MARCH 4 – 962 sometime in pestilences reported. Doctrine and Covenants 43;25. How oft have I called upon ye by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own

voice, and by the voice of pestilences of every kind, and would have saved ye with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!’

1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210) died.

1304 Robert VI the Bruce, 6^th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1243–1304) died, (dominus vallis Anandie), jure uxoris Earl of Carrick (1271-1292), Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak (Wretele et Hatfeud Regis), was a cross-border lord , and participant of the Second Barons’ War, Welsh Wars, and First War of Scottish Independence.

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1324 – David II (Dàibhidh Bruis) 1329–1371 born Dunfermline Palace, Fife

son of Robert I and Elizabeth de Burgh.

David II (Dàibhidh Bruis)

1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV, ancestors of Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland.

1559 On 4 March. One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. James Hamilton, 3^rd Earl of Arran (c1532–1609) met the Earl of Huntley, who seemed likely to join the Congregation, at Perth.

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1597 The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597. The witch hunts seem to have been most frequent in Fife, Perthshire, Glasgow, Stirlingshire and especially Aberdeenshire, all between 4 March and October. James 6^th published his book about witchcraft. Margaret Aitken, called The Great Witch of Balwearie. was likely arrested in Fife in April 1597. After having pled guity under torture, she offered to help the commission to point out witches in all parts of the country in exchange for her life. Wikipedia.

1599 never happened in Scotland. May went from the 3^rd month in 1599 (March April May) to the 5^th month in 1600 (January February March April May).

1665 King Charles II (clans Stewart, Drummond, Bruce) declared war on the Netherlands starting of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

1681 Charles II (clans Stewart, Drummond, Bruce) granted William Penn, a Quaker, a charter for a colony (Pennsylvania) in the Northern Station (Virginia).

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.

An illustration of how the pits would have worked.

1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823) born Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1773 sometime in, University of St Andrews Samuel Johnson visited the university, the university barely had 100 pupils. The poverty of Scotland also damaged St. Andrews, as few were able to patronize the university and its colleges -state support being improbable- and the income these ones got was scarce. Hence Samuel Johnson’s depiction of St. Andrews as a place of quiet decadence. Founded 1410 when James Kennedy was Bishop of St Andrews and founder of Scotland’s first university.

Kennedy         Motto: AVISE LA FIN.
[“Consider the end”].
Badge: oak

Chief: Archibald Angus Charles Kennedy, 8^th Marquess of Ailsa

Crest: A dolphon naiant Proper.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. Henry Knox previously commanded dragging the cannon during the winter snows from Fort Ticonderoga.

1790 Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising) (1722 – 4 March 1790), Jacobite heroine, was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of Angus MacDonald.

Overlooking a picturesque promontory on the Hebrides island’s west coast, the 5000-year-old standing stones of Calanais, including 13 gneiss pillars encircling a 15-foot-tall monolith, rival Stonehenge (David Lyons / Alamy)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/lifelists/The-Serenity-of-the-Outer-Hebrides.html#ixzz2PptOXZ5q

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/boswell.html?c=y&page=5

• During the Jacobite Risings, in June 1746, at the age of 24, Flora was living on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides when Bonnie Prince Charlie took refuge there after the Battle of Culloden. The prince’s companion, a Captain O’Neill, sought her assistance to help the prince escape capture. The island was controlled by the Hanoverian government using a local militia, but the MacDonalds were secretly sympathetic with the Jacobite cause.

After some hesitation, Flora promised to help Bonnie Prince Charley escape the island. At a later period she told the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II and commander-in-chief in Scotland, that she acted from charity and would have helped him also if he had been defeated and in distress.

The commander of the local militia was her stepfather, Hugh MacDonald. The commander gave her a pass to the mainland for herself, a manservant, an Irish spinning maid, Betty Burke, and a boat’s crew of six men. The prince was disguised as Betty Burke. He had left Benbecula on 27 June. After a first repulse at Waternish, Skye, the party landed at Kilbride, Skye, within easy access of Monkstadt, the seat of Sir Alexander MacDonald. The prince was hidden in rocks while Flora MacDonald found help for him in the neighbourhood. It was arranged that he be taken to Portree, Skye and from there taken to Glam on the island of Raasay.

Legend has it that she exhorted the Loyalist force at Cross Creek, North Carolina (present-day Fayetteville) that included her husband, Allan, as it headed off to its eventual defeat at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in February, 1776. He was captured after the battle and was held prisoner for two years until a prisoner exchange occurred in 1777. He was then sent to Fort Edward in Windsor, Nova Scotia where he took command of the 84^th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants), Second Battalion. After her husband was taken prisoner, Flora remained in hiding while the American Patriots ravaged her family plantation and took all her possessions. When her husband was released from prison in the fall of 1778, she reunited with him at Fort Edward. In 1779 Flora and her daughter, Fanny, returned to Scotland.

