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Events relating to scotland
The English finally accept a treaty, in Edinburgh, declaring that Robert de Bruce is king of a Scotland 'free and divided from the kingdom of England'
On the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David II becomes king of Scotland
On the death of his uncle, David II, Robert Stewart becomes king of Scotland as Robert II
On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland
Henry Percy leads a rebellion with Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, and flees to Scotland when it fails
On the death of his father, Robert III, James I becomes king of Scotland
Henry Percy invades England from Scotland, and is killed at the battle of Bramham Moor
On the death of his father, James I, James II becomes king of Scotland
On the death of his father, James II, James III becomes king of Scotland
Henry VI flees to Scotland, abandoning the kingdom to the usurping Edward IV
The Orkneys and Shetlands come into the possession of James III of Scotland with the dowry of Margaret of Denmark
On the death of his father, James III, James IV becomes king of Scotland
The marriage of James IV, king of Scotland, to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leads a century later to the Union of the Crowns
The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year
James IV of Scotland dies at Flodden, in the disastrous defeat of his army by the English
On the death of his father at Flodden, the one-year-old James V becomes king of Scotland
A one-week-old Scottish infant, daughter of James V, inherits the throne as Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots marries the heir to the French throne, who a year later succeeds as Francis II
With its strong French connection, the Scottish royal name of Stewart begins to be spelt Stuart (there being no 'w' in native French words)
John Knox returns to Scotland from Geneva and inspires the Protestants to march on Edinburgh
Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to Edinburgh, and to an inevitable clash with John Knox
Mary Queen of Scots marries her Catholic cousin, Henry Darnley
Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, David Rizzio, is dragged from her presence and stabbed to death
Mary Queen of Scots' husband Darnley is treacherously involved in the murder of her secretary, Rizzio
Darnley is murdered, almost certainly at the instigation of Mary Queen of Scots' lover, Bothwell, whom she marries just three months later
