October 31 All Hallow’s Eve Halloween All Hallows Evening Night before All Saints day.

1147 William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester begins reign as Earl of Gloucester, son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, who died, 1st Earl was a natural son of King Henry I of England,

Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester,

1492 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets gives us one fictional concrete date: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (aka Nearly Headless Nick) celebrates the 500th anniversary of his deathday, which occurred 31 October 1492. Wikipedia. Hogwarts and the major locations are in Scotland.

1509 Robert de Cochrane, his apparent heir, who died before his father, leaving iffue a fon, John de Cochrane, dominus ejufed. Who fucceeded his grandfather, and was infelt and feized in his lands of Cochrane, Coricford anno 1498. He obtained a licence under the great feal, from King James IV,

empowering him to difpofe of his lands Easter-Cochrane in Renfrewfhire, or the lands of Pitfour in Perth-fhire, dated at Edinburgh, 31ft October 1509. He accordingly fold part of his lands of Cochrane, to James archbifhop of Glafgow, anno 1519, by a deed, to which his feal is appended, bearing three boars heads erased, and circumfelbed, figillam Johannis de Cochrane. He died anno 1538, leaving iffue by Elizabeth, daughter of John Semple of Falwood, his wife, a fon and fucceffor. [Spelling from the original].

 

1509 Robert de Cochrane, his apparent heir, who died before his father, leaving issue a son, John de Cochrane, master of the same. Who succeeded his grandfather, & was invested and owned in lands of Cochrane, Coricford, year 1498. He obtained a license under the great seal, from King James 4th, empowering him to dispose of his lands Easter-Cochrane in Renfrewshire, or the lands of Pitsour in Perth-shire, dated at Ediburgh, 31st October 1509. He accordingly sold part of his lands of Cochrane, to James archbishop of Glasgow, year 1519, by a deed, to which his seal is appended, bearing three boars heads erased, and circumselbed, son of John de Cochrane, He died year 1538, leaving issue by Elizabeth, daughter of John Semple of Falwood, his wife, a son and successor.

18th century map showing Renfrewshire southwest of Perthshire, Glasgow west and Edinburgh east.

 

1517 Martin Luther, Reformer, On 31 October 1517, Luther wrote to his bishop, Albert of Mainz, protesting the sale of indulgences. Luther enclosed in his letter a copy of his “Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” which came to be known as The Ninety-Five Theses. Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices, and the tone of the writing is accordingly “searching, rather than doctrinaire.”

Door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg to which, by one account, Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on 31 October 1517, sparking the Reformation. The great prologue.

1574 Privy Council at Dalkeith, issued order to check spread of plague landwards through the departure of sick folk and foul persons, no one to conceal the existence of plague. October 31, 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

1745 Edinburgh. [Prince] Charles Edward (TG79-205) [Stewart] marched out of Edinburgh at the head of his guards, and of Lord Pitsligo’s horse; 5500 strong. The castle and town of Carlisle surrendered. Tytler’s Britannica 235.

1778 – Thomas Cochrane, the 8th Earl (died 1778) of Dundonald. Thomas was born in 1691, the seventh son of William Cochrane of Ochiltree, and his wife Lady Mary Bruce, eldest daughter of Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine.

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Cochrane entered the army, becoming a cornet in the Royal Regiment of Dragoons in 1713, and a captain in the 27th Regiment of Foot in 1716. He rose to the rank of major in 1718 and was Fort Major at Fort St Philip on Minorca. Cochrane became Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire in 1722, and represented the constituency until 1727. He was Commissioner of the Excise for Scotland from 1730 until 1764. Cochrane supported the Hanoverians during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and later gave evidence against the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Archibald Stewart, who had surrendered the city to the Jacobites.

1806 Honiton England Bye election (not a nation wide general election). Thomas Cochrane, known during most of his adult life as Lord Cochrane, ran for Parliament in Honiton and won. Cochrane initially denied that he paid any bribes, but Cochrane himself revealed in a Parliamentary debate ten years afterward that he had paid ten guineas (£10 10s) per voter through Mr. Townshend, local headman and banker.

This cartoon was drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and was published by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside on 17 May 1807.

