1119    

1128

Pope Honorius II assigned the Templar knights the white mantle of the Cistercians.  (2), (4)
 

1129

The Council of Troyes  under Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, (later Patron of the Order) endorsed the Order .(3)

 1147

Pope Eugenius III ordained the use of the blood-red Cross  of the order. (3) A Bothwell-Gosse in the "Knights Templar" points out that there are few reliable ancient representations, but the Eight Pointed Cross is probably older as the Cross than the Cross with the square ends, and must have existed before the Templar Cipher. He concludes that it was used before 1250 AD. (4) Herbert Norris in "Medieval Costume and Fashion" notes that the Templar knights wore the red Eight Pointed Cross on the left shoulder of their white mantles, the sergeants wore black mantles and the squires brown mantles.  (5)

 1291

The fall of Acre  on 28th May meant the  Templars no longer had a place in the Holy Land. They briefly established their headquarters in Cyprus. (6)

 1307

On Friday 13th October at the order  Philip IV "le Bel" (the Fair), in concert with Pope Clement V members of the Order are arrested in France. On 11th November, Pope Clement,under his bull "Pastoralis Praeemenintia", commanded an investigation of the anti-Templar charges and ordered the arrest of Templars in every country. His arrest warrant is sent to England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands (7) but not to the excommunicated King Robert the Bruce, and so some Templars are thought to have found refuge in Scotland.

 1312

By the Papal Bull "Ad Providam" all assets of the Order were given to the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Order of Malta) except for Spain and Portugal. (8)

In Scotland the Order combined with the Hospitallers and continued as The Order of St John and the Temple until the reformation. When Sir James Sandilands, Preceptor of the Order converted to Protestantism, the Order is thought to have ceased. (9)
 

 1314

On 18th March Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of The Order  and Geoffrey de Charnay are burned at the stake on the Île de de la Cité on the Seine in Paris.(10)

 1314

Some say Knights Templar  fought with Bruce at Bannockburn on 24^th June. (11), (12)
 

1689

John Graham of Claverhouse, "Bonnie Dundee", was killed at the battle of Killiecrankie on 27th July. He is  said to have been the Grand Master of a Jacobite "Convent" the Temple in the Montrose area, on the authority of Dom Calvet and was found to be wearing the Grand Cross of the Order under his breast plate. After his death the Mar is said to have held the office, and then Atholl. (13), (14)

1737

Oration of Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay, tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Paris. He  claimed that Freemasonry had begun among crusader knights and that they had formed themselves into Lodges of St John. Chevalier Ramsay was born at Ayr, near Kilwinning, where the Templars were said to have formed their alliance with the Masons in 1314. (15), (16)
 

 1745

Prince Charles Edward Stuart, is elected Grand Master of the Order in Edinburgh on Tuesday 24th September.(13), (14)

1795

John Olivant of Bachilton who had succeeded Prince Charles Edward Stuart as Grand Master dies.(14)

Following the death if  John Olivant Alexander Deuchar, a Freemason, and Lyon Herald at the Court of the Lord Lyon assumes the role of Grand Master tracing the order back to 1740 by  living members. (17)
 

1804

A new form of Templarism appeared out of the Chevaliers de la Croix, a Masonic Lodge in Paris . The Order received the approval of Napoleon. Fabré Palaprat, a former priest who had supported the revolution, turned chiropodist, joined and became the first Grand Master. This Order split in two in 1813, 1833 and 1838 (18)

1808

Alexander Deuchar was elected Commander or Chief of the Edinburgh Encampment No 31 of Templars (a Masonic encampment). (20) He was assisted in his endeavours by his brother, David Deuchar,  of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment (1st Regiment of Foot), (later The Royal Scots), who provided a Cross from the Templar Church in the Castle of Tomar in Portugal, where the Regiment had served during the Peninsular War. (21)
 

The   Order was still  Masonic under a charter from the Duke of Kent dated 19th June, 1811 in Scotland and was inaugurated as the "Grand Conclave of Knights of the Holy Temple and Sepulcher, and of St. John of Jerusalem, H.R.D.M.X K.D.SH". (20)
Deuchar Charters subsequently issued were not Masonic, as they authorised Encampments to install Knights Templar and Knights of St John of Jerusalem, on the one condition that that such Encampments should not hold any communion or intercourse with any Chapter or Encampment, or body assuming that name, holding meetings of Knights Templar, under a Master Mason's Charter. (22)
 

1825

It was decided that the knights should use a white cloak or mantle with a red cross of 8 points on the left breast. (23)

1836

The Grand Conclave was was remodelled, vacating its Masonic position and admitting non-Masons to membership, including the Bishop of Aberdeen and the Duke of Leeds. (24)
 

 1853

Napoleon III recognised one of the groups that split in 1838. (25)
 

1932

Formation of a new Grand Priory of Belgium as The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, forming n alliance with surviving Grand Priories in Italy, Portugal and Switzerland.(26)

1941

Archives of the Order transferred from occupied Belgium for safety to the Portuguese Grand Prior Antonio Campello de Sousa Fontes, who declined to return the archives after the War and declared himself Regent.  This lead to further schism. (27)
 

The Modern non Masonic Order, Militi Templi Scotia,  in Scotland affiliated to The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (SMOTJ)  (28)

 1995

The Order now known as Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani (OSMTH), and known in the USA as The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (SMOTJ) separated from Sousa Fontes' son, Fernando (Antonio having died in 1960 and willed his succession to him), establishing a new Order. (29)

Today there are a number of Groups of The Order operating in Scotland.