MARCH 19 12 Saint Joseph of Nazareth feast day.

MAUNDY THURSDAY, earliest the Thursday in the week before Easter Day. always between 19 March and 22 April.

1286 Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (daughter of King Erik II and grand-daughter of Alexander III) inherits the throne. September 26 Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (“Eiriksdotter”) died en route from Norway to Scotland. She was granddaughter to Alexander III contract a second marriage to Yolande de Dreux on 1 November 1285. But the sudden death of the king dashed all such hopes. Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 19 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

1286 – King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241) died.

Alexander III dies – 1287. The death of Alexander III leads Scotland into a succession crisis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotland_united/alexander_iii_dies/

1307 Palm Sunday. Sir James Douglas, age 19, surprised English garrison who controlled Douglas castle, which had previously been seized, took the gold, silver, apparel, ammunition, armour, he could use, then piled the stored meal, corn, grain, ale and wine on the store, piled dead on the heap, ‘the Douglas Larder’, threw dead horses in the well, and burned the castle to the walls. The English rebuilt it twice, and twice more Douglas took it, so it was called ‘Perilous Castle of Douglas’. English styled him ‘the Black Douglas’, and Scots ‘the good Sir James Douglas.’ Anderson Scots History v. 2 / p. 51.

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1525 Sometime in March. Margaret (Dowager Queen Mother of King James 5th – widow of James 4th, divorced from Douglas Earl of Angus) did her fading cause no good at all when in March she married Henry Stewart (Son of Lord Avondale, brother of Lord Ochiltree. Henry was later styled Lord Methven, and becomes ancestor of the Ruthven line). This time her marriage was more for pleasure than for political gain but it so angered Arran that he defected to the Douglas cause taking with him many of his supporters that had gathered at Linlithgow that winter. www.bolb.org.uk

1599 never happened in Scotland. January went from the 11th month in 1598 to the 1st month in 1600.

1643 Battle of Hopton Heath.

1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (b. 1636).

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1721 Tobias George Smollettborn Dalquhurn, Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. University of Glasgow, qualifying as a surgeon.

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Etc. London Printed for A. Law, W. Millar, and T. Martin MDCCXCIV.

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.

1799 Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, born, Prime Minister, 14th Earl of Derby b 19 Mar 1799, Knowsley, Lancashire 
d 23 Oct 1869, Knowsley. Grandparent Elizabeth Hamilton 
   b 26 Jan 1753, Holyrood House, Edinburgh, Scotland, d 14 Mar 1797, Marylebone, London, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton 
   b 5 Jul 1724 
   d 17 Jan 1758, Great Tew, Oxfordshire 
   m 14 Feb 1752 (registered at Mayfair Chapel). Great Great Grandparents; James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton b 5 Jan 1702 (England)/1703 (Scot) 
 d 2 Mar 1742/43, Bath m 14 Feb 1722/23 
21 Anne Cochrane 
   b 22 Feb 1707, Edinburgh Scotland
   d 14 Aug 1724. Great Great Great Grand parents, John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald (b 04.07.1687, d 05.06.1720) (04.04.1706) married Anne Murray (d 30.11.1710, daughter of Charles Murray, 1st   Earl of Dunmore).

1813 David Livingstone born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

James G. Bleak, Clerk to Brigham Young wrote “I was also present [August 22, 23, 1877] in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits… .And also others, . . . Who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done. Wilford Woodruff was baptized for all of them. While I and Brothers J.D.T. McAllister and David H Cannon (who were witnesses to the request) were endowed for them.

1830 Joseph Smith, at Manchester, New York, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 19.  For, behold, the mystery of godliness, how great is it! For, behold, I am endless, and the punishment which is given from my hand is endless punishment, for Endless is my name.

The Joseph Smith Building on the campus of Brigham Young University. Wikipedia

1848 Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was a city policeman (“assistant city marshal”) in Wichita, Kansas and Dodge City, Kansas. Wyatt also served as a deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona. In 1869 Wyatt met Urilla Sutherland (c.1849–1870), the daughter of hotel-keeper William and Permelia Sutherland, (clan Sutherland) formerly of New York City, who died the next year. Earp was of Scot’s descent.

When the lawman Wyatt Earp arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, with his brothers Virgil and Morgan and his friend Doc Holliday, he began one of the most dramatic and well-known chapters of auld West history. The group became involved in a dispute with the Clanton family, which culminated in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881. usstampgallery.com

1857 William Henry Playfair dies. Educated at Edinburgh Academy, Designed National Gallery. Edinburgh building as a “temple erected to the Fine Arts”. In 1889 William Hole paints frieze of Heroes of Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh.

Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist;

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David Livingstone, missionary and explorer; Sir James Young Simpson, discoverer of chloroform; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, geologist; Sir David Brewster, natural philosopher; Sir Charles Lyell, geologist; Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, Field-Marshal;

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1894 Seventeen Eminent Scots men and women were previously baptized after personal visions or dreams as spirits. “Much of President Woodruff’s meditations, as well as his hopes and ambitions, were associated with the world beyond the veil, and yet was not in the least sense a fanatically visionary man. When he had important dreams the were in harmony with his religious conceptions and apart of his duty, both to man and God. On the night of March 19th , 1894, [President Woodruff] had a dream which followed his meditations upon the future life and the work that he had done for the dead. In his dream there appeared to him Benjamin Franklin for whom he had performed important ceremonies in the House of God. This distinguished patriot, according to his dream, sought further blessings in the Temple of God at the hands of his benefactor, President Woodruff wrote: ‘I spent some time with him and we talked over our Temple ordinances which had been administered for Franklin and others. He wanted more work done for him than had already been done. I promised him it should be done. I awoke and then made up my mind to receive further blessings for Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.’ It may be well here to record the fact that President Woodruff and D.T. McAllister, at the early opening of the St. George Temple were baptized for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and for nearly all the Presidents of the United States. The appearance, therefore, in his dream, of Franklin, was to him a satisfying conclusion that he had at least received joyfully the blessings that came to him from the ordinances of the Lord’s House.” (Matthias E Cowley, Wilford Woodruff–His Life and Labors, p. 585-9.)

Postmaster Benjamin Franklin one cent.

1905 Hon. William Joseph Campbell (March 19, 1905 – October 19, 1988) was a United States federal judge and the longest serving Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

1950 Janice Ruiz born, from Sacramento. (Douglas, Livingston, and Scots descendant).

1965 March 19 Jensen informed President McKay on March 19, 1965, that the stone “‘What e’er thou art, act well thy part.’” Inspiring to David O. McKay. [David McKay from Caithness Scotland reared a son, David O. McKay who became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ .] had been recovered from Albany Crescent and that he intended to keep the stone in Edinburgh unless instructed otherwise. Jensen included a photograph. Claire Middlemiss, Journal [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] History 33_3_2007 {matt_richardson@byu.edu}

the ‘Allan stone.’