The “ghost” of Honiton is saying, “Look at this Dirty Shirt. Dost thou know me now?” The label on his tongue says “Bribery and corruption”. The remaining principal characters in the cartoon are the other candidates. To his right, Sir Francis Burdett is saying, ” Let the gall’d Jade in once our withers are unwrung”, to which Richard Sheridan (with the very red face) replies, “I beg you will not mention the subject. You hurt my feelings”. Lord Cochrane says, “Take any shape but that and my firm nerves shall never tremble”; behind him, James Paull says, “I thought some mischief was brewing”. There had been a bye-election in the potwalloper borough of Honiton in June 1805 following the death of the sitting MP, George Shum. Lord Thomas Cochrane, (after about 1830 tenth Earl of Dundonald and Admiral Lord Cochrane) stood as a candidate on a platform of parliamentary reform for the borough. At that time, it was accepted practice that candidates “treated” (bribed) the voters but Cochrane offered nothing and lost the election. In October 1806, he again ran for Parliament in Honiton and won. In May 1807 after a very “dirty” election campaign, Cochrane was elected by the voters of Westminster (downtown London) in a more democratic election. As an MP, Cochrane campaigned for parliamentary reform, allied with such Radicals as William Cobbett, Sir Francis Burdett and Henry Hunt. The result of the Westminster election of 1807 was: Sir Francis Burdett (Whig) and Lord Cochrane (Tory) became MPs for Westminster . The defeated candidates were Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Whig) who finally found a seat as MP for Ilchester, John Elliot (Tory) and James Paull (radical).

1860 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, died, (Earl from after 1831), styled as Lord Cochrane from 1778-1831 19th century Royal Navy Admiral and British Whig Party politician. French nicknamed him Le Loup des Mers (‘The Wolf of the Seas’). His life and exploits served as one source of inspiration for the naval fiction of 19th and 20th -century novelists, particularly C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey, Master and Commander.

Photo 1858, age 83. Thomas Alexander Cochrane, X conde de Dundonald, Marques de Maranhao. Sirvió en las marinas de Chile, Brasil y Grecia. Also served in the navies of Chile, Brazil, and Greece.

1864 Nevada statehood.   Scots named locations. Adams Creek, Anderson Homestead, Arden Siding, Ashton, Auld Lang Syne Peak, Bannock, Barclay Siding, Barnes Ranch, Baxter Creek, Bell Mountain, Belmont, Bernice Creek, Black Ridge, Black Rock, Blair and Logan Springs, Bonnie Claire, Burns Creek, Campbell Valley, Castle Rock, Charleston, Churchill, Clan Alpine, Clayton Valley, Clifton, Craig Station, Crossroads, Crown Peak, Currie, Dalton Canyon,,Davidson Peak, Douglas, Dunlap Mill, Dyke, Elgin, Elliot Ranch, Fife Mountain, Fort McDermitt, Garfield Hills, Glendale, Green Hill, Hamilton, Henderson, Highland Peak, Hunter, Jamestown, Kennedy, Kingston, Lee, Lewis, Lockwood, Logan, Lynn Creek, Lyon Peak, Mac Canyon, Mackay Mansion, Martin Ridge, McBride Flat, McCall Creek, McCann Station, McConnell Peak, McCoy, McCutcheon Creek, McDermitt, McDonald Creek, McDuffy Gulch, McFarland Peak, McGhee Mountain, McGill, McIntyre Summit, McKinney Mountains, McKissick Canyon, McLeans, McLeod, McMaughn Canyon, Milton Ranch, Monroe Canyon, Morey, Mount Charleston, Mount Duncan, Mount Grant, Mount Hope, Mount Scott, Mount Stirling, Newark, Piper Peak, Preston, Ralston, Red Hill, Red House, Red Point, Riverside, Ross Creek, Royston Hills, Scott Pass, Stewart, Stonehouse, Temple Peak, The Cove, The Hermitage, Thompson Creek, Wallace Canyon, Whisky Flat, White House Ranch, Young Creek

