Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (TRIH ep 588, part 5)
1567 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines the murder of Lord Darnley (10 February 1567) and the political fallout for Mary, Queen of Scots. Using John Guy's biography My Heart Is My Own as a primary framework, the hosts recount the sequence of events: Rizzio's earlier murder, Mary’s fraught marriage to Darnley, Darnley’s illness and isolation at Kirkfield, and the violent explosion that destroyed his lodging…
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Around 1567
- 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)