November 13  1093 Battle of Alnwick. While besieging Alnwick Malcolm III (Canmore), last of the Celtic kings, was killed by knights led by Robert de Mowbray and his army fled.

Malcolm III Canmore” – “Great Chief’’

1295 “The Model Parliament”. Edward I (ancestor of James 2nd Stewart King of Scots, and descendant of Malcolm King of Scots) summoned the parliament on 13 November 1295. In calling the parliament, Edward proclaimed in his writ of summons, “what touches all, should be approved of all, and it is also clear that common dangers should be met by measures agreed upon in common.” At the time, Parliament’s legislative authority was limited and its primary role was to levy taxes. Edward’s paramount goal in summoning the parliament was to raise funds for his wars, specifically planned campaigns against the French and the Scots for the upcoming year,

1516 Sometime in November.   James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran married Janet Bethune of Easter Wemyss, daughter of Sir David Bethune of Creich , and widow of Sir Robert Livingstone of Easter Wemyss, who had been killed in the Battle of Flodden Field. Children of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran and his mistress Beatrix Drummond, daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond and his wife Lady Elizabeth Lindsay :Margaret Hamilton, married Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Ochiltree.

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1570 sometime in November. University Registrar of the College of St. Andrews, records James Crichton (age 9, born 1561) matriculated at St Salvadore’s College. Surnamed Admirable Crichton. James’ father was Lord Advocate to Mary, Queen of Scots and King James 6th Stewart. James’ mother was Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Sir James Stewart of Beath. House of Avandale or Evandale, and Murdoch, Duke of Albany (ancestor of Andrew Stewart 2nd Lord Ochiltree), uncle to James 1st Stewart King of Scots. Tytler Life of James Crichton.

The House of Stewart Stamps. philatelynews.com/2010/gb/the-house-of-stewart/    1st class: James I (1406-37), James II (1437-60) & James III (1460-88)
62p* James IV (1488-1513) & James V (1513-42)
81p* Mary (1542-1567) & James VI (1567-1625)

1642 Battle of Turnham Green

 Turnham Green shown somewhere within Greater London

 

1666 Sir James Turner seized. In 1664, the Conventicle Act passed which banned non-conformists to meet in conventicles, places of worship not of the established Episcopacy. (Basically a ban on the Presbytery.) The prisons were crowded with offenders. Wherever people had forsken their churches, troops were quartered in homes throughout the country. These ‘legalized banditti’ were commanded by Sir James Turner, who received lists from clergy of those who absented themselves from the churches, or were supposed to frequent conventicles. Without proof, or trial, Turner exacted fines, and quartered the soldiers until paid. Turner’s orders were authorized by Lauderdale and archbishop Sharpe.   Turner was spared, and the insurgents renewed the covenant, asking for reinstatement of their former ministers. The Government sent General Dalziel with King’s troops, and met the Covenanters at Rullion Green. The King’s troops charged and the Covenanters fell and fled.   40 were killed and 130 captured as prisoners. Archbishop Sharpe ordered vengeance, hanging 10 on one gibbet in Edinburgh, and 35 more before their homes throughout the country, after torture, and mutilating their limbs, which were also stuck up. All were offered their lives, IF they renounced the covenant, which they refused. The executions were proceeding without mercy when King Charles 2nd wrote a letter to the privy council, in which he ordered that prisoners who simply promised to obey laws in the future should be set at liberty, and the incorrigible be sent to the plantations (i.e. American colonies). The letter was brought to the council by Burnet, archbishop of Glasgow, but kept back for time by him and Archbishop Sharpe. This delay permitted torture to extort confessions. By this criminal delay of the king’s letter, Hugh Mackail, a young preacher, was tortured, and executed. His last words were ‘Farewell sun, moon and stars, farewell world and time! Farewell weak frail body! Welcome eternity! Welcome angels and saints! Welcome Saviour of the world! And welcome God the judge of all!’ Tytler’s History of Scotland from Britannica 206.   A century and a quarter later, the memory of these actions, were included in provisions in the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the Plantations (colonies of the United States of America).

1715 battle of sheriffmuir Glengarry, Scotland, Earl of Mar started from the ranks, waved his bonnet around his head, exclaiming, ” Revenge, revenge! to-day for revenge, and to-morrow for mourning!” [TG70-357] [TG71-364]. Archibald, 3rd Marquis of Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas from 1703, volunteered in the battle. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 48

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Battle of Sheriffmuir. Duke of Argyle, commander in chief of royal forces in Scotland, had 4,000 troops in battle. Earl of Mar had Earl of Seaforth, and General Gordon.   Argyle’s stopped Mar’s progress, and delay was defeat. The Jacobites lost the Earl of Strathmore and the chief of Clan Ranald. The Hanoverians lost the Earl of Forfar. Tytler’s Britannica.

