in Scotland. The dates from January 1^st to March 24^th 1599 were skipped in Scotland, but not in England.

1609 -Statutes of Iona

1642 Long Parliament orders Sir John Hotham, 1^st Baronet, who seizes the arsenal at Kingston upon Hull.

1649 [Edinburgh year] 1648 [London year]The death warrant of Charles, Clan Stewart, King of England (after 1660, styled the Charles the First) is signed.

1692 Earl (TG 58-12)of Argyle’s regiment, commanded by Captain (TG 58-12)Campbell of Glenlyon, at Glencoe, and MacDonalds.

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 Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald, clan MacDonald), ‘Brave’ film 2012 (c) Disney. Released. Set in mythical Scotland. MacDonald was born in Glasgow, 23 Feb 1976 .

1715 – 1716 Argyle reaches Tullibardine, Perth, Scotland against Chevalier de St George TG 72-414

Carruthers          Crest: A seraphim volant Proper Motto: PROMPTUS ET FIDELIS
[“Ready and faithful”]

Carruthers of Mouswald 16^th

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1735 Witchcraft Act of 1735 presented to the House of Commons on 27 January 1735 by John Conduitt, John Crosse and Alderman George Heathcote, the Act received Royal Assent on 24 March 1735 and came into effect on 24 June 1736. The only figure to offer significant opposition to the Act was Lord James Erskine (1679–1754), a Scottish member of the House of Lords. Erskine not only fervently believed in the existence of witchcraft, but, it has been argued, also held beliefs that were deeply rooted in “Scottish political and religious considerations” and which caused him to reject the Act. His objection to the Act “marked him out as an eccentric verging on the insane” among Members of Parliament, and in turn his political opponents would use it against him; one of his staunchest critics, Robert Walpole, who was then the de facto Prime Minister of the country, allegedly stating that he no longer considered Erskine to be a serious political threat as a result of his embarrassing opposition to the Act. The Witchcraft Act of 1735 remained in force well into the 20^th century, until its eventual repeal with the enactment of the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951. Wikipedia. The Act criminalized a person to claim that any human being had magical powers or was guilty of practising witchcraft, treating as an offence not the supposed practice of witchcraft but the superstitious belief in its witchcaft. The last person executed for witchcraft was a Scottish witch named Janet Horne in 1727. Janet Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet. The neighbours accused Horne of having used her daughter as a pony to ride to the Devil, where she had her shod by him. The trial was conducted very quickly; Captain David Ross, sheriff had judged both guilty and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. The daughter managed to escape, but Janet was stripped, smeared with tar, paraded through the town on a barrel and burned alive. Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland. Janet (or Jenny) Horne was also a generic name for witches in the north of Scotland. Wikipedia. http://www.historylinks.org.uk/18th-century

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4345.Walter_Scott

‘Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed?’ Sir Walter Scott.

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 a result of the Act, Scotland adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752. When the son of the Earl of Macclesfield (who had been influential in passing the Act) stood for Parliament in Oxfordshire as a Whig in 1754, dissatisfaction with the calendar reform was one of a number of issues raised by his Tory opponents.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary of War. The parents of Henry Knox (William Knox and Mary (née Campbell))were Scots.

 Henry Knox, Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1784

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1851 John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist and painter. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), was published in parts between 1827 and 1838 by a Scottish publisher.

1967 Columbia Jays, John James Audubon or Collie’s magpie jays. His Birds of America were printed between 1827 and 1838 by a Scottish
publisher. The text, Ornithological Biography, came out in five volumes between
1831 and 1839.

Scottish naturalist William MacGillivray collaborated

1922 Nellie Bly died (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. The Pittsburgh Dispatch gave her the pen name “Nellie Bly,” after the Stephen Foster song. By 1887m age 23 she was reporting for Joseph Pulitzer’s “New York World.” She went to Chicago in 1894 to cover the Pullman Railroad strike and was the only reporter who told of the strike from the perspective of the strikers.

 Nellie Bly working in a factory producing boxes.

1986 Severe frost in Florida’s space coast freezes Challenger’s O rings, a critical element. A mission stopper, but it can be waived (as 600 other critical items had been) so Challenger can meet its promised schedule. NASA’s upper management is determined to keep its promises. A critical element or item is one whose failure can cause catastrophic loss of the mission. The orange grove farmers are burning pots of oil to try to blanket the orchards from the frigid air. The commodities markets, especially orange juice, are watching the weather carefully, to see if the orange juice crop is damaged. However, even frozen oranges, can be processed for juice for weeks afterwards. The tourist sites have covered plants to avoid freezing.

 The McAuliffe Exhibit in the Henry Whittemore Library at Framingham State University, Massachusetts, alma mater.

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