1590s in Scotland

none September 2019 September 2019 1580s | 1590s | 1600s This article lists events from the 1590s in Scotland. Incumbents Monarch of Scotland James VI (1567–1625) Duke of Rothesay, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, etc. Henry Frederick Stuart (1594–1612) Events 1590 Entry and coronation of Anne of Denmark.Maureen M. Meikle, 'Anna Of Denmark’s Coronation And Entry Into Edinburgh', Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (Brill, 2008), p. 290. The North Berwick witch trials begin.A royal obsession with black magic started Europe's most brutal witch hunts https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/10/royal-obsession-black-magic-started-europes-most-brutal-witch National Geographic 23 November 2020 en-gb 17 October 2019 1592 Margaret Vinstarr plans the escape of her lover John Wemyss of Logie from Dalkeith Palace.Thomas Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, vol. 2 (Odense, 1988), pp. 296-7. 1594 The christening of Prince Henry is celebrated at Stirling Castle with a tournament, a feast, and a masque.Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue: 1590-1597, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), p. 247. 1597 King James VI publishes his Daemonologie, detailing his reflections and studies on the matter of how to deal with witchcraft.King James IV and I’s Demonology, 1597 https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/king-james-vi-and-is-demonology-1597 The British Library 14 October 2017 en 1598 William Schaw issues the first of the Schaw Statutes of masonry, the Second Statute following in 1599.Stevenson David The Origins of Freemasonry 1988 Cambridge University Press 9780521396547 34–51 References Category:1590 in Scotland Category:1591 in Scotland Category:1592 in Scotland Category:1593 in Scotland Category:1594 in Scotland Category:1595 in Scotland Category:1596 in Scotland Category:1597 in Scotland Category:1598 in Scotland Category:1599 in Scotland