MARCH 25  50 BC to 1599 AD Happy New Year Scotland.

Lady Day (25 March) English and Wales quarter days (Lady Day was the first day of the year in the British Empire (excluding Scotland after 1599) until 1752 (when the English calendar was harmonized with the Scottish practice of 1 January being New Year’s Day).  Virtually all of Europe had changed to January 1st in the 16th century, so it took England another century and a half to conform. Maybe with BREXIT, will the United Kingdom return to their earlier calendar? New Year’s day in Scotland from 1st century A.D. until 1599.

25 THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LORD TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

1005 – Malcolm II  ascended the throne. Kenneth III (Coinneach mac Dhuibh) killed in battle at Monzievaird in Strathearn by Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in 1005.

 www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland

Kenneth’s granddaughter, Gruoch daughter of Boite (Gruoch ingen Boite meic Cináeda) — Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth — was wife firstly of Gille Coemgáin, Mormaer of Moray, and secondly of King Macbeth; her son by Gille Coemgáin, Lulach (Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin), would briefly succeed Macbeth as King of Scotland. The meic Uilleim, descendants of William fitz Duncan by his first marriage, were probably descended from Kenneth; and the Clan Mac Aoidh or Clan Mackay claim descent from Kenneth III through Lulach’s daughter.

 Malcolm II  “the Destroyer” – fanciful image centuries after he flourished.

1010 Sir Quackly McDuck born sometime this year. Chief of fictional Clan McDuck.

 

In 1057 King Macbeth I of Scotland offered him a small treasure chest in exchange for his support in the ongoing war for the throne. Sir Quackly’s remains and the  fictional treasure chest were found by Scrooge McDuck in 1948.

1296 Patrick IV, Earl of March, with the Earl of Angus, Robert Bruce the elder, and Bruce, Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to the English King at Wark on March 25, 1296.

  • Brus or Bruce 1050 2Stewart2Kennedy 2Montgomery2Blair 2Cochrane2Miller 2Simmons2Choate Zoë ToaG

THE REMNANT OF 
WARK CASTLE FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH

PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I. The Border Country 1906.

1306 Robert the Bruce coronation as King of Scotland. His paternal ancestors were of Scoto-Norman heritage (originating in Brix, Manche, Normandy), and his maternal of Franco-Gaelic.

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1315 Siege of Carlisle First War of Scottish Independence

1333 – Battle of Dornock, William of Lochmaben, Sir Ralph Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy led an English force of 800 men into Dumfriesshire. William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale  and 50 Scottish defenders along with Sir Humphrey Boys and Sir Humphrey Jardine moved to intercept them. Second War of Scottish Independence

1462 Trinity Hospital  founded in 1460 by Mary of Gueldres in memory of her husband, King James II. Queen Mary was interred in the church, until her coffin was moved to Holyrood Abbey in 1848. Queen Mary issued a charter on 25 March 1462 detailing the constitution for Trinity College in which the provost was to hold Soutra church as a prebend but had to maintain three bedesmen in the Soutra hospital.  In 1459/60 the chancellorship was vacant allowing the dowager queen to supplicate Pope Pius II for the annexation of Soutra to her Trinity College foundation – the sanctioning bull was published on 23 October 1460

Trinity College picture 1848 before destruction.

Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1845. CHRONOLOGY Of THE Period.  A.D.

  1. A.D. Sometime this year. Henry VIII. quarrels with the Holy See; 1534. Is declared by Parliament, “the only supreme head of the Church of England upon earth.”
  2. A.D. Sometime this year. Society of the Jesuits instituted by Ignatius Loyola.
  3. A.D. Sometime this year. Dissolution of the Monasteries in England. The Bible in English appointed to be read in the Churches.
  4. A.D. Sometime this year. Reformation at Geneva. Calvin. Flourished.

1599 was the New Year’s day for 1599, but the year 1599 only went to December 31, then became 1600 on January 1, per a degree from James 6th.  Hence there never was a January 1, 1599 to March 24, in the year 1599.  The calendar did not change to the January 1 (New Year’s Day) for England and the American colonies until 1752.

