Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (TRIH ep 585, part 2)
1558 · Resource
This episode traces Mary Stuart's transformation from a five-year-old Scottish queen-in-exile to a glamorous figure at the French court, her marriage to the Dauphin (Francis), and the geopolitical ambitions of her Guise relatives.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1558
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)