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A
Timeline of Clan MacCord History |
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Structure
of the Timeline
This Timeline contains dated events from The MacCord /
McCord family history. Wherever possible, links have been
provided to other Web sites where you can learn more about
the events and the people that have made Scotland what
it is today. |
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Chronology
of MacCord / McCord family
--(1600 - 1899 </>) |
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| 1603 -
circa 1603 map of Scotland shows Killikrankie as a town
NW of Dundee |
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| 1611 - King
James Bible-England |
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| 1611 -
Plantation of Ulster-------------------------------First
settlements |
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| 1617 - John
Calvin – works published |
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| 1637 - Presbyterian
Scots revolt, Edinburgh center of politics |
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| 1641 - Irish
attack Ulster Plantations, 5000 settlers killed outright-
some estimates 20000- 60000 killed during war. Have seen
these figures to exceed 200,00 to ½ million-Trinity
College Records-Ireland and Londonderry when the Irish
population is only ½ million for the whole period
(believe it referred-Dr. Maude Glasgow 1936) |
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| 1648 -
Scottish Army crushed by Cromwell at Battle of Preston |
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| 1648 - Scottish
Covenanters under Argyle offer to join Charles II if he
joins them |
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| 1651 - Cromwell
beats Charles II Scottish Army, lowland Scots |
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| 1649 - Cromwell
crushes Irish rebellion |
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| 1653-1658 -
Cromwell Lord Protector of England |
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1679
- Rise of the Covenanters
revolt crushed
– Duke of York sent to Govern Scotland
– his military agent was John Graham of Claverhouse
“who at first was occupied mainly against the
fanatical extremists in southwest, gained the name of
“bloody Clavers”.”
– Graham of Claverhouse
– was Viscount Dundee, the leader of the Highlanders
at Killiekrankie
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| 1686 - In
Co Tyrone, James McCord wrote and his father John and
other brothers, came to County Tyrone near Stewartstown.
This is also recorded in “Genealogical History of
the Milesian Families of Ireland, compiled and edited
by B. W. DeCOURCY |
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| 1686-1688 -
several McCords on land in County Tyrone-Mary McCord’s
Mists of times land records. |
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| 1688-1689 -
105-Day Siege of Londonderry Ireland where Protestant
Scots with stood all of Europe, Jacobites and Irish Catholic
Armies |
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| 1688 - Siege
of Londonderry Ulster, Killiekrankie Scotland, Wm of Orange’s
forces, personally went to Ireland and took charge and
beat the combined Jacobites-Irish forces at Boyne finally
ending in victory in 1693. |
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| 1689 - Battle
of Boyne |
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| 1700 - World
population est. at 625 million |
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| 1715 - Age
of Enlightenment begins in Europe. |
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| 1717 - London’s
4 Secret Societies announce much to the Chagrin of Mason
as elsewhere, Shock the world with the announcement that
they were members of the Great Society if free Masons. |
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| 1718-1719 -
Begins the migration of Ulster Scots and other
Protestants to Pennsylvania and New York Freemason are
found in the Vanguard of Ulster Scot migration and later
Revolutionary War. Highly organized and dedicated. Led
by George Washington and Jefferson and a host of other
Masons and ably assisted by Masons elsewhere in the
world? |
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| 1799 - .
James wrote he was 4 and that he and father John both
born in Ayrshire where James was residing, |
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1802 - Knight
Templars SMOTJ came first come in America Officially in
1802
Member and Tennessee Adjutant General Bert Chalfant reports |
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MacCord
History Timeline -1600-1899 </>
