January  6  2 THE EPIPHANY – may be celebrated on the Sunday between 2^nd  and 8^th of January the visitation of the Wisemen to the young child Jesus, Twelve Days of Christmas,  (actually about 2 years after the birth).

Handsel Monday can fall from January 1^st to 7^th  is the latest; as the first Monday of the year. (Scotland). Auld Hansel Monday, is traditionally celebrated on the first Monday after the January 12.

The “handsel”, Scots for  tips and gifts of money, are given the first working week of a new year.

1286 King Philip IV of France coronation (‘the Fair’). The Auld alliance. (1268-1314) HM King George I’s (Hanover) 11-Great Grandfather.       HRE Ferdinand I’s 6-Great Grandfather.       U.S. Presiden Benjamin Harrison’s 14-Great Grandfather.       Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s 18-Great Grandfather. Fabpeidgree.com

1480 sometime this year.  Battle of Tarbat The Clan Ross cornered a raiding party of Clan Mackay.

1540 Anne of Cleves married as fourth wife of Henry VIII of England. Great niece of Catherine of Cleves. 6 January 1540 – 9 July 1540: Her Majesty Queen Anne of England.  Henry’s protestant conversion of England will eventually influence the same in Scotland in 1560.

Portrait of Anne of Cleves, c. 1539. Oil and tempera on parchment mounted on canvas, Louvre, Paris.

1599 never happened in Scotland. Year skipped to 1600.

1645 the Committee of Both Kingdoms orders the creation of the New Model Army.

1661 Rebellion by the 5^th  Monarchists led by Thomas Venner on 6 January 1661 keeps Monck’s Regiment of Foot in tact.  Soon to be called Majesty’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards.

1696 The Darien colony. Sometime  in January, the isthmus between the Pacific and Atlantic, and the two Americas.

     That every thing might be ready for their extensive operations, the Darien Company proceeded to build a large tenement near Bristo-port, Edinburgh, to serve as an office for transacting their business, with a large range of buildings behind it, designed as warehouses, to be filled with the richest commodities of the eastern and western world. But, sad event of human hopes and wishes the office is now [1827] occupied as a receptacle for paupers, and the extensive warehouses as a lunatic asylum.

 ‘Darien House’, headquarters of the Company of Scotland in Edinburgh; now demolished (2013).

     According to the Darien Historical Society, the name Darien Connecticut  was used in 1820, when the residents of the town could not agree on a name to replace Middlesex Parish, many families wanting the Parish to be named after themselves. A sailor who had traveled to Darién, Panama, then part of the Spanish Empire, suggested the name Darien, which was eventually adopted by the people of the town.’ Town featured in the movie Gentlemen’s Agreement, best picture, circa 1947.

 Features Darien Connecticut, named for the Scots lost colony of Darien.

1746 (Scotland and Edinburgh’s date) 1745 (England and London’s Date).

The Ancient key of Stirling delivered by the Provost and Magistrates to bonnie Prince Charlie when his Highland Army entered at 2 p.m. on Monday, 6^th January 1746. Bought at the Banockburn Sale o 5^th October 1960 Lot 107. Returned to the Provost and Magistrates of Stirling by Captain Charles A. Hepburn of Hillhead at111.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 24^th January, 1961.

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Stirling Castle was controlled by General Blakeney who refused to surrender to the Jacobites,  who launced a seige of the castle the same day 6 January 1746.  Prince Charles had a list of Stirling’s citizens who had registered their arms with the government, and Charles threatened execution all of those citizens who did not disarm and turn over their weapons to his army.  Note there was no belief the arms were to be used in perpetrating crime, but only to enforce an attempt at political change. Purpose was not to prevent crime, but eliminate political opposition.

      Ultimately the ’45 will ruin Scotland’s economy and force vast multidutes  (4/5^ths  or more) to immigrate (or flee) to the colonies. The cleansing will continue thru the reigns of George 2^nd and George 3^rd, a total of 75 years.

       The town of Stirling summoned. On Jan. 6^th  Hawley, who had been appointed to command in Scotland, reached Edinburgh;between the 2^nd

and the 10^th  ten battalions of foot amrived there, and Cobham’a dragoons the 15^th.

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.

1776  Hamilton Takes Command. On January 6, 1776, the New York Provincial Congress ordered that an artillery company be raised to defend the colony; Alexander Hamilton,

won the support of Continental Congressmen John Jay and William Livingston [clan Livingstone]. Hamilton was offered a post as brigade major and aide-de-camp to Scotsman Lord Stirling (William Alexander), commander of the newly formed New Jersey Militia. Then Nathanael Greene, a major general in the Continental Army, invited Hamilton to become his aide-de-camp as well. Hamilton declined both, to seek his own command

By April 1776, Captain Alexander Hamilton, of the New York Provincial Company of Artillery, and 69 soldiers, were assigned to construct a major portion of the earthworks that reached halfway across Manhattan Island. Atop Bayard’s Hill, on the highest ground overlooking the city, Hamilton built a heptagonal fort, Bunker Hill. 

