MARCH 20 – 687 Saint Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, feast day. Missionary, 687

GOOD FRIDAY, the Friday in the week before Easter Day, always between 20 March and 22 April or 23 April (for leap years).

2012 Vernal equinox and autumnal equinox: these classical names are direct derivatives of Latin (ver = spring and autumnus = autumn).

1141 King Malcolm IV born.

1250 “Let sweet tongues join together in singing their alleluias as they set to the music of song and instruments those wondrous works of Cuthbert, the wonder-worker”
translated from a medieval chant to St Cuthbert. Coldingham Priory, Berwickshire, Scotland.

‘Celebrating St Cuthbert’s Day at Coldingham Priory’ by Eric Ritchie. Nearest are the ordinary people. They are kept separate from the monks performing the rites in the sanctuary. Behind the monks are figures painted on the wall.

1366 William, 5th Earl of Sutherland released soon after 20 Mar. 1366/7, when he and his wife Joanna Menteith had a safe-conduct to return to England from a visit to Scotland on parole.

1413 – King Henry 4th of England died (b. 1367). Henry IV’s son, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and mother of their daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II. The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, father was Claud Bowes Lyon became the 14th Earl, Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904.

The Queen Mother Portrait by Richard Stone, 1986

1473 John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond (died 1519) had a charter of the offices of seneschal and coroner of the earldom of Strathearn (Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, ed. Paul, 1424–1513, p. 236), in which he was confirmed in the succeeding reign (b. p. 372).

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1519 James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran

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by members of the regency Arran had been elected their president, but was, upon all occasions, opposed by the Douglas, earl of Angus. Having, in 1519, while the plague raged at Edinburgh, conveyed the young king, James V, for greater security, to the castle of Dalkeith, Arran was, on his return to Edinburgh, denied entrance by the citizens, on the instigation of Angus, and the gates shut against him.

1586 – Richard Maitland, died, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)

1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic, or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1, 27:31, Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, 88:104.)

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”. December went from the 10th month in 1598 to the 12th month in 1600.

1636 Treaty of Wismar signed on March 20, 1636, by France and Sweden at Wismar in Mecklenburg. The accord was negotiated for Sweden by Count Axel Gustafsson. The signatories agreed to unite forces against the Habsburgs, with France attacking on the left bank of the Rhine River and Sweden fighting in Silesia and Bohemia.

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.

1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, died, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705). William Murray was born on 2 March 1705, at Scone Palace in Perthshire, Scotland, the fourth son of David Murray (1665 – 19 November 1731 5th Viscount of Stormont and his wife, Margaret, née Scott and one of eleven children.

Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench The Right Honourable The Earl of Mansfield SL, PC is perhaps best known for his judgment in Somersett’s Case, where he held that slavery was unlawful in England (although this did not end slave trafficking altogether).

1801 Alexandria Egypt. Sir Ralph Abercromby, commands British army against French. Tytler’s Britannica.

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, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. 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 used a Smith Improved Printing Press invented by Peter Smith (1795–1823), which first appeared on the market about 1821

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

36th       form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Moroni

1839 Joseph Smith the Prophet, Liberty, Missouri, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a mall moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.  Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.  Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did Job.  And they who do charge thee with transgression, their hope shall be blasted, and their prospects shall melt away as the hoar frost melteth before the burning rays of the rising sun; And also that God hath set his hand and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness;

Restored Liberty Missouri jail showing thick walls.

Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost; That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off. Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen?  Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one lesson— That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness. That they may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man. Behold, ere he is aware, he is left unto himself, to kick against the pricks, to persecute the saints, and to fight against God.

Doctrine and Covenants 121.

The jail in Liberty, Missouri, about 1878. www.lds.org/scriptures/

1868 March 20. Chancery Court (Louisville Kentucky) order eventually appealed to Watson v. Jones, 80 US 679 – Supreme Court 1872. This is a case of a division or schism in the church. It is a question as to which of two bodies shall be recognized as the Third or Walnut Street Presbyterian Church. the proposition is laid down by Lord Eldon, that it is the duty of the court to inquire and decide the true standard of faith in the church organization, and which of the contending parties before the court holds to this standard. In a case *** Court of Sessions of Scotland, had failed to find on this latter subject. The dissenting church in England is not a free church in the sense in which we apply the term in this country, and it was much less free in Lord Eldon’s time than now. Laws then existed upon the statute-book hampering the free exercise of religious belief and worship in many most oppressive forms, and though Protestant dissenters were less burdened than Catholics and Jews, there did not exist that full, entire, and practical freedom for all forms of religious belief and practice which lies at the foundation of our political principles. And it is quite obvious, from an examination of the series of cases growing out of the organization of the Free Church of Scotland, found in Shaw’s Reports of Cases in the Court of Sessions, that it was only under the pressure of Lord Eldon’s ruling, established in the House of Lords, *** [see] the case of Craigdallie v. Aikman, in the Scottish court,

1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, regarding the fall of the Philippines, says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return”. Douglas MacArthur was the grandson of jurist and politician Arthur MacArthur, Sr., a Scottish immigrant, himself of Glasgow, Scotland, the descendant of Highlander nobility through his father,

2006 Barron William Trump born son of Donald and Melania Trump, Manhattan New York. (clans McQueen, MacLeod, McSwane).

2014 I, Frankenstein movie released in Australia. Monster is Aaron Edward Eckhart born 1966 and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994. Greatgrand mother Martha Lawrence nee Gibson was born 1862 Galston, Gouchalland, Aryshire, Scotland. Also Huld, White and Hillhouse families from Portland Row, Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland,

Muscle & Fitness cover, Aaron Eckhart I, Frankenstein How the film’s star built His Monster Muscles, Abs of Steel with just one move, 13 rules for building muscle, The Best workouts for everybody part. January 2014.