October 24 1378 David Stewart Duke of Rothesay was born to Carrick and Annabella. heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402).

1537 Jane Seymour, Queen and wife of King Henry 8th died. Beginning events for her brother Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp from 5 June 1536, and Earl of Hertford from 15 October 1537, to be Warden of the Scottish Marches. A decade later, as uncle to King Edward VI, Viscount Beauchamp was 1st Duke of Somerset (2nd creation became extinct in 1750).   The Duke’s battles included the Rough Wooing and Battle of Pinkie Cleugh 10 September 1547 wherein the Master of Meffin (Methvin) son of Margaret Tudor and Henry Lord Methven (clan Stewart) died, setting futher events toward the destruction of the Ruthven family in Scotland, and their near claim to the throne of England.   Jane Seymour.

1559 – the Scottish nobility formally deposed Mary of Guise from the regency. Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills. From then on, Maitland took over the political tasks, freeing Knox for the role of religious leader.

William Maitland of Lethington

1563 – two of the ringleaders, burgesses of Edinburgh, were scheduled for trial on 24 October 1563. In order to defend these men, Knox sent out letters calling the nobles to convene. Mary, Queen of Scots. obtained one of these letters and asked her advisors if this was not a treasonable act. Stewart and William Maitland of Lethington, wanting to keep good relations with both the Kirk and the Queen, asked Knox to admit he was wrong and to settle the matter quietly. Knox refused and he defended himself in front of Mary and the privy council.

John Knox portrait bearing the date 1572.

1574 plague entered Edinburgh, ‘brought in by ane dochter of Malvis Curll out of Kirkcaldy.’ A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy University of Cambridge. 1891

1644 the Long Parliament passes the Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish

1648          Peace of Westphalia treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The Treaty of Osnabrück (Instrumentum Pacis Osnabrugensis, IPO), concerning the Holy Roman Emperor, the Empire and Sweden and their respective allies.

1715 Honourable Colonel (afterwards Lord) Cathcart [TG69-329] enters Dunfermline.

Map with Dunfermline north of the Firth of Forth.

1768 earthquake. Inverness. Revelation 16:18 ’there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.’

1797 Admiral Duncan attacked the Dutch fleet off Camperdown, capturing 8 ships, the admiral and vice admiral and 4 frigates. Tytler’s Britannica.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

9th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon

1835 Catherine Cochrane (nee Pitcairn (died 24.10.1835, daughter of Major Pitcairn) widow of Major Charles Cochrane, who death in 1781 at Yorktown, while standing next to Lord Cornwallis, so shook the General that the surrender of the British forces soon followed.

One of the earliest maps of Williamsburg was drawn in 1702 by Franz Michel, a Swiss visitor who sketched Williamsburg “”between the Jems and Jorgk Rivier, six miles from the Jems and ten from Jorgtown

1841 Orson Hyde, having been directed by Joseph Smith (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack , Malcolm King of Scots) dedicates Jerusalem for the return of the Jews, leading eventually to the Balfour declaration of November 2, 1917 by the British.

Hyde spent from October 1841 to December 1842 in Jerusalem. Hyde recorded that before dawn on October 24, 1841 he climbed up the Mount of Olives overlooking the city, then both wrote and recited a prayer, part of which reads:

“Now, O Lord! Thy servant has been obedient to the heavenly vision which Thou gavest him in his native land; and under the shadow of Thine outstretched arm, he has safely arrived in this place to dedicate and consecrate this land unto Thee, for the gathering together of Judah’s scattered remnants, according to the predictions of the holy Prophets — for the building up of Jerusalem again after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long, and for rearing a Temple in honor of Thy name. Everlasting thanks be ascribed unto Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast preserved Thy servant from the dangers of the seas, and from the plague and pestilence which have caused the land to mourn. The violence of man has also been restrained, and Thy providential care by night and by day has been exercised over Thine unworthy servant. Accept, therefore, O Lord, the tribute of a grateful heart for all past favors, and be pleased to continue Thy kindness and mercy towards a needy worm of the dust.”

Having dedicated Jerusalem and Palestine for the ingathering of the Jews, Hyde departed the mountain after building a small altar with stones. A park honoring his visit called the ‘Orson Hyde Memorial Garden’ was dedicated in 1979. The park was funded by donations to the Orson Hyde Foundation through the Jerusalem Foundation. Hyde traveled home through Europe, stopping in Germany to produce the first LDS Church pamphlets in German.

Orson Hyde memorial park, Jerusalem, in modern Israel.

1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

1939 The third U-boat sunk in the Strait of Dover was “U-16” on the 24th. Germany made No more attempts to pass through the English Channel and U-boats were forced to sailed around the north of Scotland to reach the Atlantic. Monthly Loss Summary 
- 24 British, Allied and neutral ships of 63,000 tons in UK waters.

1942 The Battle of El Alamein is usually divided into five phases, consisting of the break-in (23–24 October), the crumbling (24–25 October), the counter (26–28 October), Operation Supercharge (1–2 November) and the breakout (3–7 November). No name is given to the period from 29–31 October, when the battle was at a standstill.

The names of hundreds of Scots – killed in North Africa during World War Two – are on memorials at El Alamein cemetery in northern Egypt. Etched into sun-seared stone, the names of hundreds of Scots can be read on the seemingly endless rows of headstones criss-crossing the small cemetery in northern Egypt.

Names like Bruce, Cameron, McCallum, and Stewart appear alien in a landscape so different to that of their homeland.

El Alamein is now the final resting place for 7,240 soldiers – approximately 498 of them Scottish – who lost their lives fighting the Axis forces in North Africa during World War Two.

The names of another 423 Scots, who have no known grave, can be found on the panels marking the entrance to the cemetery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-27299199

1945 – Duncan Lunan, Scottish astronomer and writer born. Lunan claims descent from King Robert II of Scotland, Alexander Stuart, who owned the “Lands of Lunaine” near Aberdeen, He joined the Scottish branch of the BIS (British Interplanetary Society) in 1962. He was on the committee which drew up the Constitution of ASTRA (Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics) as an independent society in 1963, and redrafted it as the “Memorandum and Articles of a Company Limited by Guarantee” in 1974.

1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. Only a small portion is visible, but it clearly shows the curvature of the earth as a globe.

2004 ‘Joseph Smith’ filming proceeds at a fast clip, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints movie must be done by 2005 anniversary date.

One of the brawlers takes exception at Smith’s intervention and bellows in a Scottish brogue, “Mind your own business, Smith. You should worry about your brother.” The Smiths were Scots on their mothers side from Inverness Scotland.

Alvin Smith is trying to break up a fight between workers using pickaxes and shovels to carve out the Erie Canal near 1820 Palmyra, N.Y. Rain falls on campfires, tents, mules and yoked oxen.

 

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