1567 in Scotland

none 1567 Events from 1567 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch – Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI Regent: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Events 10 February – Murder of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, at the Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh by gunpowder explosion.David Loades, Elizabeth I (London: National Archives, 2003), p. 69. 12 April – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, is acquitted on charges of murder in the killing of Lord Darnley. Upon acquittal he makes plans to become Mary's new husband. 20 April – Ainslie Tavern Bond signed in support of the Earl of Bothwell.Julian Goodare, "The Ainslie Bond", Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh, 2015), pp. 15, 301–319. 24 April – Bothwell takes Mary as a prisoner to Dunbar Castle after preventing her from travelling from Stirling Castle to Edinburgh, then rapes her. 15 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Earl of Bothwell, at Holyrood Palace.William Simpson The Reign of Elizabeth https://books.google.com/books?id=EbD7kmPBhLIC&pg=PA64 2001 Heinemann 978-0-435-32735-4 64 15 June – Battle of Carberry Hill: Mary is defeated by Scottish nobles and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.Michael Questier, Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Oxford, 2019), p. 62. 24 July – Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots (at Lochleven Castle), in favour of her 1-year-old son James VI.Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), p. 52. 29 July – Coronation of James VI at Stirling, Church of the Holy Rude.Lucinda H. S. Dean, "Crowning the Child", Sean McGlynn & Elena Woodacre, The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle, 2014), pp. 254–280. 12 December – The Scottish Parliament votes to approve the Accession and Coronation Act 1567 (Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation), confirming the abdication of Mary Queen of Scots in favor of her son James VI and his coronation as the legal ruler of Scotland.The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 2007, ed. by K.M. Brown, et al. (St Andrews University, 2007) Mary's half brother, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, is appointed as the regent to rule on behalf of the King (as Moray is absent from Scotland at this time, the Parliament appoints a committee of seven deputy regents to rule on on his behalf). Births William Stewart of Grandtully Deaths 10 February - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 23 June - John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland May - Robert Beaton of Creich References Category:1567 in Scotland Scotland