January 4  2 AD THE EPIPHANY  may be celebrated on the Sunday between 2^nd  and 8^th of January as the visitation of the Biblical wisemen to the young child Jesus, symbolized with the Twelve Days of Christmas,

Handsel Monday can fall on the 4^th, while January 7^th  is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year. (Scotland).

1066 Edward the confessor took sick. Edward’s cousin was William the Conqueror (son of Robert 1 the Magnificent, son of  Richard 2^nd Duke of Normandy, son of Richard 1 the Fearless) Edward’s mother Emma was daughter of Richard 1 the Fearless.  

Edward’s niece  (Margaret, daughter of Edmund, Edward’s brother) will become ancestress of the Scots royalty by marriage to Malcolm 3^rd  of Scotland, and back into the English line, by her great grandson Henry 2^nd of England.

 Bayeux Tapestry #1.

1451 John II of Egmond died. Son of Arnold I, Count of Egmond (d. 1 April 1409, the son of John I, Count of Egmond and Guida D’Armstall) and Jolanthe of Leiningen (d. 24 April 1434, the daughter of Frederick VII of Leningen and Jolanthe of Jülich).

Egmond coat of arms.

1502 – Treaty of friendship and League of Alliance,  Henry VII Tudor, King of England arranges marriage of daughter Princess Margaret Tudor to James IV Stewart, King Scots. TG 23-349.

 JAMES IV. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company.

1599 never occurred in Scotland.  January 1 to March 24 never happened in the year 1599, in Scotland. Scotland and England kept different calendars (at least from January to March 24) for the next century and a half.

1642 Charles unsuccessfully attempts to personally arrest the Five Members (John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig, and William Strode) on the floor of the House of Commons.

1649 Trial of Charles 1.

Coat of arms of Charles I in Scotland

1746. [Scotland’s year calendar]. The Prince marched towards Stirling, took up his  headquarters at Bannockburn House 1 (Sir Hugh Paterson’s), and the troops occupied the villages around-St. Ninians and Bannockburn.

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 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.

1752 In January 1752, Henry Fielding started a biweekly periodical titled The Covent-Garden Journal, which he would publish under the pseudonym of “Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Knt. Censor of Great Britain” until November of the same year. In this periodical, Fielding directly challenged the “armies of Grub Street” and the contemporary periodical writers of the day in a conflict that would eventually become the Paper War of 1752–3. Andrew Millar, bookseller London by the Strand (clans Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter).

1804 Charlotte Lennox died. (clan Ramsey) Her father, James Ramsay, was a Scottish captain in the Royal Navy, and her mother was Scottish and Irish. She was baptised Barbara Ramsay. Author for Andrew Millar, bookseller London by the Strand (clans Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter).

 The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella etc. London Printed for A. Millar, over against Catherine Street in the Strand. MDCCLII.

1840 Elders Samuel Mulliner and Alexander Wright traveling between Glasgow and Bishopton. Both had been born in Scotland. Both independently emigrated to Canada, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Saints, 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.

1879 In 1878 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called Hugh Findlay to open a mission in the Shetland Islands, an archipelago northeast of Scotland. Findlay arrived on January 4, 1879, and on March 31 baptized the islands’ first two converts

 Lerwick, main port in the Shetland Islands

1896 Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22^nd  and 24^th  President of the United States. When Cleveland won election to a second term, he and the Democratic majority in the 53^rd  United States Congress passed an Enabling Act in 1894 that permitted Utah to apply for statehood. The State of Utah joined the Union on January 4, 1896. Scottish names include-.

Alton, Alta, Altamont, Ballard, Blanding, Bryce, Bryce Canyon, Elsinore, Highland, Ivins, Logan, Nibley, North Logan, Oakley, Sterling, Torrey . Wikipedia

2016 A Few Words About Esquire’s February Cover Star, Donald Trump : (clan MacLeod, Tong, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)

Our February issue, appearing on newsstands early next week.

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