November 12 – 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus. These royal lines are interlinked around Europe and eventually wind up in England and Scotland.

1094 Duncan II died, (Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim), son of Malcolm and his first wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, invaded at the head of an army of Anglo-Normans and Northumbrians, aided by his half-brother Edmund and his father-in-law Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. Donald III (Dòmhnall mac Dhonnchaidh) (Domnall mac Donnchada) Donalbain in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth represents Donald III.

Duncan II

1593 – Decree of 12 November 1593 came out, by which Catholics were ordered to give up their faith or leave the country, Huntly refused to obey. George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly.

1642 Battle of Brentford.

1690 between the dearths of 1674 and 1695 to 1701. Famine, disease, hundreds died, tens of thousands leave.

Runrig farming outside the town of Haddington, East Lothian c. 1690. The Parliament of Scotland of 1695 enacted proposals that might help the desperate economic situation. Three acts of parliament passed in 1695 allowed the consolidation of runrig nand the division of common land, which would be the basis of the agricultural improvements of the eighteenth century that would make Scottish farming highly productive.[25] These changes would ensure that people could be fed in extreme conditions, even with the population growth. [which didn’t happen – England emties the Highlands and breaks Scotlands economy from 1745 to 1820.] Wikipedia.

1715 – Battle of Preston. Duke of Argyle marched from Stirling towards Dunblane in Scotland, [TG70-347] Argyle had been the ardent opponent of Marlborough, now Captain- General, and could not hope that his measures would be favourably judged by a political and personal enemy. [TG72-413]

1715 – General Willis, in Lancashire commenced his operations upon the town of Preston by a double attack, against four barriers, manned by Jacobites, situated a little below the church, and was supported by the gentlemen volunteers, who mustered in the churchyard. The defense was commanded by Brigadier MacIntosh. The second was formed at the end of a lane, which was defended by Lord Charles Murray; the third was called the Windmill barricade-it was held out by the Laird of MacIntosh, chief of the name; [TG71-377] the fourth barricade was drawn across the street leading towards Liverpool, and was stoutly manned by Hunter, the Northumbrian freebooter, and his moss-troopers. Preston’s regiment (well known as the auld Cameronian, and forming part of Willis’s attacking force). Captains Hunter and Douglas [TG71-378] likewise made a desperate defense at the barrier intrusted to them. Jacobites torch Preston.

1715 – Fraser’s clan chief Simon, Lord Lovat, withdrew from the cause of the Chevalier de St George to support Hanover. [TG72-398]

1742 Thomas Cadell (publisher) (1742–1802), English bookseller born. In March of 1758, Cadell’s father apprenticed him to the successful London bookseller and publisher Andrew Millar VI (1707-8 jun 1768). [clan Cochrane, Meldrum, Stewart, Lockhart] Cadell became Millar’s partner in April of 1765 and took over the business upon Millar’s death in 1767. Cadell continued the firm; he was an original member of the booksellers monthly dining club at the Shakespeare Tavern on Wych Street, Strand [London], an alderman of Walbrook Ward, and Master of the Stationers’ Company, endowing its hall with a stained glass window and his portrait by Sir William Beechey. Later, Cadell took William Strahan as a partner and their sons carried on after them into the 19th century with Blackstone and Gibbon among their authors. (The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon netted L60,000.) The firm’s alacrity was evidenced when, within hours after Johnson’s death on 13 December 1784, the two partners, representing others in [66 YYMA] the trade as well, waited on Sir John Hawkins with an offer for a biography and an edition of Johnson’s works, and on the day following the funeral advertised it as forthcoming. Eventually Boswell’s Life of Johnson became the definitive biography of biographies.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 70. He who is appointed, the same is worthy of his hire

1966 Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) Buzz Aldrin’s space walk, and Docking. [Munro clan]

Solar eclipse as seen from Gemini 12 of November 12, 1966.

1971 San Francisco Opera, First US staged performance Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera, (tragedia lirica), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei’s translation of Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 play Maria Stuart. The libretto adds the love story of Mary Stuart and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, which had no basis in fact, the first staged performances of the “Three Queens” operas (Anna Bolena and Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) together in the US took place in 1972 at the New York City Opera, all three operas staged by Tito Capobianco. Presentations of the trio earned some degree of fame for American soprano Beverly Sills who took the starring role in each. Wikipedia.

1999 Ratcatcher filmed in Glasgow, 1973.

Poster.

2004 Finding Neverland movie released United States. about playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, (born Kirriemuir, Angus, 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) (clan Ogilvy) and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster.

The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards (77th academy awards), including Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Actor for Johnny Depp’s (with Scottish brogue) portrayal of J. M. Barrie, and won one for Jan A. P. Kaczmarek’s musical score. The mother in law character was performed by Julie Frances Christie, born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the elder child of Rosemary (née Ramsden), a painter, and Francis “Frank” St. John Christie. Julie is married to Duncan Campbell who was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perth and Kinross in Scotland. Sort of a seven connections to Scotland story.

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