October 2   1066 Normans in Angleterre.

ODO EP[ISCOPU]S WILLEM[US] ROTBERT

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1263 Battle of Largs in North Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Alexander, the Steward, a high officer in the Scottish court was killed.

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had Robert II The Steward, Earl Strathearn, afterward Robert II, King of Scots] Scots defeated the Vikings who were attempting to invade. (ancestor of Andrew Stewart 2^nd Lord Ochiltree)

Important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. The Norwegian forces were led by king Håkon Håkonsson and the Scottish forces by king Alexander III.

The Battle of Largs – 1263. Alexander III defeats Haakon IV Haakonsson, King of Norway, at the Battle of Largs. In 1266, Haakon’s successor, Magnus, signed the Treaty of Perth which surrendered sovereignty of the Western Isles to the Scottish crown. Video: Rioghachd nan Eilean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotland_united/the_battle_of_largs/

1326 Invasion of England (1326) Isabella of France the She-wolf of France, was Queen consort and reaches Oxford on the east of England and pursues Edward II of England (descendant of Malcolm and Duncan Kings of Scotland). Isabella struck west again, reaching Oxford on the 2^nd of October where she was “greeted as a saviour” – Adam Orleton, the bishop of Hereford, emerged from hiding to give a lecture to the university on the evils of the Despensers. Edward fled London on the same day, heading west toward Wales

1401 – sometime in October – Anabella Drummond died, married 1367, seven children, Queen to Robert III. Daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Stobhall, near Perth, 11^th Thane of Lennox and Chief of Clan Drummond, and Mary Montifex. Her father’s sister was Margaret Drummond, the second wife of David II of Scotland.

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1688 MELDRUM, GEORGE (1635?–1709), admitted to the charge of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, some time before 2 Oct. 1688. Meldrum was rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and professor of divinity in the university of Edinburgh, was ‘the fourth son of a family in Aberdeenshire of the old house of Meldrum (Wodrow, Analecta, i. 175). In 1681 Meldrum was deprived of his charge for refusing to take the test; but after the Toleration Act issued by James 2^nd [of England] [1688] Meldrum was admitted. James’ Act was followed by one from Parliament which allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation, i.e., Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists but not to Catholics. Nonconformists were allowed their own places of worship and their own teachers. The Test Act continued in that Dissenters were excluded from political office and universities beginning in 1829.

• As these acts applied to various degrees in Scotland, and in the North American station (i.e. colonies), their enforcement and repeal is traced as follows. Toleration of worship was extended to Protestants who did not believe in Trinitarian doctrine in the Unitarians Relief Act 1813. Catholics were allowed strict conditions of worship through the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791. Oaths and tests that barred non-conformists and Catholics from public offices, school keeping and owning land were rescinded by the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1778, the Roman Catholic Charities Act 1832, the Test Abolition Act 1867, the Promissory Oaths Act 1868, the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 and the Oaths Act 1978. The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 allowed Catholics to be elected to Parliament and most Crown offices, but not all. The Jews Relief Act 1858 allowed Jews in Parliament and most Crown offices, but not all. The Religious Disabilities Act 1846 ended restrictions on Catholics for education, charities, and property – though Oxford, Cambridge and Durham universities were allowed to ban Catholics until the passage of the University Tests Act 1871. The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 registered non-Anglican places of worship.

1781 Yorktown Virginia. British fire increased on the 2nd and the allies suffered moderate casualties. General Washington continued to make visits to the front, despite concern shown by several of his officers over the increasing enemy fire. On the night of October 2, the British opened a storm of fire to cover up the movement of the British cavalry to Gloucester where they were to escort infantrymen on a foraging party.

1845 Glasgow Angus writer, Scottish Charles Mackay, author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds describes the South Sea Bubble, the Railway Mania, and Tulip Mania. Crowd psychology covered  alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics.

1854 The Siege of Sevastopol, Begins in September. Continues to

1855 The Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War, ends in September. Scots Fusilier Guards, now the Scots Guards. 1^st Royal Regiment: now the Royal Scots. 42^nd Highlanders, The Black Watch. 6^th Dragoon Guards: later the 6th Carabineers and now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. Royal Scots Greys: now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. 71^st Highland Light Infantry, now the Royal Highland Fusiliers. 72^nd Highlanders: later the Seaforth Highlands, then the Queen’s Own Highlanders and now the Highlanders. 79^th Highlanders, the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders: later the Queen’s Own Highlanders and now the Highlanders. 90th Regiment: later the Scottish Rifles; disbanded in 1966. 93^rd Regiment: now the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/sevastopol.htm

Piper David Beard of the 42nd Highlanders, The Black Watch.

1902 On 2 October 1902 The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published, and was an immediate success. In 1893, Helen Beatrix Potter, on holiday at Dunkeld, Perthshire, told a story about “four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.”

First edition, 1902. In 1900, Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it. Unable to find a buyer for the work, she published it for family and friends at her own expense in December 1901. It was drawn in black and white with a coloured frontispiece. Frederick Warne & Co. had previously rejected the tale but, eager to compete in the booming small format children’s book market, reconsidered and accepted the “bunny book” (as the firm called it) following the recommendation of their prominent children’s book artist L. Leslie Brooke. Potter agreed to colour her pen and ink illustrations, choosing the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours.

1942 HM Queen Mary, Cunard Line, built Clydebank Scotland, converted to troopship. Queen Mary collides with British light cruiser CURACOA. 70 tons of cement are used to temporarily patch the bow in Gourock, Scotland.

1978 Ensign. The Saints around the World: Strong Saints in Scotland. https://www.lds.org/ensign/1978/10/the-saints-around-the-world-strong-saints-in-scotland?lang=eng ‘When Henry McGibbon and his wife attended their first Latter-day Saint meeting in the 1950s, they were shocked.

Not because they had to walk one and one-half miles across rough ground to catch a tram from their home in Barlanark, Scotland, to the meeting place in Airdrie, a considerable distance away. They had accepted that. But, once there, they found the meeting in a goods station terminal at an old railway hall. They were not prepared for such an unusual setting: missionaries had told them of Church buildings in the United States, and Mrs. McGibbon regularly attended a church that met in a conventional chapel. Henry, however, was not deterred. “It looks as though they need all the help they can get if they are going to build the Church strong in Scotland,” he remarked. They were baptized in 1956, joining thousands of others who, since 1839, have faced opposition and helped the Church grow.’ Airdrie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, 11 miles (18 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street. An Ard-Ruigh Gaelic.

This is an image claiming to be an old railway station, converted to a restaurant (Waterman’s), in North Lanarkshire, the same location described in the Airdrie story above. It shows how the station, or one like it, may have looked in the 1950s.

2009. Music. Tune Scotland the Brave for Praise to the Man. Performed by the Congregation.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/music?lang=eng#sort=session&dir=desc&page=&lang=eng&clang=eng&search=praise+to+the+man&conference=all

2011. Music. Tune Scotland the Brave for Praise to the Man. Performed by the Congregation.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/music?lang=eng#sort=session&dir=desc&page=&lang=eng&clang=eng&search=praise+to+the+man&conference=all

2012 Humor

Lindsay, walking through the glebe, saw a man using his hand, drinking water from a pool. 
The Scot shouted ‘Awa ye feel hoor that as full oa coos Sharn’
(Away you fool, halt, that’s full of cows’ ‘pies.’)
The drinker shouted back ‘I’m English, Speak English, I don’t understand you.’
 Lindsay shouted back, ‘Use both hands, you’ll get more in.’‘

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 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/2010-11-02-chapter-1-elisabeth-and-zacharias?category=new-testament/new-testament-stories&lang=eng

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