Scottish History

Main

Union of the Crown

1603

Politics

James IV marries Margaret Tudor

1503

Defeat at Flodden, James IV, James V succeeds

1513

James v's Majority

1528

James V marries Mary de Guise

1537

English defeat Scots as Solway Moss

1542

Mary succeeds as infant

1542

English defeat at Pinkie

1548

Begin the english occupation of Southern Scotland

English withdraw

1550

Mary of Guise regent

1554

French occupation of Scotland

1559

Maary Overthrown, James VI succeeds, Civil Wars

1559

English drive French out

1560

Mary Returns from France

1561

Kings party wins civil war

1573

James effective Majority

1585

Stirling Coup against Arran

1585

Alliance with England

1586

Attempted coup by presbyterians

1594

Catholic Earls seek power

1596

Attempt to Colonise Isle of Lewis

1598 - 1610

Boarder raiders supressed

1603 - 1611

Union of Crowns

1603

Macdonalds Uprising in Kintyre defeated

1614

Thirty years war

1618 - 1648

Charles I succeeds

1625

Charles Visits Scotland

1633

Covenanters

1638 - 1651

Scottish Revolution (National Covenant)

1638

English Civil War

1642 - 1646

Covenanters in england

1643

Solemn League and Covenant

Montrose uprising

1644 - 1645

English occupation of Scotland

1651 - 1660

Restoration of Charles II

1660

Killing Times

1684 - 1685

Repression of Covenanters increase

James II Succeeds

1685

Glorious Revolution in England

1688

Jacobite Uprising 1689

1689

James deposed in Favor of WIlliam and Mary

1689

Massacre of Glencoe

1692

Anne succeeds

1702

Parliamentary Union

1707

George I succeeds

1714

Jacobite Uprising 1715

1715

George II

1727

George II succeeds

1727

Jacobite Uprising 1745

1745 - 1746

Religion

Crown nominate bishops

1526

Statute allowing the crown not the pope to nominate bishops and monastic heads

First Protsitant Martyr

1528

Repression of Protestants

1530 - 1540

Royal taxation of the church

1531

Arran's Godly fit

1543

Brief gov flirtation with protantism

Protestants seize St. Andrews Castle

1546

Reform attempts by church councils

1549 - 1559

Officially Protistant

1560

Outlaw of Catholic worship by Reformation Parliament.

First Book of Discipline

1578

Presbyteries established; Conflict with Bishops

1580

First major witchcraft panic

1590 - 1591

Golden act gives power to presbyteries

1592

Bishops re-established

1600 - 1610

Five acts of Perth

1618

Conteroversial religious ceremonies

New Prayer Books

1637

National Covenant

1638

Solemn League and Covenant with England

1643

Bishops re-re-established

1661

Episcopalians begin to organise a separate church

1690 - 1699

Bishops Abolished

1698

Church presbyterian

Church of Scotland garunteed

1707

Last act of the parliament of Scotland guarantees the privileges of the church

Non presbyterian worship legal

1711

Toleration act

1712

Church of Scotland and hericy

1729

Church of Scotland prosecutes Professor John Simson of Glasgow for heresy

Formation of the Associate Presbytery

1733

Cambuslang Evangelical revival

1742

Government

Coutr of sessions becomes an instution

1532

Privy Council becomes an instution

1545

Parlement rejects reformed land tax

1556

Pope's authority rejected

1560

Commissary courts established

1564

Acts of parliament printed

1566

Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots

1579

George Buchanan, constitutionalist

Sort out royal finances

1596 - 1598

Octavians

Customs duties on imports

1597

Act anent feuding

1598

bloodfeuds to be outlawed

Parliament rejects reformed land tax

1600

Customs rates increased

1612

Land registry established

1617

First state paid regiment raised

1620

Charles revocation

1625

sets out to restructure landholdings comined tithes and rent and increases royal revenue

Scottish revolution nullifies royal power

1638

Covenanters rais large armies

1639

Parliament governs without the king

1640 - 1649

Lex rex

1644

samuel rutherford's

english occupation

1651

Treasury commission established

1667

Parlement deposes monarch and appoints a new one

1689

company of scotland

1695

Union of Parliaments

1707

Malt tax at higher rate

1725

Heritable jurisdictions abolished

1747

Economy and Society

Alination of church land

1530 - 1580

Coal and salt become significant

1580

Famine 1

1580 - 1590

Famines

1595 - 1600

Overseas trade increases

1600

English colonize north america

Lime fertlizer

1610

Famines

1620 - 1625

Nova Scotia colony

1625 - 1630

Manufactories act (support industry

1641

Trade increase. Royal burghs monoply abolished

1672

bank of Scotland

1695

Company of Scotland

1695

Famines

1695 - 1700

Darien Scheme

1698 - 1700

Union; access to English colonies

1707

Royal bank of scotland

1727

Increas in tobacco trade and linen manufacture

1740 - 1749

Culture

WIlliam Dunbar court poet

1500

First book printed in scotland

1507

Falkland palace and Stirling Castle

1530

Sir David Lindasy

1550

James VI poet circle

1580 - 1603

George Buchanan's History of Scotland

1582

University of Edinburgh founded

1583

Spread of Scottish renisance chateau

1620

Altas Nocus

1654

Holyrood Palace/ Adaption of Cartesian Science

1670

William adam with prescise classical models

1710

David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature

1739 - 1740