1568 in Scotland

none 1568 Events from 1568 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch – James VI Regent: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Events 2 May – The deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle. 13 May – Marian civil war: Battle of Langside – The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her half-brother.Peter G. B. McNeill Hector L. MacQueen Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 https://books.google.com/books?id=qs1-AAAAMAAJ 1996 Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh 978-0-9503904-1-3 134 16 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees across the Solway Firth from Scotland to EnglandHolmes P. J. Mary Stewart in England The Innes Review 1987 38 38 195–218 10.3366/inr.1987.38.38.195 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.1987.38.38.195?journalCode=inr 2023-12-05 subscription but on May 19 is placed in custody in Carlisle Castle on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I of England, her cousin. 10 June – Regent Moray musters forces at Biggar for a march on Dumfries. 16 June – Kenmure Castle, the home of John Gordon of Lochinvar, is destroyed by Moray's army. October – Regent Moray shows Mary's "casket letters" at a conference in York headed by the Duke of Norfolk, and again at Westminster Palace on 7 December Arts and literature Edinburgh merchant George Bannatyne begins compiling the Bannatyne Manuscript while confined to his home due to plague.Brown J. T. T. 1904 The Bannatyne Manuscript: A Sixteenth Century Poetical Miscellany. The Scottish Historical Review 1 136–158 Births John Row, ecclesiastical historian and Reformer (died 1646) William Couper (bishop) Approximate date – John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (died 1622 in England)Young James Life of John Welsh, Minister of Ayr 1866 J. Maclaren Edinburgh https://books.google.com/books?id=EEIFAAAAYAAJ&dq=John+Welsh+%221568%22&pg=PA9 2023-12-10 Deaths 6 June – Kenneth Mackenzie, 10th of Kintail William Baillie of Lamington, landowner References Category:1568 in Scotland Scotland