June 26 – 1439 Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, died.

1559 Scone Palace and Abbey church. Army of the Congregation, occupies, pulled down altars, destroyed shrines, purged idolatry. Tytler’s Britannica 153.

Scone Palace – www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk

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

1685 Rumbold captured for Ryehouse conspiracy. (TG53-282). Cards and the Ryehouse conspiracy. The King was James 2nd of England,7th of Scotland.

1718 John Miller of Neilston had been educated at Glasgow on June 26, 1718, Miller had the honor to be chosen the university’s dean. Munimenta Universitatis Glasquensis. 1450-1727, 75YYMA Vol. II p. 566′ gives an irritated account of what happened, or rather failed to happen, thereafter. The minutes of the Board of Visitors note that following [Miller’s] election, two masters were sent ‘to intimate the same unto him, and that several letters had been wrote to him since to know if he was willing to accept, but that the said Mr. John had never thought fitt to declare his mind in that matter…..he has not thought fit to accept the said office of Dean, nor given any ground to believe he will accept, whereby the affairs of the University may suffer for want of a Dean, that the said office of Dean is vacant.’ The Visitors came to this conclusion in October, after ‘the Committee had not since their meeting seen any Dean present in the University.’

John Miller remained at Neilston until he died, the same year as Robert Miller (II), in 1732.

1755 Battle of Monongahela River 1755 – Braddock’s Defeat, Fort Duquesne, western Pennsylvania Colony. The French and Indian War also known as the Seven Year War (1757 to 1762) the army camped at Rock Fort, an Indian encampment.

1787 Arthur Middleton died (June 26, 1742 –January 1, 1787), of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. The United States Navy ship, USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55/APA-25), was named for him. Arthur’s father Henry Middleton (1717 – June 13, 1784) was a plantation owner and public official from South Carolina. He was the second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until Peyton Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775.

1824 Lord Kelvin. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, Order of Merit GCVO, Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order knighthood, PC, Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Prvy Council, PRS, President of the Royal Society, PRSE, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was an Irish-born British mathematical physicist and engineer

 

1830 George IV King of Scots and English, died, age 68, and succeeded by his brother William IV. Tytler’s Britannica.

George IV, 1762 – 1830. Reigned as Regent 1811 – 1820, as King 1820 – 1830. (Satirical print entitled: “The First Laird in Aw Scotia”, or A View of Edinburgh in August 1822, ‘O’ my Bonny Bonny Highland Laddie, my Handsome etc). Artist unknown 1822. George IV’s visit to Scotland in 1822 was the first made by a reigning monarch since the time of Charles II. Sir Walter Scott stage-managed the event, which was seen as symbolising the new relationship between the kingdoms after the traumas of the previous century. Scott convinced many of the participants in the ceremonies to wear Highland dress, which provoked amusement and some criticism. The king, too, insisted on wearing Highland dress, although he only wore a kilt once, to greet guests at Holyrood. Satirists had a field day; here George is shown alongside Sir William Curtis, former Lord Mayor of London, whose experiment with Highland dress seems even more ill-advised than that of the king. www.nationalgalleries.org

Mine anger is kindled against the rebellious.

1842 Sproul, Diary, June 26, 1842, 79, notes that Mathew Hunter was “baptized by Priest Hugh Campbell & confirmed by E. Jaap on the above date.” This appears to be the husband of Agnes. A “B. [Brother] Cambel” from the Paisley region is mentioned several times in Sproul’s diary as an active local missionary.

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 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Spreull of Cowden Spreule.

  1. Utah War. Army troops under Colonel Albert S. Johnston entered the Salt Lake Valley unhindered. Riding through the still empty streets of Salt Lake City on June 26, an embittered Johnston was heard to say that he would have given “his plantation for a chance to bombard the city for fifteen minutes.” In 3 years, by then General Johnston invaded the United States in a real rebellion. Called ‘Buchanan’s Blunder’ by elements of the national press. (clan Buchanan)

Utah War from Atlantic Monthly April 1859. The Utah Expedition.

www.nhfelt.org/default.asp?PG=DOC_THEUTAHEXPEDITION_APR1859

1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States, to be celebrated generally on December 25th. In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland discouraged Christmas, and though James VI commanded its celebration in 1618, attendance at church was scant. The Parliament of Scotland officially abolished the observance of Christmas in 1640, claiming that the church had been “purged of all superstitious observation of days”. It was not until 1958 that Christmas again became a Scottish public holiday.

Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present. From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, 1843. Later namesake for Scrooge McDuck, (of the fictional Scots McDuck clan). Dickens states that Scrooge stems from a grave marker which he saw in 1841, while taking an evening walk in the Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh. The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of Adam Smith, who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh (in 1822) and the first contract to supply whisky to the Royal Navy.

 

1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Guthrie Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

James Guthrie Harbord (March 21, 1866 – August 20, 1947) (clar Guthrie) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army and President and Chairman of the Board of RCA. Guthrie Oklahoma was Oklahoma’s first state capitol in 1907.

Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst) (6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) of the House of Hohenzollern was the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire. Wilhelm’s great grandmother was Queen Victoria, 4th great granddaughter of James 6th Stewart King of Scots, James 1st King of the English.

1961 November 17. General John j. Pershing. distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War and later headed the War Department’s Division of Customs and Insular Affairs. Later he went to the Philippines to lead a series of important expeditions among the hostile Moros. In 1905 he went to Tokyo, and then went to Manchuria as an observer of the Russo-Japanese War. President Theodore Roosevelt promoted Pershing to brigadier general in 1906 and placed him in command of Fort McKinley near Manila. Three years later, Pershing was named governor of Moro province. In 1916-1917, he led the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. His experience led to command of the American Expeditionary Forces in 1917. He emerged from World War I as the most celebrated American hero. Congress created for him a new rank: General of the Armies. Yssoa’

1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir movie released, with Rex Harrison as the Ghost. The movie was filmed in California, and plot was set in England. But Muir is an old Scottish clan, so it deserves a mention. Romantic chic flic set about 1890s.

1959 Donald in Mathmagic Land is a 27-minute Donald Duck featurette. In 1961, two years after its release, it had the honor of being introduced by Ludwig Von Drake (fictional clan McDuck) and shown on the first program of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. Donald Duck, holding a hunting rifle, passes through a doorway to find that he has entered Mathmagic Land. This “mighty strange” fantasy land contains trees with square roots, a stream flowing with numbers, and a walking pencil that plays tic-tac-toe. Interestingly, a geometric bird recites (almost perfectly) the first 15 digits of pi.

Donald jams with the Pythagoreans. The film closes with a quote from Galileo: “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe”. Galileo was teaching at the University of Padua circa 1596 when the Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, Perth, attended there.

1981 Dragonslayer filmed in Skye, Scotland and was a co-production between Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures,

 

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