MARCH 15 – Ides of March. See Julius Caesar

Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopaedia Britannica

CHAPTER XII. A. D. 1513 TO 1528. James V. King of Scots

CHRONOLOGY OP THE PERIOD

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Francis I, king of France.
  2. A.D. Sometime this year. Reformation in Germany begun Luther.
  3. A.D. Sometime this year. Charles V. (Charles I, king of Spain), emperor of Germany.
  4. A.D. Sometime this year. Reformation in Switzerland. Zuinglius, fl. Sweden and Denmark united.
  5. A.D. Sometime this year. Gustavus Vasa, king of Sweden.
  6. A.D. Sometime this year. First voyage round the world performed by a ship of Magel1an’s squadron.
  7. A.D. Sometime this year. Rome sacked by the army of Charles V. Pizarro begins the conquest of Peru.

1538 some time in. Pestilence. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1543 – Andrew Stewart, 3rd Lord Avandale, styled Lord Stewart of Ochiltree, by Earl of Arran, governor of the kingdom and consent of parliament. In consequence of an exchange of the barony of Avandale and lands of Coldstream to Sir James Hamilton of Fynnart.

  • [Hamilton 2Stewart 2Millar 2simmons 2Choate 2Sorensen]

Ochiltree was governor of the castle of Dumbarton, and held the office of groom of the stole to King James the Fourth. Anderson v 1/p. 170.

http://fabpedigree.com/s072/f245640.htm Prime Minister Churchill’s 12 Great Grandfather, Lady Diana’s 14th Great Uncle. Prime Minister Cameron’s 14th Great Uncle. HRH Albert’s II’s 14th Great Grandfather. Actor Reese Witherspoon’s 16th great grandfather. Judge john Choate’s 16th great grandfather.

1577 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, lord high treasurer, sent with others of a deputation to Morton to request him to surrender the castle of Edinburgh (ib. p. 3), when he was chosen by Morton as one of the ‘neutral men’ who might meanwhile be named keepers of the castle.

1599 never happened in Scotland.

1642 the Long Parliament proclaims that “the People are bound by the Ordinance for the Militia, though it has not received the Royal Assent.”

1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence in an attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms, by suspending the execution of the penal laws that punished recusants from the Church of England. Penal laws prevented non-Church of England persons, who refused the oath, from holding military commissions, judicial positions, academic appointments, clerical vestments, corporate directorships, sitting on a jury (venire men), giving oaths, offering testimony as a witness at trial, holding manufacturing licenses, sitting in Parliament, importing, assembling, publishing, speaking, worshiping, owning arms, and worshiping. The penal laws began in 1534, and The leniency is revoked, reimposed, off and on until 1829.

SCOTLAND – http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd06402.htm

Penal laws were passed against Catholics by the Scottish Parliament from 1560 to 1707, the most important being the following:

for hearing or saying Mass, confiscation of goods, banishment or death (1560)

apprehension of persons possessing papal Bulls, etc. (1571)

forbidding the harboring of Catholic priests

parents required to withdraw children from Catholic schools

persecuted Catholics should be pursued (1629)

reward for conviction of any priest or Jesuit (1700)

Catholics prohibited from inheriting property or educating children

After the Act of Union (1707) these laws were still enforced, besides many other restrictions prohibiting the spread of Catholic books, preventing Catholics from becoming school-masters or guardians, etc.

1751 Samuel Stanhope Smith, born, later married Ann Witherspoon, daughter of John Witherspoon, who succeeded Witherspoon as president of Princeton in 1795. Witherspoon descended from John Knox and Andrew Stewart 2nd Lord Ochiltree. Reese Witherspoon is a niece of Ann Witherspoon and descendant of Malcolm, King of Scots. Good thing he was born in Scotland, because this date did not exist in England or British North America.

Reece Witherspoon about 2012. Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, professionally known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress, film producer, and television producer. Wikipedia.

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. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field.

1754 – Archibald Menzies, [pronounced Min-gis] Scottish naturalist and surgeon (d. 1842)

1767 Andrew Jackson (Scots) (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845)

7th President 1829-37 United States : He was born in the predominantly Ulster-Scots Waxhaws area of South Carolina two years after his parents left Boney before, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim.

Caernarfon castle, Carrickfergus Castle, Edinburgh Castle. www.dreamstime.com

A heritage centre in the village pays tribute to the legacy of ‘Old Hickory’, the People’s President. Andrew Jackson then moved to Tennessee, where he served as Governor

Andrew Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815).

On the same day [August 22, 23, 1877] these ordinances were performed, President Woodruff records in his journal that he baptized brother McAllister for Gen Washington & his forefathers and all the Presidents of the United States that were on my list. There were Baptized in all to day 682” (Woodruff, Journal 7:367-69)–Arnold K. Garr, Epilogue, Christopher Columbus, p. 71-73. [at their request]

1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, Coldstream Regiment of Foot, Guards 71st Fraser’s Highlanders. General Charles Cornwallis made the difficult decision to fire grapeshot into the intermingling masses of the British and American troops. While the British troops took heavy casualties from the grapeshot, the Americans were forced to withdraw. The 2nd Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards lost 11 officers of 19 and 200 soldiers of 450. Their commanding officer, Brigadier Charles O’Hara of the Coldstream Guards being severely wounded. History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804). Cornwallis’ daughter married Cochrane (cousin of Wesley Scott Summers.

