1575 in Scotland
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Events from 1575 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 5 March – Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray returns the Great H of Scotland to Regent Morton.[1]
 - 7 July – Raid of the Redeswire, near Carter Bar, a border incident.
 - November – During Regent Morton's justice ayre at Dumfries, Lord John and Claud Hamilton hold a horse race against English borderers at Solway sands.[2]
 
Births
[edit]- 12 August – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn
 - David Calderwood, historian, at Dalkeith
 - William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn
 
Deaths
[edit]- 22 January – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, at Hamilton Palace.[3]
 - June – Marion Ogilvy at Melgund Castle.[4]
 - 11 November – Alexander Gordon (bishop of Galloway)
 - Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home
 
References
[edit]- ^ Jade Scott, "Mary Queen of Jewels", History Today, 70:10 (October 2024), pp. 59–60: HMC 6th Report & Appendix: Moray (London, 1877), p. 658
 - ^ George R. Hewitt, Scotland Under Morton, 1572–80 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982), p. 131–132: Historie of King James the Sext (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 158.
 - ^ Historie of King James the Sext (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 151.
 - ^ Margaret H. B. Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Edinburgh: James Thin, 1987), p. 19.
 
