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Events relating to scotland
A casket of letters seems to incriminate Mary Queen of Scots herself in the murder of her husband, Darnley
The events of this year give the Protestant nobility the occasion and opportunity of deposing Mary Queen of Scots
On the removal of Mary from the Scottish throne, her one-year-old son succeeds her as James VI
Mary Queen of Scots flees across the border to seek the help of her English cousin, Elizabeth, but finds herself kept under close guard
A rebellion in the north of England aims to put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne
Roberto di Ridolfi, a Florentine banker, coordinates a scheme to win the English throne for Mary Queen of Scots
Anthony Babington is involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne
Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle
James VI of Scotland argues in an anonymous book that kings, appointed by God, are above human law
James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England
The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland
The British king James I launches a blistering attack on the smoking of tobacco, which he considers a loathsome custom
On the death of his father, James VI and I, Charles I becomes king of England and Scotland
Charles I and his archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, attempt to impose the full Anglican hierarchy on presbyterian Scotland
A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland
Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops
Covenanters seize control of Edinburgh and other Scottish towns, launching the conflict with England known as the Bishops' War
In need of funds for the Bishops' War in Scotland, Charles I summons parliament to Westminster
Charles I puts himself in the hands of a Scottish army, opposed at the time to the English parliament
The Scottish army holding Charles I makes peace with parliament, and hands the king to parliamentary commissioners
Charles I comes to a secret arrangement with a group of Covenanters in Scotland, winning their support
Scottish Covenanters invade England in support of the English king, Charles I, in his struggle against parliament
Parliamentary forces defeat the Scottish invaders and suppress other new outbreaks of royalist support
Charles II, in the Hague, inherits the English and Scottish thrones of his executed father, Charles I
Charles II returns to Scotland and is crowned king of Scots in the traditional manner at Scone
