1544 in Scotland
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Events from 1544 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 7 May – Burning of Edinburgh, the first action of the Rough Wooing.[1]
- 16 March – Battle of Glasgow (1544)
- 6 July – Lady Margaret Douglas marries Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox in London.
- July – Battle of the Shirts in the Great Glen.
Births
[edit]- 15 August – Peter Young (tutor), tutor to James VI and I.
- 1 September – John Gordon (bishop, born 1544)
Deaths
[edit]- April – Robert Cairncross, Bishop.
References
[edit]- ^ Marcus Merriman, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell, 2000), p. 144.