Portrait of Flora MacDonald (clan MacDonald) by Alan Ramsay (clan Ramsay)

1791 Vermont becomes a state. Scottish place names include (Wikipedia)-

Albany, Arlington, Bolton, Brookfield, Caledonia County, Castleton, Charleston, Clyde River, Milton, Newport, Salisbury, Springfield, Westfield, Weston

1803 John Lyon born Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. John Lyon, a gifted poet. Less than a month before he left Glasgow for Zion, the Millennial Star published an article titled, “THE HARP OF ZION.” It noted that “The Harp of Zion, a collection of poetry by Elder John Lyon has been nobly donated to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund, by its talented author, to help on the praiseworthy and God-like object of gathering the Lord’s poor to Zion in the latter days. . . . No Saint will be satisfied to be destitute of a copy.”66 Samuel W. Richards (British Mission President) ordered 5,100 copies. Unfortunately, because of anti-Mormon prejudice, The Harp of Zion did not sell as well as intended, but the contribution of Lyon was exemplary. HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE John’s 3^rd great grand-daughter Melodie Lyon Henderson is the choir director in the Arlington 1^st Ward, McLean Virginia Stake in 2012.

1836 siege at The Alamo Mission San Antonio, Texas Republic (February 23 – March 6, 1836) ends at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6 with list of Scots defenders. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston. (clan Ralston.)

drawings depicting Mission San Antonio de Valero, drawn in 1838 by Mary Maverick.

Colonel Travis called the troops of his garrison together either on the 3^rd or on March 4^th, 1836, and told them, “We must die. Our business is not to make a fruitless effort to save our lives, but to choose the manner of our death.” With that, taking example from “the 13 of the Fame” act done by Francisco Pizarro a couple of centuries before, Travis made a sweep with his sword and drew a line in the sand, asking all who would stay to cross it and those not willing not to cross it. This became the famous line in the sand. Everyone crossed.

1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

Edward VII 1d. of 1902.

1904 Lady Mary Theresa Montagu Douglas Scott born(4 March 1904 – 1 June 1984), 4^th daughter of Sir John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7^th Duke of Buccleuch & 9^th Duke of Queensberry and Lady Margaret Alice “Molly” Bridgeman’. 1923 – September 28 – John Scott, born, 9^th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9^th Duke of Buccleuch and 11^th Duke of Queensberry, KT Knight Order of the Thistle, VRD, Volunteer Reserve Decoration, JP, Justice of the Peace, DL Deputy Lieutenant, (28 September 1923 – 4 September 2007) was a Scottish Peer, politician and landowner, Lord Burghley married firstly in 1929, . 1924 June 24. Olympics, David Burghley and Douglas Lowe were athletes to run in the Olympics

1906 John McAllister Schofield Lieutenant General 1852 (7) 1831- March 4, 1906 U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the United States Army. American Civil War, Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville. Battle of Kinston. Self nominated for Medal of Honor, granted to self as Secretary of War. Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, named in his honor, were straffed during the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941,

1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile executive (b. 1854) died. Buick was born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. “Valve-in-Head” overhead valve engine. This method of engine construction produces a much more powerful engine than the rival side valve engine design which all other manufacturers used at the time. Overhead valve engines have been used by most car manufacturers but now only GM and Chrysler produce “push-rod engines” with any great regularity. Since overhead cam engines are design variants of OHV engines, it is fair to classify virtually all modern engines as derivatives of Buick’s invention.

1941 A daring British raid on the Lofoten Islands, Norway, captures a German Enigma machine and code books. On 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Poles initiated French and British military intelligence representatives into their Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment, including Zygalski sheets and the cryptologic bomb, and promised each delegation a Polish-reconstructed Enigma (It was called Lacida – this name contains the Scottish link, using mathematical theory and the perfecting of methods, tools and devices — all invented and developed beginning in 1932 by Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski. So what is the Scottish connection in this story? The name of the Polish copy of Enigma – Lacida, is a riddle made of the names of three people involved in the project: Langer, Ciężki, Danilewicz. Lt. Col. Karol Gwido Langer was the chief of the Polish General Staff’s Cipher Bureau and the leader of the three geniuses: Rejewski, Rożycki and Zyglaski.

Langer had been liberated by the Allies from German captivity after the war, moved to Britain. He was working and then retired in Kinross, in Scotland, where the Polish Army Signals camp was located. He died there in 1948 and was buried in a cemetery at Wellshill in Perth.

Cemetery at Wellshill in Perth – A large stone memorial beside the graves is dedicated to those Polish Forces who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom.  Eternal Glory to the Polish Soldiers who died in 1939-1945 for Our Freedom and Yours

http://polishscottishheritage.co.uk/

1946 – Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician born.

1940s Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive!

2012 What E’er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part: Avoid Wearing Masks That Hide Identity. Elder Quentin L Cook, OF THE QUORUM OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES speech at Brigham Young University–Idaho quoting President David O. McKay and the quote from Scotland.

Quentin L Cook http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/ces-devotionals/2012/01/what-e-er-thou-art-act-well-thy-part-avoid-wearing-masks-that-hide-identity?lang=eng&query=hyrum+smith+biography

2014 Classic Alice released with a skit from Macbeth.