In the 1870s Plaistow was described by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a village, a chapelry and a ward in the Parish of West Ham in Essex.

Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island, John C. Pease and John Niles, Hartford, 1819.

From The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the States, Counties ... By John Hayward.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Effingham like this:

* Description of Hemel Hempstead ( 1870 – 72 ), John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles provides a profile of Blackburn in 1887:

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Kettering as:

In 1887, according to John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, the population was 1, 705

* Entries on Selkirkshire from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland by Frances Groome ( 1882-4 ) and the Gazetteer of the British Isles by John Bartholomew ( 1887 )( Vision of Britain )

John ( 1882 ) The Gazetteer of Scotland Edinburgh.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cambridge like this:

By the 1870s, this had grown to just over 1900, according to John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-72.

* John Marius Wilson, author of Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

In the 1870s the Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales by John Marius Wilson said about Mangotsfield:

John Marius Wilson: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales ( 1870 – 72 ):

During Keyser's lordship, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales listed Adminston as a possible name for the village.

Hannington was described in the late 19th century in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as:

In 1870-72, John Goring's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Exton like this:

In 1870-72, John Goring's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Easton like this:

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Condover thus:

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales ( 1870-1872 ) says of Cherhill:

East Woodhay, as described in John Goring's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales ( 1870 – 72 )

* 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.

The inauguration of John Balliol as king on 30 November 1292 ended the six years of interregnum when the Guardians of Scotland governed the land.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scots Book of Common Order.

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

Calvinism became the theological system of the majority in Scotland ( see John Knox ), the Netherlands, with men such as William Ames, T J Frelinghuysen and Wilhelmus à Brakel and parts of Germany ( especially those adjacent to the Netherlands ) with the likes of Olevianus and his colleague Zacharias Ursinus.

Pius IV sent the decrees to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a letter dated June 13, 1564, requesting her to publish them in Scotland, but she dared not do it in the face of John Knox and the Reformation.

* History of Scotland, De origine, moribus, ac rebus gestis Scotiae libri decem, John Leslie

At the age of 10 he was taken by his mother to hear a talk given by John Thomas in Aberdeen, Scotland.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

The Pope had recognised Edward I of England's claim to overlordship of Scotland in 1305 and Bruce was excommunicated by the Pope for murdering John Comyn before the altar in Greyfriars Church in Dumfries in 1306.

The reason given in the Declaration is that Bruce was able to defend Scotland from English aggression whereas, by implication, King John could not.

A feature of these publications is the high-quality illustrations made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist draftsmen like John Farey, Jr. Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

* McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger ( 2007 ) Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland.

To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate, for which he extracted legal recognition that the realm of Scotland was held as a feudal dependency to the throne of England before choosing John Balliol, the man with the strongest claim, who became king in 1292.

Over the next few years Edward I used the concessions he had gained to systematically undermine both the authority of King John and the independence of Scotland.

In 1296 Edward invaded Scotland, deposing King John.

For a short time Wallace ruled Scotland in the name of John Balliol as Guardian of the realm.

In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath, a remonstrance to the Pope from the nobles of Scotland, helped convince Pope John XXII to overturn the earlier excommunication and nullify the various acts of submission by Scottish kings to English ones so that Scotland's sovereignty could be recognised by the major European dynasties.

In 1559 John Knox returned from ministering in Geneva to lead the Calvinism | Calvinist reformation in Scotland