May 3 – 1295 Robert de Brus, 5^th Lord of Annandale died. (or 31 March) Feudal lord, Justice and Constable of Scotland and England, a Regent of Scotland, and a leading competitor for the Scottish throne in 1290 to 1292 in the Great Cause. His grandson Robert the Bruce eventually became King of Scots.

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1557 John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland.

St Giles Cathedral window, Edinburgh. Knox preaching to the Lords of the Congregation.

1581 Convention of the lords at Dalkeith, RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, Lord High Treasurer, fell sick through a drink of beer he got in Dalkeith, and it was rumored that he had been poisoned.

1679 Coventers Whigs enthusiasts conspirators assault target of opportunity, ArchBishop Episcopal of Saint Andrews(TG51-235) Raid.

1679 – James Sharp, Scottish archbishop died (b. 1613)

1698 sometime in. Failed harvest, severe famine, 5 to 15 percent starved to death. The seven ill years was a period of national famine in Scotland in the 1690s, by four years of failed harvests (1695, 1696 and 1698–99). The period is named after the Biblical famine in Egypt predicted by Joseph ben Jacob in the Book of Genesis. The 1690s marked the lowest point of the Little Ice Age, of colder and wetter weather. This reduced the altitude at which crops could be grown and shortened the growing season by up to two months in extreme years, as it did in the 1690s. The massive eruptions of volcanoes at Hekla in Iceland (1693) and Serua (1693) and Aboina (1694) in Indonesia may also have polluted the atmosphere and filtered out significant amounts of sunlight. Wikipedia.

1721 sometime in, YYMA 31 The senior Robert Woodrow was a much respected church historian: among his writings was a two-volume History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution, published in 1721. Written from the Reformers’ viewpoint, it presents a comprehensive account of the troubled YYMA32 second half of the 17th century. Among the Impressive number of subscribers who made its publication possible were three Miller ministers from the immediate neighborhood: John of Neilston, Robert of Paisley and Robert of St. Quivox, all sons and nephews of ministers whose deprivations and imprisonment are detailed in the Sufferings. (Ancestor and uncles of Liam Summers.)

1750 – Robert Miller III ‘This Discourse was delivered in St. John’s Church, Charles Town, Whitsundy May 3d 1750.’ manuscript sermons, yellowed but still entirely legible, in the possession of Col. Francis Pickens Miller in 1970, was delivered before leaving Scotland. (ancestor of Jacob Summers). Another emigrant from the cleansing policy of the London government.

1768 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)

1811 The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Spain on the Portuguese border west of Ciudad Rodrigo, Coldstream Guards *
3^rd Guards, now the Scots Guards *
1^st Foot, the Royal Scots. 6^th Division: commanded by Major General Alexander Campbell, 5^th Division:

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commanded by Major General Sir William Erskine.

1^st Brigade: commanded by Colonel Hay: Light Division: commanded by Brigadier General Robert Crawford, 2^nd Brigade: commanded by Colonel George Drummond.

Hay Tartan.

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Captain Norman Ramsay, Royal Horse Artillery, Galloping his Troop 
Through the French Army to Safety at the Battle of Fuentes d’Onoro, 1811
Painting by George Bryant Campion. http://www.britishbattles.com /peninsula/fuentes.htm

Tytler’s History of Scotland Britannica. British relief repulsed.

1821 Bonaparte died. Tytler’s Britannica.

1860 – John Scott Haldane, born, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936).

1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, grandson of Scottish immigrants.

American military cemetery Flanders Field, Belgium. 368 souls (estimate 40% of Scots ancestry).   http://blackquillandink.com/?p=15894

1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Mitchell’s family on her father’s side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777,

cover. Historical novel of the old South,   with scots names like Hamilton.

1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur (scots descent) by U.S. President Harry Truman.

2013 Utah is ranked 2^nd 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 Cancer deaths per 100,000 population Utah #1. Utah #1 LOWEST p. 116 2013.

http://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/annualreport2013-r.pdf

2016 Indiana. Donald John Trump Senior (clan MacLeod) wins Indiana Republican Presidential primary, collecting all the pledged delegate votes. Within 72 hours, other remaining candidates suspend their races, making him the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party for 2016.

2017 Hi I’m Robyn – People. I’m from Scotland. I’m a daughter, sister, aunt and friend. I’m a Mormon. I am Scottish and come from a big family. I have five sisters and two brothers, and I am the second youngest.

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