When Washington inspected the works, with its eight 9-pounders, four 3-pounders and six cohorn mortars, in mid-April General Washington praised Hamilton for his “masterly manner of executing the work.”

1840 Between Glasgow and Bishopton. Elders Samuel Mulliner and Alexander Wright arrived in Scotland in 1839. Appropriately, both had been born in Scotland, 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.  Ensign October 1978

1854 Sherlock Holmes fictional birthday. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional Scots detective created by Scottish physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle said fictional Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a

clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like fictional Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, is also cited as a source for fictional Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime.

 The first appearance of fictional Holmes in fiction, 1887.  Fictional Watson’s own fictional account of his fictional wounding in the real Second Afghan War and subsequent fictional return to real England in fictional ‘A Study in Scarlet’ place his fictional moving in with fictional Holmes in either early 1881 or 1882. Together, these suggest fictional Holmes left the fictional university in 1880; if he began fictional university at the age of 17, his birth year would likely be 1861.

      One hundred twenty years after fictional Dr. Watson left, Dr. Mark Choate  (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter, Meldrum, Cochrane) followed fictional Dr. Watson in a return to real Afghanistan in Enduring Freedom as Major Choate.

Fictional Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes’s chronicler (his “Boswell” as Holmes refers to Watson ).

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 The real Boswell is separately noticed in these Scots Book of Days.

 A portrait of fictional Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from The Strand Magazine, 1891 in “The Man with the Twisted Lip. Holmes has a flair for showmanship and will prepare elaborate traps to capture and expose a culprit, often to impress Watson or one of the Scotland Yard inspectors.

         A Study in Scarlet is a satirical look at the supposed fictional [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] culture and its renowned organizational abilities, a third of the way around the world from Scotland.  [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]s were the first in the Western world to invent and apply massive irrigation from mountain lakes and streams to make the high desert in the American west  blossom as a rose. All water sources previously recorded were based on wells or hauling water from natural streams and lakes. This [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] irrigation invention is noticed in Oklahoma Senator and Governor Robert Kerr’s Land Wood and Water 1961.] One chapter of fictional Study describes fictional members posting around the clock fictional guards surrounding a fictional remote ranch home every day for a month or six weeks, in the dead of winter time, (15 hour nights) but far enough away as to avoid notice (hundreds of yards), to prevent a fictional couple from fleeing the mountain west (with thousands of real passes and routes in any direction).   Doyle treats and guesses the American west as if it were an Island off of Britain, with a finite number of few rivers and ports, self contained and naturally secluded.  Such a  fictional watch would have taken thousands of guards and tens of thousands of  fictional man hours to fulfill such a fictional preposterous assignment, all with fictional volunteer help, of course, living outside in the mountain winter weather.  (No fictional fires allowed, for food or warmth, as this would have been noticed). A fictional miracle!

1890 DAVID L. HOGGAN  born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 6, 1890, a son of David and Martha (Swanier) Hoggan. grandfather in the paternal line was Walter Hoggan, a native of Scotland, who became a contractor in stone in Utah.

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1912 New Mexico becomes a state. Scottish names include (Wikipedia)-

Blackrock, Garfield, Glenrio (from Scots “glen” + Spanish “rio” (meaning “river”).), Glenwood. Grant, Hope, Kingston, Logan,  McIntosh, McKinley, Melrose, Newkirk, Riverside. Torrance

1919 Theodore Roosevelt  died (Scots) (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) 26^th  President, 1901-09: His maternal 3^rd great grandmother, Jean Stobo, emigrated to America from Scotland with her parents in 1699.

Taft and Roosevelt – political enemies in 1912

1976 The 200^th  Anniversary of the Birth of Lord Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860  Stamps Water  Mark: None   Perforation: 14¾. Chile

1984 Eric Trump, son born to Donald John Trump, Sr. (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (born June 14, 1946 business, real estate magnate and television personality), mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, (born May 10, 1912,– died August 7, 2000), who was married in 1936. Mary Anne was born at Tong, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, off the coast of Scotland, United Kingdom.  At age 18, in 1930, Mary visited the United States, met Fred Trump and them were married in 1936.

Mother is Ivana Zelníčková.

 zimbio.com Donald and Eric Trump, Tiger Woods, World Golf  Championship

2008 Scottish fling: Tourism expected to increase in Loch Ness region where movie ‘Water Horse’ was filmed. LOCH NESS, Scotland — The Christmas Day release of the film, “The Water Horse,” is likely to spark a storm of renewed interest in the Loch Ness monster. The legendary sea creature, known affectionately as Nessie, is said to swim the depths of Scotland’s fabled lake.

Urquhart Castle, a ruin dating from the 16^th  century, has a commanding view of Loch Ness. The fortress is a reflection of Scotland’s turbulent past.

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