March 5 1323 David Bruce 2nd king of Scots, born, at Dunfermline, succeeds as King, age 5. Anderson’s Scots History v.2/p.25-27.

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1324 – King David II Stewart of Scotland (d. 1371) born.

1642 the Long Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance. John Lisle elected Member of Parliament for Winchester in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Winchester for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He was master of St Cross Hospital, Winchester from 1644 to 1649.

1599 never happened in Scotland. April went from the 2nd   month in 1599 to the 4th month in 1600.

  1. Mary Queen of England and Scots, Stewart, daughter of James 7th was tall (5 foot 11 inches; 180 cm) and apparently fit; she would regularly walk between her palaces at Whitehall and Kensington. In late 1694, however, she contracted smallpox. She sent away anyone who had not previously had the disease, to prevent the spread of infection. Small pox is relatively quick in symptoms, but having prolonged, and lingered, she was bled, as was the custom, to remove humors, and died. During a cold winter, in which the Thames froze, her embalmed body lay in state in Banqueting House, Whitehall. On 5 March, she was buried at Westminster Abbey. Her funeral service was the first of any royal attended by all the members of both Houses of Parliament.

Mary Stewart in 1676, the year before her marriage.

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. The Warren Field site was first discovered as unusual crop marks spotted from the air by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).

Dave Cowley, aerial survey projects manager at RCAHMS, said: “We have been taking photographs of the Scottish landscape for nearly 40 years, recording thousands of archaeological sites that would never have been detected from the ground.

“Warren Field stands out as something special, however. It is remarkable to think that our aerial survey may have helped to find the place where time itself was invented.

1770 Boston. British troops shoot three in the ‘Boston Massacre’ – a propaganda coup for the colonials. BBC

1771 Henry Knox was a witness to the Boston massacre. Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was a military officer and also served as the first United States Secretary of War. The parents of Henry Knox (William Knox and Mary (née Campbell))were Scots. In 1771 he opened his own bookshop, the London Book Store, in Boston “opposite William’s Court in Cornhill.

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 1771 advertisement for Knox’s shop.

1773 Rev. Mr. Philip Francis died (Born 1708). Son of Dr. John Francis, rector of St. Mary’s, Dublin and dean of Lismore. Trinity College, Dublin, taking the degree of B.A. in 1728. Author for Andrew Miller, bookseller in the Strand.

 A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace with the Original Text and Critical Notes etc. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand. MDCCLIII.

1791 Sometime in March.

When chapman billies leave the street,

And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet;

As market days are wearing late,

And folk begin to tak the gate,

While we sit bousing at the nappy,

An’ getting fou and unco happy,

We think na on the lang Scots miles,

The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,

That lie between us and our hame,

Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,

Gathering her brows like gathering storm,

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

(Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses,
 For honest men and bonnie lasses).

She prophesied that late or soon,
Thou wad be found, deep drown’d in Doon,

Or catch’d wi’ warlocks in the mirk,
By Alloway’s auld, haunted kirk.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,

How mony lengthen’d, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!

Wi’ tippenny, we fear nae evil;
Wi’ usquabae, we’ll face the devil!

Weel done, Cutty-sark! And in an instant all was dark:

Now, wha this tale o’ truth shall read,
Ilk man and mother’s son, take heed:

Whene’er to Drink ye are inclin’d,
Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind,

Think ye may buy the joys o’er dear;
Remember Tam o’ Shanter’s mare

  • Notes; Nannie, whose shirt (cutty-sark) is too small for her. Kirk is church, chapman itinerant dealer or hawker, drouthy is thirst, nappy is ale, mosses is wetland, Ayr United F.C. their nickname “the honest men’, Ayr is town on River Ayr in Ayr Scots county, River Doon in Ayr, Brig O’ Doon is bridge over river Doon, greet is tears, “John Barleycorn” is an English folksong, ‘usquabae’ is pronounced whiskey (water of life).