1715 – Preston besieged trapping Highland army.

1838 Joseph F. Smith born to Hyrum and Mary Smith (nee Fielding) Far West, Missouri. Joseph was too young to fully realize what his mother and the other Saints were suffering at the hands of the Missouri mobs who were bent on exterminating the Mormons; but when he was six years auld and living in Nauvoo, he came to understand the reality of the struggle and persecution: his father, Hyrum, and Uncle Joseph were killed by an angry mob in Carthage Jail. At age 7 he drove a yoke of oxen from Montrose, Iowa, to Winter Quarters, Nebraska Territory. http://www.lds.org/manual/the-presidents-of-the-church-teachers-manual/lesson-20-josephf-smith-a-voice-of-courage?lang=eng. Descendant of Mack of Inverness Scotland, and Malcolm King of Scots.

The jailhouse in the town of Carthage, Illinois. www.lds.org/scriptures/history-photos/

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth. Robert’s father Thomas, employed his engineering skills in designing more than 30 of Scotland’s lighthouses.  Robert’s cousin David designed Bass Rock lighthouse, which figured in Robert’s novel Catronia.  Lighthouse building became a Stevenson forte with Robert’s grandfather (also Robert), who designed, among others, Bell Rock lighthouse, which Walter Scott visited with Robert Stevenson on his Northern lights tour (1814).  The connection between Scott and the Stevensons clearly influenced Robert Louis’ interests.  One other connection in terms of novels, is that his “Kidnapped” was in part inspired by his reading of Scott’s “Rob Roy’’.

Alexander Stoddart’s ‘Kidnapped’ statue at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, depicting David Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart (historical figure, clan Stewart) at their final parting on Corstorphine Hill (unveiled 2004)

Stevenson’s travels took him not only to Europe, but to America, in pursuit of a love interest (wife Fanny Osbourne), and ultimately to Samoa, where he died.  Stevenson was sickly most of his life, suffering from tuberculosis, and dying at the young age of 44.

Sketch of the cruise of the Brig Covenant and the probable course of David Balfour’s Wanderings.

1895 Flag of Alabama adopted. The flag of Scotland features St Andrew’s saltire cross.

Crimson cross of St. Andrew in a field of white

Flag of the Governor since 1939

 

1957 All Mine to Give movie released. British The Day They Gave Babies Away by Dale Eunson and his wife Katherine (nee Albert) Eunson, which first appeared in the December 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan. Dale was the son of Robbie, the 12 year old son of the immigrants.

Poster. In 1856, Robert and Mamie Eunson (Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns) are Scots who have immigrated to the United States of America, at the invitation of Mamie’s uncle. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, nearly destitute. Wisconsin was birth state of the Republican party, founded in nearby Ripon also in 1856. The Eunsons are assisted by the neighbors in rebuilding their Uncle’s burned house, and Robert, the father, takes to logging trees. The childrens’ names are Scottish, James, Kirk, Annabelle, Elizabeth and Jane. Diptheria kills the father. As typhoid kills the mother, she instructs her son Robbie to find homes for his everyone. This is just after the Civil War. On Christmas day, fulfilling Mum’s request, the oldest boy age 12, goes among the neighbors and hands out his sisters and brothers.

Alan Hale MacKahan (Alan Hale Junior famous as the Skipper in TV’s Gilligans Island 1964 to 1967) is the father character of Eunson’s boss logger. Patty McCormack (stage name for Patricia Ellen Russo) is sister Annnabelle.

1966 1966 Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) Buzz Aldrin’s 2nd space swim, and UnDocking.

Gemini 12 tethered stationkeeping. (NASA)

1984 Donald Duck’s 50th Birthday is the 1984 television broadcast on The Magical World of Disney.

card (clan McDuck)

1991 Report issued on the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 when the wreckage fell on the town of Lockerbie in the Dumfries and Galloway region of south-western Scotland. ‘After a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, during which 15,000 witness statements were taken, indictments for murder were issued on 13 November 1991 against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta. UN sanctions against Libya and protracted negotiations with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi secured the handover of the accused on 5 April 1999 to Scottish police at Camp Zeist, Netherlands, having been chosen as a neutral venue for their trial. ‘Known as the Lockerbie bombing and the Lockerbie air disaster in the UK, it was described by Scotland’s Lord Advocate as the UK’s largest criminal inquiry led by the smallest police force in Britain, Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.

Dumfries and Galloway location

2009 November 13 North American release of Pirate Radio movie. The “North Sea” scenes were shot off the coast of Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland.

 

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