1589 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1589 Events from the year 1589 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch – James VI Events 20 August – Anne of Denmark marries James VI by proxy at Kronborg Castle. James's proxy George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal made speeches and gave her a jewel.Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (Boydell, 2019), p. 50. 22 October – James VI sails from Leith in the James Royal to meet Anne of Denmark in Norway.Clare Jackson, The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI and I (Allen Lane, 2025), p. 1115. 23 November – James VI and Anne of Denmark marry formally at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo Golf is played on Glasgow Green Births 9 December – John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown (died 1650) William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas (died 1660) James King, 1st Lord Eythin, soldier (died 1652 in Sweden) Probable – George Jamesone, portrait painter (died 1644)George Jamesone, 1589 / 1590 - 1644. Portrait painter (Self-portrait) http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/J/5402/artist_name/George%20Jamesone/record_id/2742# www.nationalgalleries.org National Galleries Scotland https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140746/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/J/5402/artist_name/George%20Jamesone/record_id/2742# 13 April 2014 dead Deaths February James Halyburton, Protestant reformer (born 1518) Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay, Confederate (born 1521) 7 September – Jane Kennedy, companion of Mary, Queen of Scots (drowned while making ferry crossing across the Forth to greet the new queen, Anne of Denmark)Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (1936), p. 165–6, letters of William Ashby to Walsingham and William Cecil. 28 December – George Douglas, Bishop of Moray See also Timeline of Scottish history References 1589 Category:Years of the 16th century in Scotland Scotland