1891 The Baptism of Prince Maurice of Battenberg in Balmoral Palace Scotland.

Artist George Ogilvy Reid 1891. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had fallen in love with Scotland on their first visit here in the summer of 1842. They first rented and then bought the Balmoral estate on Deeside. The building of Balmoral Castle began in 1852. It remains to this day (2013) an annual holiday residence of the royal family. This painting was commissioned by Queen Victoria to celebrate the baptism of her grandson, Prince Maurice, which took place at Balmoral on 31 October 1891, the first baptism of a royal prince in Scotland for three hundred years. www.nationalgalleries.org

1914 Anniversary. Hallowe’en.

1st Territorial infantry battalion unit into action in the great war (later styled Word War One), Messines ridge, 1st battle of Ypres. London Scottish is a unit of the British Army. Formerly a regiment, the unit is now a company of The London Regiment. Founded in 1859 as part of the Volunteer Force sponsored by The Highland Society of London and The Caledonian Society of London, a group of individual Scots raised The London Scottish Rifle Volunteers under the command of Lt Col Lord Elcho, later The Earl of Wemyss and March.

Lt Col Lord Elcho clothed the regiment in Hodden Grey, the homespun cloth known throughout Scotland. This avoided all interclan feeling on the subject of tartan and, as Lord Elcho said “A soldier is a man hunter. As a deer stalker chooses the least visible of colours, so ought a soldier to be clad.”

RTS MacPherson, Lt Col MAJ. Commander.

http://www.londonscottishregt.org/history.cfm

Actors in the London Scottish Regiment included Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, and Basil Rathbone.

1940 Hauted Honeymoon. Released in time for Halloween. Scottish mystery film, humor with Robert Montgomery (clan) as Lord Peter Wimsey. Somewhere in Inverness Scotland. Who done it? Robert Newton as Cratchley (later Blackbeard and Long John Silver).

1941 Sinking of USS Reuben James (DD-245). Reuben James (c. 1776 – 3 December 1838) was a boatswain’s mate of the United States Navy, famous for his heroism in the First Barbary War.

1991-09-03 World War II Commemorative Issue. The year 1941 was one of extreme changes in the United States, as World War II entered more and more Americans’ thoughts and touched American lives. The North African campaign became more intense, with Germany’s Afrika Korps arriving in Tripoli and retaking land lost in late 1940. German U-boats continued to disrupt the shipping lanes between the United States and Great Britain. www.usstampgallery.com

1941 Monthly Loss Summary
12 British, Allied and neutral ships of 83,000 tons in UK waters. www.naval-history

1942 Monthly Loss Summary
6 British, Allied and neutral ships of 13,000 tons in UK waters. www.naval-history

1944 Monthly Loss Summary
2 British, Allied and neutral ships of 1,700 tons in UK waters. www.naval-history

1949 Challenge to Lassie movie released. Wikipedia. Set in Scotland in 1860, the film tells the story of a rough collie named Lassie whose master, Jock Gray, is killed by robbers in Edinburgh. After his death, the dog keeps a constant vigil beside her master’s grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, which is in violation of the local dog laws. In the original novel Greyfriars Bobby, the title dog was a Skye Terrier named Bobby and his owner dies from pneumonia.

Wanted by the Law. New Thrills in Technicolor.

1980 Samaire Armstrong, Samaire Rhys Armstrong actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money, (born October 31, 1980). a Scottish father, Hunter Armstrong, and an Italian mother, Sylvia Sepielli.

2012 New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut flooded from Hurricane Sandy.

McDonald’s (possibly the world’s most famous Scots business trade mark) fast food restaurant flooded.

Space view of Western Europe with Hurricane over Scotland (1968?).

2016 Newsweek announced ‘’ Trump has inched up by another percentage point. He now has a 10 percent chance of winning the election, compared to Clinton’s 90 percent chance. On Friday morning, Trump had a nine percent chance of winning, while a week ago Clinton had a 93 percent chance of coming out on top. Clinton will be the winner of the November 8 election. Looking at polls only, Clinton has a 78.9 percent chance of winning the election, compared to Trump’s 21 percent  A new Morning Consult and POLITICO survey released on Monday morning shows that in a four-way race between Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Trump gained three points and had 39 percent of support, to Clinton’s 42 percent.’’ In hind sight, the gamblers should have taken up these pollsters on their predictions. These Prophesies are sent around the world to Japan, Europe, Africa and South America, to announce the American mind. Trump’s mother immigrated to America from Scotland.

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