American Continental Line. Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene observed as the veteran 1st Maryland Regiment threw back a British attack and countered with a bayonet charge. As they reformed their line, William Washington’s Light Dragoons raced by to rescue raw troops of the 5th Maryland Regiment who had buckled under a furious assault of British Grenadiers and Guards.

Drummer and soldier Coldstream Guards

  • The 71st Regiment [Fraser’s Highlanders] under Lieutenant Colonel Duncan MacPherson began to move at about one in the afternoon as the British line advanced. The British left may have lost as many as a third of its force in engaging the first line of Americans. Captain Dugald Stewart of the [Fraser’s Highlanders] said: “One half of the Highlanders dropped on that spot” (Later estimates put the regiment’s actual losses that day at about 70 men). After this volley, the British returned fire and drove the American first line from the field with a charge.
  • The British left then began a contested drive through the second American line and into the open ground in front of the American third. But the British right, including [Fraser’s Highlanders], became entangled in a hotly contested skirmish in the woods. This action then split into two, and [Fraser’s Highlanders] were engaged by the Virginia militia in heavy woods, unsupported by any other unit. This was just one of many small battles within the larger battle of Guilford Courthouse where sub-regimental units struggled as individuals and small parties of men without the clearly defined lines which were the convention at the time.
  • The success of [Fraser’s Highlanders], along on the British right, now began to support the entire effort. Because the regiment had continued as ordered, they were able to tie-down the Virginia militia in the American second line which prevented them from flanking the British left. Finally, after an exhausting fight, [Fraser’s Highlanders] broke the American second line and the threat to the British flank was eliminated, though the regiment remained in the woods and could provide no support to the main advance on the third American line. The losses at Guilford Courthouse totalled over 500 dead and wounded, of these, The losses at Guilford Courthouse totalled over 500 dead and wounded, of these, [Fraser’s Highlanders] lost Ensign Grant and 11 men killed, with 50 men wounded (including 4 sergeants and 46 other ranks), or a total of 62 casualties.

1790 Nicola Vaccai (15 March 1790 – 5 or 6 August 1848) was an Italian composer of operas. [I solitari di Scozia, 1815]

Nicola Vaccai. Professor Alexander Weatherson in the 2009 Donizetti Society Newsletter wrote Scotland’s soil was about to be profaned by a stream of operas that bore the footprint of [Elizabeth’s] rival……without Mary Stuart, Scotland might have been left in peace….In Italy alone in the earliest decades of the nineteenth century there was a Scotch broth of operas.

1820 Maine becomes a state. Scottish place names include (Wikipedia)-

North Berwick

1821 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892) born.

1830 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York – Egbert Bratt Grandin (March 30, 1806 – April 16, 1845). A model of his press is in the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah.

Grandin shop Palmyra New York.

The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Grandin bought “500 pounds of new small pica” type in New York. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures, a form per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

35th       form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Ether

1833 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 92. revelation is directed to a counselor in the First Presidency.

1841 Paisley Scotland. the baptism of Mrs. Agnes Campbell,

  • Campbell Earl of Argyll 1010 2Montgomery2Blair 2Cochrane2Miller 2Simmons2Choate to Zoë TOAG

by Thomas Jaap, who is also listed in the Sproul diary. Francis Sproul, who was branch president of the Paisley Branch in the early 1840s, or perhaps his son or brother, Andrew Sproul (also spelled “Sprowel” and “Sprowl”), who served as a missionary in this region during this same time period. See Andrew Sproul, Diary (1840–47), typescript, 2, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City

1799 map shows Paisly in Renfrewsh[ire] due west of Glasgow, east of the Clyde Frith, Other villages were Largis, Kilwining,Waterford, Aikenhead, Rutherylen, Dumbarton, Greenocle.

1897 Winton Motor Carriage Company incorporated as a pioneer United States automobile manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio.  

1995 Alexander Winton, a Scottish immigrant, settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he established the Winton Bicycle Company. In 1896, he built his first single – cylinder experimental car. The following year, he established the Winton Motor Carriage Company and built his second car, with a ten-horsepower engine, which he drove at 33.64 mph around Cleveland’s Glenville Track. By the end of 1898, he had sold twenty-two cars, one of which was purchased by James Ward Packard. Winton became the first to set up the orderly production schedule, which aided in transforming the manufacturing of automobiles to a formal industry.

1932 Alan Bean, (born March 15, 1932) astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon. (clan Bean)

1940s

Scrooge (fictional clan McDuck)

2012 Sharing stories from family history: Robert Crookston’s testimony of the Prophet. Robert Crookston was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after hearing the gospel from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries in Scotland in 1840 and never turned from what he knew to be true.

He and several family members immigrated to Nauvoo in 1841, and that’s where they first met the Prophet Joseph Smith. “It was the most thrilling experience of my life for I know that he was a prophet of God.” In 1844 “I saw Brigham Young stand up and speak to the people, and he spoke with the voice of Joseph Smith,” Robert Crookston wrote in a signed and witnessed statement in 1903, continuing that he had heard Joseph speak several times, including at King Follett’s funeral and his “last adieu” to the Nauvoo Legion.

“As to Brigham Young, I know of a surety that he spoke with the voice of Joseph Smith, and I was convinced there and have never doubted during all the intervening years that have passed that Brigham Young was chosen and ordained of God to lead the church ….”

Robert Crookston joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland, emigrated to Navuoo and met Joseph Smith. Later he went west to Salt Lake City.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865552171/Sharing-stories-from-family-history-Robert-Crookstons-testimony-of-the-Prophet.html?pg=all