MARCH 7 – 203 Perpetua, Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 feast day.

1424 Anchibald Douglas 4^th Earl, and Buchan sailed into La Rochelle with an estimated 6500 men.

• 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

1502 Golf was subsequently permitted.

Royal Troon, 35 P Gold stamp series

1547 Nicholas reported to Odet de Selve (a French diplomat 1504-1563) the taking off Yarmouth by force-of-arms of the Great Lion, the Lionesse, and the Marie Galante on 7 March 1547 (Scottish Sailing ships)

1588 Sir William Douglas, 9^th earl of Angus, won suit by James 6^th who claimed the earldom. William was great grandson of the 5^th Earl Angus. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 48.

1599 never happened in Scotland. After December 31, 1599, The calendar jumped to 1600, skipping January and February 1599 and 3 weeks of March.

1671 – Robert Roy MacGregor, born, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734).

A Dalziel Brothers engraving. Rob Roy (left) gives a mysterious warning to Francis Osbaldistone (right) in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, promising to tell him more if he meets him later on. This leads to Francis being pulled in with the rebels. Frontispiece to an 1886 edition of the novel by Sir Walter Scott. Wikipedia.

1714 War of the Spanish Succession. Treaty of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Philip is partially recognized as King of Spain, but renounces any claim to the throne of France. Spain and Britain sign the Asiento. Ended hostilities between France and Austria at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Treaty was negotiated by Marshal of France, Claude Louis Hector de Villars and the Austrian prince, Prince Eugene of Savoy. The next year is the English Scottish succession, France supports Jacobite challenge to Hanover.

Europe after the treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden. Note Poland and Ottoman. Wikipedia.

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 is near Banchory, 18 miles west of Aberdeen, where the Feugh River meets the River Dee. The River Dee forms part of the boundary between Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.

1754 sometime in Seven Years War (French and Indian War).

1784 Malcolm Flemyng (clan Fleming) died in Lincoln.

The Nature of the Nervous Fluid or Animal Spirits Demonstrated etc. by Malcolm Flemyng, M.d. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand MDCCLI, price One Shilling.) (Millar was clan Stewart, Lockhart and Hunter)

1804 The Royal Horticultural Society, dedicated to advancing good gardening, is founded by Joseph Wedgewood.

Solenostemon‘Royal Scot’ (v)

‘Royal Scot’ is a bushy plant to 45cm with slender-pointed, triangular-ovate, deeply toothed leaves which are bright crimson with a darker central marking and golden-yellow margin.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, (clans Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 45. And there shall be earthquakes also in divers places, and many desolations; yet men will harden their hearts against me, and they will take up the sword, one against another, and they will kill one another. And they shall see signs and wonders, for they shall be shown forth in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath. And they shall behold blood, and fire, and vapors of smoke. And before the day of the Lord shall come, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon be turned into blood, and the stars fall from heaven.

Kirtland Temple (finished 1836). Wikipedia.

1841 James Ramsey Murray March 7, 1841 -1905 Thanks for the Sabbath School 278

James R. Murray [n.d.]. Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress.

1864 Nathaniel Spens, who in 1864 immigrated from Scotland to Zion with his family, was an accomplished painter. HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

Spens Crest: A hart’s head erased Proper. Motto: SI DEUS QUIS CONTRA.
[from Latin: “If God is for us, who is against us”]. Chief: Patrick Spens, 4^th Baron Spens

1872 William Wines Phelps (b 17 Feb. 1792 Hannover, Morris, New Jersey –died 7 mar 1872 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah) wrote the words to “Praise to the Man” as a tribute to Joseph Smith (descendant of Mack of Inverness 17^th century, and Malcolm Canmore 11^th Century), using the melody of a Scottish folk song, Scotland the Brave. The song is used to represent Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

Scotland the Brave is also the authorized pipe band march of The British Columbia Dragoons of the Canadian Forces, and is played during the Pass in Review at Friday parades at The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute. In 2006 it was adopted as the regimental quick march of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In the 1982, 1986, and in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the Scottish national team used it as its anthem prior to using “Flower of Scotland”.

1929 Sir Alexander Fleming, Ayrshire, Scotland, (clan Fleming) identified the mould as being from the Penicillium genus of fungi, and, after some months of calling it “mould juice”, named the substance it released penicillin. It affected bacteria such as staphylococci and many other Gram-positive pathogens that cause scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis and diphtheria, and Gram-negative gonorrhoea.

Core structure of penicillin. Wikipedia.

Penicillium mold on mandarin oranges.

1936 Hitler marches German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. Great Britain and Ireland Casualties (1939 – 1945): Soldiers (Allied) – 298,950 Killed, Civilians – 64,000 Killed. Scots were about 8% of the total.

1945 US forces capture the bridge at Remagen and cross the Rhine, overcoming Germany’s last natural line of defense in the east.

1986 Highlander. Filmed in Scotland at Eilean Donan Castle, which is on the shore of Loch Duich, a sea loch near Kyle of Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye.

Eilean Donan Castle

Poster Highlander.

2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. The 1706 Treaty of Union and the Acts of Union that ratified the Treaty, created a new Parliament of Great Britain, to replace the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. This new parliament was, in effect, the continuation of the Parliament of England with the addition of 45 MPs and 16 Peers to represent Scotland.