MARCH 8 647 Felix Bishop Apostle to the East Angles.

1502 Golf was subsequently permitted in Scotland. Turnberry 9th Hole. Scots Stamps issued in 1994. The Trump Turnberry (since June 2014) is a golf resort on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in southwestern Scotland owned by United States President Donald Trump (clan MacLeod), under control to his sons Eric and Donald. Located in South Ayrshire. Wikipedia

1582 Mr Robert Montgomery, minister in Stirling, had made a simoniacal purchase of the Arch-bishopric of Glasgow from the earl of Lennox, for which Montgomery was to give him [Lennox] five hundred pounds sterling of yearly rent. Accordingly on the 8th of March 1582. Montgomery came to Glasgow, with a number of soldiers, and pulled the minister in the pulpit by the sleeve, saying, “Come down sirrah;” the minister replied. “He was placed there by the kirk, and would give place to none who intruded themselves without order.” Much confusion and bloodshed ensued in the town. The presbytery of Stirling suspended Montgomery, in which the general assembly supported them: Lennox obtained a commission from the king [James 6th] to try and bring the offenders to justice. Before that commission court met, the earls of Marr and Gowrie, the master of Oliphant, young Lochlevin, &c. carried the king [James 6th] to Ruthven castle, and there supplicated him [James 6th] to revoke his [James 6th] commission to Lennox, which he [James 6th] did: and the king [James 6th] ordered him [Lennox] to leave the country, which, after some delays, he [Lennox] also did, retiring to Berwick [England]. Afterwards two persons concerned in the affair at Ruthven, were charged to leave the realm upon pain of corporal punishment, because the council had adjudged that affair to be treason against the king [James 6th] and government. The earl of Gowrie was ordered to leave the kingdom, notwithstanding he had, at the command of the council, confessed that the fact at Ruthven was treason. [footnote 40] Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE 

LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. together with a succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution. as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings:—The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. By John Howie – 178181 [The italics is the complete title of the book, I could not resist.]

1599 never happened in Scotland.

1702 William II (of Scotland, William the Lion being the first) died aged 51 of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel. The disastrous investment of Darien was being felt throughout Scotland. William 2nd having helped ruin the venture. Beggaring many in Scotland resulting in ill feelings. Because Williams’ horse had stumbled into a mole’s burrow, many Jacobites toasted “the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.” Years later, Sir Winston Churchill, in the History of the English Speaking Peoples, put it more poetically when he said that the fall “opened the door to a troop of lurking foes”. William was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside his wife.

William III (of England William the Conqueror and William 2nd being 1st and 2nd,   also styled William II of Scotland, William the Lion was the 1st)   by Sir Godfrey Kneller, “King Billy“. Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regent of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1708 John Campbell born Edinburgh (1708–1775). Scottish author who contributed to George Sale’s Universal History. 1754 the University of Glasgow conferred on him the degree of LL.D.

The modern part of an universal history: from the earliest account of time … printed for S. Richardson, T. Osborne, C. Hitch, A. Millar, John Rivington, S. Crowder, P. Davey and B. Law, T. Longman, and C. Ware, 1760. [Millar’s clans included Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter]

1746 Prince Charlie, marching by Hawick (TG79-207)and Hagiehaugh, took post at the village of Brampton, in England.

GOLDILANDS NEAR
HAWICK FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH

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

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 Scotland’s 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field.

1780 James Island Charleston South Carolina. Between 3 and 8 March the 2nd Battalion of Fraser’s 71st Highland Regiment traveled from James Island where they joined the British Grenadiers, and arrived on 8 March, the regiment’s light infantry provided cover to the British crossing at Lighthouse Island. The Fraser’s 71st Highlander Regiment joined the Black Watch (42nd Regiment of Foot) in Glasgow in April 1776.,

1818 William Horatio Bernardo Cochrane, officer, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, b. 8 Mar 1818 m. Jacobina Frances Nicholson.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, (clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 46, 47. Never to cast any one out from your public meetings. Write and keep a regular history.

1833  Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clan Mack of Inverness,  Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 90. For it shall come to pass in that day, that every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power, by the administration of the Comforter, shed forth upon them for the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1917 Russia’s ‘February Revolution’ begins with riots in Petrograd over food rations and conduct of the war. German financial support sent to rioters. Britain’s ally in the west, Russia, will withdraw from the Great War, and the Czar’s family, descendants of clan Stewart will be killed.

1930 William Howard Taft died, (Scots) (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) 27th President 1909-13. The biography of Alfonso Taft, has details of the Taft family history from Scotland and America. Taft family tradition has Robert Taft Senior or First, born in Scotland about 1640, and fled during the ‘troublous times’. The life of Alphonso Taft.

1975 The UN (United Nations) creates International Women’s Day ‘to commemorate the historic struggle to improve women’s lives’, 4 and a half centuries after Mary Stewart was Queen of Scots.

1982 US President Ronald Reagan(clan Wilson) calls the Soviet Union ‘an evil empire’, initiating more resolve in US policy.

2012 68p postage stamp from the set of four issued by Great Britain on 8 March 2012 showing classic Locomotives of Scotland. www.stampboards.com

BR D40 No. 62276 –

Former Great North of Scotland Railway, Number 48 and LNER// BR class D40, 4-4-0 62276 “Andrew Bain” in July 1950. The GNSR used 4-4-0s for most of its traffic. “Andrew Bain” was built in 1921 by The North British Locomotive Company to the design of T E Heywood.