Reign of Mary, Queen of Scots
1542–1567 · Event
Queen at six days old, raised in France, Mary returns to rule a Protestant Scotland until murder, scandal and rebellion force her abdication.
On these timelines: Scotland, Master, Women in history, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
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)