October 11 1066 Normans in Angleterre.

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1297 after Battle of Stirling Bridge Letter from William Wallace. Wallace and Moray to the mayors of Lubeck and Hamburg saying that “The Kingdom of Scotland has, by God’s Grace, recovered by battle from the power of the English” John de Warenne, 6^th Earl of Surrey English commander

Location of  Scotland  (orange)

1489 John Drummond, 1^st Lord Drummond (died 1519) routes the Earl of Lennox, in revolt against the king   encamped at Gartalunane, on the south bank of the Forth, in the parish of Aberfoyle, but during the darkness of the night of 11 Oct. was surprised and utterly routed by Drummond (Buchanan, Rer. Scotic. Hist. lib. xiii. c. v.).

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Aberfoyle is in the upper left quadrant in Stirling, on the Avon Dhu which drains east to Loch Ard, which drains east to the River Forth, into the Firth of Forth.

1511 Ship “Great Michael” launched at Newhaven, for King James 4^th Stewart. Weighed 1,000 tons, was 240 feet (73 m) in length, was manned by 1,000 seamen and 120 gunners and was then the largest ship in Europe (according to the chronicler Lindsay of Pitscottie). She had Sir Andrew Wood as quartermaster and Robert Barton as skipper.

A model of Michael in the Royal Museum, in Newhaven, Edinburgh, Scotland.

New Haven is the namesake of the city founded on Long Island Sound in 1638 .

1568 English Commissioners to the Queen Elizabeth at York. Abstract shown to Queen’s Commissioners by the Scots.

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1643 Battle of Winceby.

1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.

The Soldier’s Catechism: rules, regulations and drill procedures of the New Model Army.

1698 First Partition Treaty, Treaty of Den Haag (also known as the Treaty of The Hague or the First Partition Treaty) William II and Louis XIV agreed to the division of the Spanish Empire: Duke Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria would obtain Spain, while France and the Holy Roman Emperor would divide the remaining territories between them, Louis, le Grand Dauphin, would get Naples, Sicily, and Tuscany and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI would get Low Countries. Joseph Ferdinand died of smallpox.

1724 1707 William Armstrong 1699 Langholm Dumfries, Scotland or born 20 JUL 1707  Andrew, Canonbie, Dumfries, Scotland, died About 1753  Catawba Creek, Augusta, Virginia married 11 OCT 1724 Kirk Andrew, Carlisle, Cumberland, Kirkandrews-on-Esk, Cumbria, England. Susanna Blythe born About 1711  had Lancelot Armstrong 1740-1802 (immigrant to America).

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1746 Battle of Roucoux, War of the Austrian Succession or King George’s War. River Meuse in Flanders (Belgium). Royal Scots Greys (2nd), During the Jacobite rebellion, which had brought almost all the British regiments back to Britain, Marshall Saxe continued with his invasion of Flanders, capturing Brussels, Antwerp, Namur and Charleroi.

St. Mihiel France on the Meuse river upriver from Flanders. American Military Cemetery with 4,153 graves, probably 40% with Scots ancestry (based on 40% of US Presidents have Scots ancestry).

(http://blackquillandink.com/?p=15894)

1760 Lord George Murray died(4 October 1694 – 11 October 1760).

1776 – American Independence War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.

Royal Savage is shown run aground and burning, while British ships fire on her (watercolor by unknown artist, ca. 1925)

1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.

1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.

1811 – Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).

1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersbur, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.

The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison, depicting the scene of action at Burnside’s Bridge. The painting is not to scale and does not do the steep bluff overlooking the bridge and river bed terrain justice, wherein 500 or so Confederates held off 10 to 20 times as many Yankees for most of the day, by sharpshooting against attempts to cross the ravine and bridge in the open.

1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.

1930 R. Lavell Edwards born. Coach BYU football national champion NCAA circa 1984. Scottish ancestry.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.

1957 – Space Race begins. Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists calculate Sputnik I’s booster rocket’s orbit. Scots on the moon by 1969.

1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).

1961 – Jon Steven Young, American football player, born. BYU, 49ers, Most Valuable Player NFL 1992 and 1994, Super Bowl XXIX, Pro Bowl 1992-1998, All American 1983, 3^rd great grandson of Brigham Young. Hall of Fame. (clans Forbes, Findlay, Scrimgeour, McDonald)

1963 – Michael Young, BYU football player and descendant of Brigham Young. (clans Forbes, Findlay, Scrimgeour, McDonald)

1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra (Italian Swiss), Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham (clan Cunningham) aboard.

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Schirra was a First Class Boy Scout in Troop 36 in Oradell, New Jersey, Naval pilot. Eisele was an Eagle Scout and Naval and Air Force pilot. Cunningham was a Marine pilot.

The Apollo 7 crew: Donn Eisele(l.), Wally Schirra (c.), and Walter Cunningham (r.)

2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

2012 Professor Keith Campbell, one of the scientists who created Dolly the sheep, died. Campbell started working at University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute in 1991 and left in 1999 when he became a Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham. Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the team and became known as the sheep’s creator, said Prof Campbell deserved “66 per cent of the credit” for his contribution.

Since Dolly, research into animal cloning has developed rapidly. Cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses, dogs and cats have all been cloned, as well as laboratory animals such as mice

and rats. Sir Ian was awarded a knighthood in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List for his services to science. He is now the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/clone-scientist-keith-campbell-who-helped-create-dolly-the-sheep-dies-1-2568173

2011 bench trial in Alabama for child custody appealed to Chafin v. Chafin, 133 S. Ct. 1017 – Supreme Court 2013. In 2007 E.C. was born. Jeffrey Lee Chafin is a citizen of the United States and a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army. In 2007, Mr. Chafin was deployed to Afghanistan, and Ms. Chafin, a citizen of the United Kingdom, took E.C. to Scotland. Ms Chafin was deported in 2011 and E.C. remained in Alabama.   At trial the court ruled E.C.’s country of habitual residence was Scotland and granting the petition for return [to Scotland]. Within hours, Ms. Chafin left the country with E.C., headed for Scotland. By December 2011, she had initiated custody proceedings there. The Scottish court soon granted her interim custody and a preliminary injunction, prohibiting Mr. Chafin from removing E.C. from Scotland. $94,000 in fees were awarded. the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Convention) is to facilitate custody adjudications. Case revived.

2012 A Scots prayer – “Oh Lord, we dae not ask ye to gea us wealth. Just show us where it is!”

http://www.fife.50megs.com/scottish-humor2.htm

2016 flashback to 1505, when the first printing press was brought to Scotland by A. Mylar, who began printing Bibles, later translated from Latin to English causing the 1560 Protestant Reformation, leading to 1829 Glasgow lead fonts used to set

type for the printing of the Book of Mormon, to 1830 Scots’ Joseph Smith the Prophet and the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; leading to 2010 and Scots’ Thomas Monson and these New Testament videos.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-11-11-chapter-10-jesus-is-baptized?category=new-testament/new-testament-stories&lang=eng

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