MARCH 29 –1306 Robert Bruce crowned King of Scots TG8-103. At Scone Perth Scotland.  The Ruthven clan were the historical sheriffs of Perth.

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 Bruce crowned King of Scots; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle. Wikipedia.

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd  Earl of Buchan (a cousin of the murdered John Comyn), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife –under age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. Ancestors of James IV.

1503 [YYMA  36 – Yours for Yesteryear the Millers of Ayrshire] Androw Myllar apparently had a bookstall, for the Lord High Treasurer’s accounts show payment to him of L10 (ten Scots pounds) for five books on March 29, 1503. “to Andro Millar for thir bukis undirwritten, viz., Decretum Magnum, Decretales Sextus cum Clementinis, Scotus super quatuor libris Sententiarum, Quartum Scoti, Opera Gersonis in tribus voluminibus.”

The first book on which Myllar’s name appears is an edition, printed [YYMA 36] in France probably at Rouen, in 1505 for Myllar,; the colophon of a volume, Joannes de Garlandia’s ‘Multorum vocabulum epuivocorum interpretatio,’ which the only copy known is in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris announces a colophon which states ‘The Book of certain ‘words Equivocal’….which Androw Myllar, a Scotsman, has been solicitous should be printed with admirable art and corrected with diligent care, both in orthographic style, according to the YYMA 37 ability available, and cleared from obscurity…’

Chepman & Myllar plaque in the auld Town of Edinburgh. Wikipedia.

1644  Battle of Cheriton

1806   Alexander Forrester Inglis, Cochrane born in 1758, and entered the Royal Navy. Cochrane rose to be admiral of the white, Member of Parliament, appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Bath 1806. Lost Battles of Fort McHenry and New Orleans in the North American Station. Died 1832.

1840 Paisley and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Samuel Mulliner (b. 1809), and Alexander Wright (b. 1804), Scots, arrive as missionaries. [Ensign Feb. 1987]. John Leishman of Johnstone, had migrated from Methodism to the Relief Church, a break-off from the “Kirk,” Scotland’s long-established Presbyterian Church. After eight years in the Relief Church, he became dissatisfied with its doctrine and began to study other religions, as he said, “hoping to find something more in accord … with the teachings of the Savior and His apostles.” Eventually, he abandoned the search and was “consequently in a forlorn state of mind” concerning his salvation. One night in late March of 1840, he went with some interested friends to hear Alexander and Samuel preach. As he arrived at the door of the meeting place, Samuel had begun the opening prayer, so he stopped and bowed his head respectfully. Before the prayer ended, although he was not even in the room, he became convinced that Samuel was “sent of God.”

In 1951, David O. McKay began his nineteen years of service as President of the Church; he had been Thomas Leishman’s junior missionary companion in Scotland during the 1890s.

1879 The Battle of Khambula. Zululand in South Africa. 90th  Perthshire Light Infantry: later 2nd  Battalion the Scottish Rifles; disbanded in 1966. The shock of the defeat and loss at Isandlwana on 22nd  January 1879 caused a catastrophic drop in morale among the British forces invading Zululand.

The 90th  Light Infantry on parade in India before leaving for the Zulu War. As soon as the Zulu approach was reported the troops assembled at their positions, 1,200 men of the 1st /13th  Light Infantry and the 90th  Regiment with 800 other irregular troops. Ammunition reserves were established along the rear of the lines. Wood ordered Major Hackett of the 90th  to take 2 companies to the edge of the hill and fire down into the Zulus assembling in the valley below. The soldiers of the 13th  and 90th  Regiments expended an average of 31 rounds per man.

1975 Tova Ann Choate (nee Leigh) born, Yale BA (Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize), MPhil MA PhD, LDS, ancestress of descendants of clans Stewart, Hunter, Meldrum, Cohrane, and Lockhart.)

)2008 Virginia Festival of the Book on March 29, 2008. Carolyn Hale Bruce was born in the Roanoke Valley, Virginia, where her 18th-century ancestors include those with the Scottish surnames Agnew, Cannaday (Kennedy), Cash, Chancellor, Davidson, Fraser, Hunter, Ingram, Smith, Thomas, and Thompson, among others. Charles Randolph Bruce was born and raised in the highlands in which his Scottish ancestors settled in the late 1700s. His interest in telling the heroic story of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (1306 -1329), was sparked by his family’s tradition that they descended from the great medieval warrior-king.

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2012 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? United Health Foundation America’s Health rankings 2012 Diabetes – Utah ranked 1st,[i]  http://www.americashealthrankings.org/UT-OK/2012

2013 The Ellis Island Exhibition for Tartan week New York City.  The Duke of York, James Stewart, was a Scot; later James 2nd of England, 7th of Scotland, generation of Jacobite political party.

[i] Diabetes by State  2016 Percentage of adults who reported being told by a health professional that they have diabetes (excludes prediabetes and gestational diabetes)  Utah #2  – 7%

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