June 27 444 Cyril Bishop of Alexandria Teacher of the Faith.

1462 Louis XII, King of France born son of Mary of Cleves (1426–1487) and Charles, Duke of Orleans; called “the Father of the People” (French: Le Père du Peuple), was king of France and the sole monarch from the Valois-Orléans branch of the House of Valois. Louis married Anne of Brittany 6 December 1491. In June 1513 De la Motte, the French ambassador to Scotland, arrived in Scotland from France bringing four ships with provisions, fourteen thousand gold crowns of the Sun, and, besides his master’s letters (Louis XII), one from Anne of Brittany, Queen consort, sending a ring and appealing to James IV King of Scots, as Anne’s knight, to succour the French kingdom and queen in their hour of need (Henry 8th King of England had invaded France in the War of the League of Cambrai.) The result was the disaster for the Scots at Flodden Field in September 1513. Anne died at the Chateau of Blois 9 January 1514 of a kidney-stone attack.

Louis XII leaving Alessandria to attack Genoa; by Jean Bourdichon.

1477 Adolf (1438–1477) died at the head of a Flemish army besieging Tournai, after the States of Guelders had recognized him as Duke of Guelders,. (Brother in law of James 2nd King of Scots, clan Stewart). Count of Zutphen from 1465–1471 and in 1477. Adolf was the son of Arnold, Duke of Guelders and Catherine of Cleves.  Adoph’s Coat of Arms. Wikipedia.

1503 Margaret Stewart (nee Tudor) left Richmond with Henry VII Tudor King of England, and Earl of Lancaster, her father, and they travelled first to Collyweston. On her way, at age 13 (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541), to Scotland to be Queen to James 4th Stewart, King of Scots.

A depiction of Margaret from a family tree from the reign of her great-grandson, James VI of Scotland and James I of England.

1559 Stirling, Army of the Congregation, under the Lord James Douglas and Argyle, occupies, pulled down altars, destroyed shrines, purged idolatry, and forced the regent to retreat to Dunbar. Tytler’s Britannica 153.

1583 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, Lord High Treasurer, privy to the king’s escape from Falkland to St. Andrews on 27 June 1583 (Melville, Memoirs, p. 284; Calderwood, History, iii. 715); in any case, on making his appearance at St. Andrews, he was permitted to enter the presence of the king, received from him a formal pardon, and was nominated one of his new privy council. Melville Crest: A ratch hound’s head erased Proper, collared Gules. Motto: DENIQUE COELUM[from Latin: “Heaven at last”].

Compare 1960 – The hound of the Whiskervilles (fiction, probably).  fictional McDuck kilt.

 

1743 History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) the regiment took part in the Battle of Dettingen, War of the Austrian Succession or King George’s War. South West Germany on the North bank of the Main river some 70 miles East of Frankfurt and 3 miles West of Aschaffenburg. This was the last time a reigning British Monarch (Geo. 2nd) led an army into battle.

George II at Dettingen. Also Royal Scots Greys, the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, The King was not the only one who had trouble controlling his horse. The Blues and the King’s Horse are reputed to have bolted through the Royal Scots Fusliiers.

Grenadier of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochaw warned his Royal Scottish Fusiliers not to fire until they could “see the white’s of their e’en.” Holding musket fire until the white’s of their eyes was also the order given to American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) , and later at the Battle of New Orleans (1815).

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). Gist’s Plantation. The army was now out of the mountains.

1778 Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald (d 27.06.1778, 6th son) m1. (c1721) Elizabeth Ker (dau of John Ker of Moriestoun)

1786 baronetcy conferred to Sir James Douglas, knighte for bearing the dispatch announcing the surrender of Quebec in 1759. In 1761 he commanded fleet in Leeward Islands, took Dominica, and had a broad pendant at the siege of Martinique. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p.50.

1844 – To seal the testimony of the Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Mormon, Elder John Taylor announced the amartyrdom of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Hyrum Smith the Patriarch. They were shot in Carthage Illinois jail, on the 27th of June, 1844, about five o’clock p.m., by an armed mob—painted black—of from 150 to 200 persons. First American Presidential candidate to be murdered during campaign. Joseph and Hyrum were co Presidents, apostles, seers, and revelators. (Both Descend from Mack of Inverness Scotland, and Malcolm Canmore King of Scots).

Contemporanious drawing of the assassination of Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith, the aProphet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, csave Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. In the short space of twenty years, he has brought forth the Book of Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power of God, and has been the means of publishing it on two continents; has sent the fulness of the everlasting gospel, which it contained, to the four quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and commandments which compose this book of Doctrine and Covenants, and many other wise documents and instructions for the benefit of the children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter-day Saints, founded a great city, and left a fame and name that cannot be slain. He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people; and like most of the Lord’s anointed in ancient times, has sealed his mission and his works with his own eblood; and so has his brother Hyrum. In life they were not divided, and in death they were not fseparated!  Shaft of light appears between Smith’s body and assassins, frightening the mob away, from eye witness account.

1889 John Knox, Scots’ divine, portrayed by actor Moroni Olsen born (June 27, 1889 – November 22, 1954) was an American actor. Born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the prophet general Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Olsen studied at Weber State Academy, the predecessor of Weber State University. He then went to study at the University of Utah. He was the voice of the Magic Mirror in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). His tour de force was John Knox in Mary of Scotland (1936). He was Buffalo Bill in Annie Oakley (1935), Robert E. Lee in Santa Fe Trail (1940), and Sam Houston in Lone Star (1952). Moroni’s statue is found in front of or over a hundred modern day temples.

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1944 27th/29th – Two days after badly damaging corvette “PINK” (constructive total loss) on the 27th and sinking two merchantmen, “U-988” was caught and sank off the Channel Islands by frigates “Cooke”, “Domett”, “Duckworth” and “Essington” of 3rd EG and a RAF Liberator of No 224 Squadron. www.naval-history Until the closing days of the war, the schnorkel U-boats operating in UK waters were especially worrying. When submerged as invariably they were, detection from the air was difficult even with 10cm wavelength radar, and location usually had to wait until after they had attacked. Then they suffered badly, usually to the surface warship escorts. Monthly Loss Summary
19 British, Allied and neutral ships of 75,000 tons in UK waters.

1945 Sometime in June. Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party was swept from power and the Labour Party under Clement Attlee took over the reins of Britain’s wartime Coalition Government.

1984 Khloe Kardashian born June 27, 1984), reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Daughter of Kristin Mary Houghton Jenner of Scottish descent.

2016 BREXIT. So many politicians and celebrities made recommendations. Tory, Labour and National Scottish Party leaders publicly supported the United Kingdom remaining in the EU (European Union), as did some Americans,

Union Jack mixed with the European Union flag with the BREXIT printed. On June 23, Scotland supported remaining in the EU, while England generally voted to leave.

 

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