1568 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1568 in: England • Elsewhere |
Events from 1568 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – James VI
- Regent: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
Events
[edit]- 2 May – The deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle.
- 13 May – Marian civil war: Battle of Langside – The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her half-brother.[1]
- 16 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees across the Solway Firth from Scotland to England[2] but on May 19 is placed in custody in Carlisle Castle on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I of England, her cousin.
- 10 June – The Earl of Moray musters forces at Biggar for a march on Dumfries.
- October – The Earl of Moray shows Mary's "casket letters" at a conference in York headed by the Duke of Norfolk, and again at Westminster Palace on 7 December
Arts and literature
[edit]- Edinburgh merchant George Bannatyne begins compiling the Bannatyne Manuscript while confined to his home due to plague.[3]
Births
[edit]- John Row, ecclesiastical historian and Reformer (died 1646)
- Approximate date – John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (died 1622 in England)[4]
Deaths
[edit]- William Baillie of Lamington, landowner
References
[edit]- ^ McNeill, Peter G. B.; MacQueen, Hector L. (1996). Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-9503904-1-3.
- ^ Holmes, P. J. (1987). "Mary Stewart in England". The Innes Review. 38 (38): 195–218. doi:10.3366/inr.1987.38.38.195. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
- ^ Brown, J. T. T. (1904). "The Bannatyne Manuscript: A Sixteenth Century Poetical Miscellany". The Scottish Historical Review. 1: 136–158 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Young, James (1866). Life of John Welsh, Minister of Ayr. Edinburgh: J. Maclaren. Retrieved 2023-12-10.