September 8 1157 Prince Richard later King Richard 1st of England born (died 1199).

Richard the Lionheart, Cœur de Lion, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany. Eventually restores King Alexander and Scots national freedom from English overlord seized by his father King Henry 2nd .

1209 – King Sancho II of Portugal born (d. 1248). Sancho II `o Capelo’ (King) of PORTUGAL. (HENRIQUES), Born:  1207    Died:  1248 Toledo. HM George I’s 13-Great Uncle, U.S. President Grant’s 19-Great Uncle.       PM Churchill’s 20-Great Uncle.    http://fabpedigree.com/s008/f010278.htm

1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. Similar freedom guaranteed in the Scotland’s Declaration of Arbroath ‘nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman,’   and ‘Maccabaeus or Joshua’ on April 6, 1320. April 6th also happens to be the birthday of Jesus Christ. Boleslaw `the Pious’ PIAST (King) of POLAND, Boleslaw IV (Herzog) von POLEN-KALISCH, Born:  abt. 1221    Died:1279. HM George I’s 11-Great Grandfather.    U.S. President [GRANT]‘s 16-Great Grandfather.       PM Churchill’s 20-Great Grandfather.  http://fabpedigree.com/s018/f206466.htm

1271 – Charles Martel of Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (died 1295)

  1. Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd Governor of the Realm; and Great Chamberlain for life, and Lord Justice General in 1467, obtained the cession of Orkney Islands from Norway to Scotland, 8 September 1468. The Orkneys were little habited and difficult to govern because of their remote location. In that age the Bride of a King was expected to come with a dowery, and Norway pledged 10,000 pieces of gold for her dowery. But, not having the gold, or not wanting to part with the gold, the Orkneys were pledged against payment of the gold. James 3rd needed the gold, as he supposed.

Christian I, King of Norway, for whose daughter Margaret, Boyd negotiated a marriage with the James III, King of Scots, made the pledge. Norway had no interest in redeeming the pledge (i.e. paying out gold) and getting the islands back, so Norway let the interest accumulate.   Christian, thru Margaret, will become the ancestor of all Scots royalty from James 4th on, and English royalty from 1603, and European royalty by the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Charles I (Karl Knutsson Bonde) 20 November 1449– June 1450 (abdicated)

In the mean time back in the 15th century, Boyd’s folly (barren islands instead of gold) was not enough to secure Boyd’s position nor James 3rd, and the nobles rebelled against James 3rd who was assassinated. A century after the marriage, Norway forfeited its claim to the Orkneys to be released from the payment of the gold for which the Orkneys were mortagaged. 450 years after the dowery deal, the Orkneys’ port Scapa Flow, will be the safety port for the British fleet far north from the Nazi luft waffa air bombers during World War Two and the Battle of Britain. Fifty years later still, oil and gas discoveries in the North Sea will make these isolated islands wealthy and strategically important to Scotland and the British Isles. After centuries of discovery and investment, the Brits gained and lost America, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, Jamaica, Ireland and Hong Kong.   But it kept the Orkneys. The North Sea became a great investment when the technology came around. So who knew?

1474 Ludovico Ariosto (Italian: born 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Wikipedia. Almost 300 years later, featured by bookseller Andrew Millar 6th (clan Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

The Satires of Ludovico Ariosto etc. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand.

 

1578 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, lord high treasurer, nominated one of eight noblemen for the reconciliation of the two factions, and also lieutenant of the borders, with special powers for reducing them to obedience (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iii. 25–6).

Ruthven Motto: DEID SCHAW.         Chief: Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie Crest: A ram’s head couped Sable armed Or

1643 – sometime in September-   the English Parliament ratified a Solemn League and Covenant initiated by the Scottish Assembly and a Convention of Estates; signers pledged themselves to work for the supplanting of episcopacy. YYMA 22. Episcopacy took its revenge during the killing time, 30 years later.

1661 to 1829, Sometime in these years. Test Acts were English religious penal laws against public officers. Only persons professing the Established Church could hold ‘public’ employment. Ban aimed at Presbyterians, (Dissenters from the Established Church, recusants, Catholics, Nonconformists, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) The Corporation Act of 1661 required the sacrament from the Church of England within 12 months, sworn Oath of Allegiance, sworn Oath of Supremacy, sworn belief in Passive Obedience, renounce the Covenant, before election of any officer to city government. Imagine if every corporation officer in the U.S. had to comply to such a law! Test Acts were later specifically outlawed by the United States Constitution (Article 6) in 1789. Roman Catholic and recusants ban repealed circa 1829, as part of the Great Prologue.

1752 did not occur in England or British America. The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). Eleven days did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland, as well as other British controlled territories such as America, (when the day after 2 September 1752 was 14 September 1752), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar and most of Europe. The Musselmen, Confucian, Buddhist, and nativist calendars would continue until the 20th century when aviation and the internet forced the electrified world to adopt the Gregorian calendar.

  1. Edinburgh. Elder Orson Pratt, age 28, Apostle, (Gospel seeds in Scottish Soil, Ensign February 1987) wrote Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, published in Edinburgh by the firm of Ballantyne and Hughes. Commonly known as Remarkable Visions, the booklet consists of two parts. One part contains the first published account of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s vision of the Father and Son, along with a history of the Book of Mormon. The second portion of the pamphlet constitutes what was termed a “sketch of the faith and doctrine of the Church,” one of the earliest digests of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Richard Ballantyne founded the first Sunday School and opened missionary work in India.

Later republished in Liverpool, in 1848, the pamphlet was eventually translated into Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh, and became a classic of Saints missionary literature.

1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. It will not affect the eventual outcome of the war.

1873 David O. McKay, born Huntsville, Utah., 9th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. studied at the Weber Stake Academy and the University of Utah to prepare for a career in education. After completing formal schooling and a mission, he married his college sweetheart, Emma Ray Riggs, in 1901. David McKay joined the Church in Thurso, Scotland in 1850.

David Oman McKay. “Every member a missionary!’’

1900 – Galveston Texas United States Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane covers the Island Galveston, Texas, at night, washing out into the Gulf of Mexico between 8,000 to 20,000 people, with sea tide of 20 to 50 feet, An 18 foot high sea wall wa built to protect the island.

1912 Alexander Mackendrick born (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was a Scottish American director and teacher. His parents emigrated to the United States from Glasgow in 1911. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and later moved to Scotland.

1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad USSR begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a 20th century country between 1919 and 1990.

1943 – World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF. United States Army Air Forces.

1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight David Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.

1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.

1944 – World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.

1954 Brigadoon. Almost Filmed in Scotland. Americans Tommy Albright (Gene Kelly) and Jeff Douglas (Van Johnson) are on a hunting trip in Scotland and become lost in the woodlands. They happen upon Brigadoon, a miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day. Tommy calls Jeff, telling him to get the first flight back to Scotland.

Poster

1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).

 

1969 First Scotsmen on the moon space stamp. Armstrong and Aldrin.

First Man on Moon Commemorative Issue of 1969 ~ A unique stamp issued with a living person, Neil Armstrong (clan Armstrong).

 

2000 ~ Space Shuttle Program Issue of 2000

 

2000 Aberdeen released. A 2000 drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland.

Shooting in Glasgow representing various cities within the UK.

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