- On this day in 1715, John Erskine, the 6th Earl of Mar, unfurled the standard of the Old Pretender at Braemar. Mar raised the standard of behalf of James Francis Edward Stuart , thus starting the first of the major Jacobite Rebellions. The rising failed, largely due to Mar’s incompetence, after an inconclusive battle at Sheriffmuir meant that the Jacobites had lost the initiative. The Earl and James fled to France, where Mar remained in exile until his death. He was known as “Bobbing John” because of his vacillating political allegiance.
- 1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
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