October 9 250 Denys Bishop of Paris and his Companions Martyrs, c.250

Saint Denis, holding his head, statue at the left portal of Notre Dame. Carried his head 400 yards up a hill to his tomb.

768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne (Ancestor of James 2^nd King of Scots) are crowned Kings of The Franks.

1200 Isabel Marshal born and was the wife on her 17^th birthday of Gilbert de Clare, 4^th Earl of Hertford and 1^st Earl of Gloucester. With Gilbert, she was a great grandparent of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland. Isabel’s husband Gilbert joined in an expedition to Brittany in 1229, but died 25 October 1230 on his way back to Penrose, in that duchy. His body was conveyed home by way of Plymouth and Cranborne, to Tewkesbury, where he was buried at the abbey. 2^nd husband married 30 march 1231 Richard, 1^st Earl of Cornwall (son of King John of England).

1217 Gilbert de Clare, 5^th Earl of Hertford married Isabel Marshal on her 17^th birthday.

1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.

1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711. The crusades recruited many Scots warriors including King Robert Bruce, whose loss gave the name to the clan Lockhart.

1506 King James 4^th ratified the Charter incorporating the Surgeons and Barbers.

1514 Louis 12^th of France after the death of Anne, Louis then married Mary Tudor (1496–1533), the sister of Henry VIII, the King of England in Abbeville, France, on 9 October 1514, in an attempt to conceive an heir to his throne and perhaps to further establish a future claim for his descendants upon the English throne as well. Maria of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and the mother of his only son, King Louis XII,

1544 Second Siege of Boulogne. a French assault nearly captured the city, but was beaten back when the troops prematurely turned to looting.

1568 English Commissioners to the Queen Elizabeth at York with Scots.

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic, or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1 Mosiah 27:31 Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, Doctrine and Covenants 88:104

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.

1646 the Long Parliament passes the Ordinance for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops in England and Wales and for settling their lands and possessions upon Trustees for the use of the Commonwealth. This lasts until the Restoration in 1661.

1693 Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim (October 9, 1693 – September 9, 1755) was a German Lutheran church historian. Quotes from the Matho book, bookseller Andrew Millar 6^th (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

Matho: sive, cosmotheoria puerilis, dialogus: in quo prima elementa de mundi etc. Londini, Apud A. Millar in vico vulgo dicto Strand. MDCCXLVI.

Authored by Andrew Baxter, (1686/1687, Aberdeen – 23 April 1750, Whittingehame, East Lothian) was a Scottish metaphysician, educated at King’s College, University of Aberdeen.

1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale College) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

1760 – Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin

1781 Battle of Yorktown. 71^st Fraser’s Highlanders (disbanded at the end of the war).

Yorktown from the York River before it was destroyed during the Battle of Yorktown

1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of Captain Lancelot Skynner, 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.

A further Skynner (William Walker Skynner) also died at sea. He was the Navigation Officer in HMS Hampshire, which sunk after hitting a mine off the north of Scotland while taking Lord Kitchener to Russia in 1916. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and the HMS Hampshire Memorial at Winchester Cathedral.

1806 – Prussia declares war on France.

1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.

1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. On July 26, 1822, José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar held a famous conference in Guayaquil to plan for the independence of Spanish South America. Lord Cochrane participating in the independence.

1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.

1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook Virginia– Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces.

1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.

1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp Belgium falls to German troops.

1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit electricity 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.

1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain– During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.

1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 4^th Infantry Regiment.

Royal Scots with captured Japanese flag, Burma, January 1945.

1991 Sept 3 World War 2, commemorative issue.

1945 – Parade in New York City for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 US Navy / US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients

2012 Humor. The story was told of one John MacDonald, who was older, and was unexpectedly appointed bell-ringer in the Parish Church, surprising and delighting his wife. She was open with her pleasure and lost no time in telling one and all of the good news.
 “Have ye heard of the job me man has just gotten?” she asked her neighbors.
 “what is it ?”
”The ringing of the Church bell, ” replied the proud wife.
 “Ane what wage comes with that?” came the vital question.
 “Oh, he’s very well paid, ” said Mrs MacDonald, “he gets an excellent wage ane a free grave!’’

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/2010-11-09-chapter-8-wicked-king-herod?category=new-testament/new-testament-stories&lang=eng

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