Ayr River. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.322.

1811 Battle of Barossa, Cadiz, Spain. Peninsular War. Coldstream Guards *
3rd Guards, the Scots Guards * Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan was a Scottish Landowner and keen cricket player. While in France after the French Revolution Graham’s wife died. A French mob treated his wife’s coffin with considerable disrespect. Enraged, Graham at the age of 45 raised a regiment at his own expense in his home county of Perthshire, the 90th Foot, becoming its colonel. The 90th became a light infantry regiment and was known as the “Perthshire Grey Breeks” from the colour of the soldier’s trousers. Prevented from further promotion by the Duke of York’s regulations any earlier, Graham became a Major General at the specific dying wish of Sir John Moore. Graham subsequently became Wellington’s second in command and a peer as Lord Lyndoch. The French regiments i 45th of the Line, lost its eagle to the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo.

The Battle of Barossa

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)

 Alamo Mission is known as the “Shrine of Texas Liberty

1936 The Spitfire, the iconic British fighter of World War Two, makes its maiden flight at Eastleigh Aerodrome. BBC. Loch Doon Spitfire goes on display in Dumfries. The plane was salvaged from the bottom of Loch Doon in Ayrshire in 1982 after a four-year search by divers.

Spitfire in flight © Crown copyright

Crew 1 (pilot) Top speed 405 mph (652 km/h) Range 980 miles (1,577 km) Weapons  2 x 0.50 inch (12.7mm) Browning machine guns, up to 1,000 lb (454 kg) of bombs. [John Moses Browning’s (born January 23, 1855 Ogden, Utah Territory, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints colony) guns were credited with  412 victories gained by British aircraft (mainly Spitfires). (American Rifleman). The .50-cal. Browning Machine Gun—The Gun That Won The War. by Barrett Tillman – Thursday, February 23, 2017

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2017/2/23/the-50-cal-browning-machine-gun-the-gun-that-won-the-war/

John Moses Browning (clans Hamilton- Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Allison, Ellyson –  Windyedge, Lanark) served a two-year mission in Georgia (many Scots place names)  for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  (6th cousin 2 times removed Irvan Choate.)

1946 Winston Churchill (clan Montgomery) makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Fulton, Missouri, warning of the Soviet  threat.

 BBC Winston Churchill

1957 William Cameron Menzies died, (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an American film production designer (a job title he invented)[1] and art director. The Scots pronounced the name ‘Min-gis’, rather than ‘min-zees’ as on TCM. Menzies (pronounced Mingus or Mingis) was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Scots immigrant parents, Charles A. and Helen originally from Aberfeldy, Scotland. He studied at Yale and the University of Edinburgh, and after serving in the US Army during World War I he attended the Art Students League of New York. (clans Cameron and Menzies [Min-gis]). Academy Awards for Best Art Direction or Production designer. Bulldog Drummond, Foreign Correspondent, Gone With the Wind, The Pride of the Yankees, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

 Art board for Gone with the Wind, burning of Atlanta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4595228.stm

why is Sir Menzies Campbell’s first name pronounced Mingis? Blame the “yogh”, a letter in old English and Scots (see image, right) which has no exact equivalent today.  Yogh is shaped similarly to the number three (3).   Pronounced “yog”, it used to be written a bit like the old copperplate-style “z” with a tail, which helps explain the discrepancy between the spelling of Menzies and the pronunciation.

The rise of printing in the 16th Century coincided with the decline of the yogh, and so it tended to be rendered in print as a “z”, and pronounced as such.

Menzies simply transposes the “z” for a “g” (MinGis) when speaking the name. “You’ve got the upper ‘y’ sound from the back of the mouth and the ‘n’ sound going to meet it,” says Chris Robinson, director of the Scottish Language Dictionaries. “There’s a sort of assimilation of the two sounds.”

2010 David Marcus Olaf Choate born, many great grand son of John Lisle.