Mary, Queen of Scots: Birth of a Legend (TRIH ep 584, part 1)
1542 · Resource
This episode launches a multi-part series on Mary, Queen of Scots. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open with a dramatic excerpt (from a Garrett Mattingly account) of Mary Stuart's 1587 execution and then survey her extraordinary life: born at Linlithgow in 1542, crowned at Stirling in 1543, and enmeshed in Scottish, English and continental politics.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1542
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)