1655 Battle of the Severn was fought in the Province of Maryland and was won by a Puritan force fighting under a Commonwealth flag who defeated a Royalist force fighting for Lord Baltimore.

1700 – Second Partition Treaty (also called the Treaty of London), under which the territories in Italy would pass to a son of the King of France, and the other Spanish territories would be inherited by a son of the Holy Roman Emperor.

1707  Treaty of Union sent by English Parliament to Scottish Parliament (TG60-93). Archibald 3rd marquis of Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas (created 1703)  tutors entered protest on the Duke’s behalf (age 13) heirs and successors, that the treaty should not prejudice rights and privileges belonging to duke of Hamilton

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

as chief of the house of Douglas, for loyalty, great and faithful service of leading the van of the army in the day of battle, carrying the crown of Scotland in procession, giving the 1st vote in all parliaments, councils, and conventions in Scotland. In accordance with these rights, the duke of Hamilton carries the crown when necessary in all state processions not because he is next heir to the crown, after present royal family, as was popularly but erroneously believed.  Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 48

Douglas 1036  2Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate –  Douglas 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

1st day of the  year 1707 in England.  Already 3 months into 1707 for Scotland.  See Tytler’s Britannica.

1752 The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). Auld style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March. Eleven days did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September 1752  was 14 September 1752 ), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar.  This applied to the American and Canadian colonies

1784 François-Joseph Fétis (25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian composer, critic and teacher.

 Fetis. Marie Stuart en Ecosse. 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.

1802 Amiens. Treaty of peace signed but not implemented. Tytler’s Britannica.

1803 –  Peace of Amiens Cochrane attended the University of Edinburgh.

1807 London. Slave trade abolished, received royal assent. Tytler’s Britannica.

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford and Four months after being expelled, on August 28, 1811, the 19-year-old Shelley eloped to Scotland with the 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook. His second wife Mary Jane Clairmont Godwin, was being educated in Scotland when Shelley first became acquainted with the Godwins family.

1860 – James Braid, died, Scottish surgeon (born 19 June 1795 at Ryelaw House, in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross, Scotland). the “Father of Modern Hypnotism”

1984 Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. pop and R’n’B, ‘McPheever’ was popularized on American Idol,  a Fox television network series, auditioning singers began circa 2002.

2007 Kidnapped, Sir Walter Scott’s novel, airing on PBS, 2005 BBC. Allan Breck Stewart and his brothers grew up under the care of his relative, James Stewart (known as “James of the Glen”) in Appin, Scotland. Breck enlisted in the British Army of George II in 1745, just prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Breck fought at the Battle of Prestonpans, but he deserted to the Highland Jacobites.  Breck subsequently fought for the Jacobites during the campaign of the ‘Forty-Five and at the Battle of Culloden. After the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden, Stewart fled to France, accompanying his commander and Clan Captain, Colonel Charles Stewart of Ardshiel.

 

  

The hero of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, is fifteen-year-old Davie Balfour.  Swashbuckling highlander, Alan Breck Stewart, Davie eludes his captors and joins Breck on a wild flight through the Scottish highlands, pursued by notoriously ruthless English bounty hunters and bribers.

2011

Scrooge  diving into money. (fictional clan McDuck).

2011 Utah is ranked 2nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing? Recent Births to Unmarried Women 2011. Utah ranked 1st  (best or lowest rate).  http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-21.pdf[i]

[i] https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-21.pdf

Table 1.

Recent Births to Unmarried Women Aged 15 to 50, by State: 2011

For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/acs/www

State  U.S. total. . 1,467,435. 1 Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability . A margin of error is a measure of an estimate’s variability . The larger the margin of error is in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate . This number when added to or subtracted from the estimate forms the 90 percent confidence interval .

Source: U .S . Census Bureau, 2011 American Community Survey .

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