{"id":156,"date":"2015-02-08T16:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=156"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:59:28","slug":"mary-queen-of-scots-chronology-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/tudor\/relative\/mary-queen-of-scots-chronology-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Queen of Scots Chronology & Timeline – 1542 to 1587"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miniature
\n1542<\/strong>
\n8 December; Mary Stuart<\/a> is born at Linlithgow Palace
\n14 December; James V, King of Scots, Mary’s father, dies at 31<\/p>\n

1543<\/strong>
\nMary crowned Queen of Scots<\/p>\n

1546<\/strong>
\nCardinal Beaton is murdered; ascendancy of pro-French party<\/p>\n

1547<\/strong>
\nJanuary; King Henry VIII<\/a> of England dies
\nMarch; King Francis I of France dies
\n10 September; battle of Pinkie; Scots defeated by English forces led by duke of Somerset; new French king, Henry II, sends troops and money to Scotland; Mary is betrothed to Henry II’s heir Francis, dauphin of France<\/p>\n

1548<\/strong>
\nAugust; Mary sent to France<\/p>\n

1550<\/strong>
\nMary’s mother, Mary of Guise, visits her in France<\/p>\n

1554<\/strong>
\nMary of Guise is officially named Regent in Scotland<\/p>\n

1558<\/strong>
\nFifteen-year-old Mary marries the 14-year-old Francis, dauphin of France, in Paris
\nQueen Mary I<\/a> of England dies and Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen
\nMary’s father-in-law quarters her arms with those of England, offending Elizabeth<\/p>\n

1559<\/strong>
\nDeath of King Henry II of France; Francis and Mary are crowned king and queen of France<\/p>\n

1560<\/strong>
\nJune; Mary of Guise passes away in Scotland
\nDecember; Mary’s husband, Francis, Mary’s husband, passes away<\/p>\n

1561<\/strong>
\nMary returns to Scotland<\/p>\n

1562<\/strong> Northern campaign and visit to Inverness; aged 19<\/p>\n

1563<\/strong> Mary visits Inveraray,Dunure Castle, Dumfries, and Peebles; aged 20<\/p>\n

1564<\/strong> Mary hunts near Blair Atholl, Tayside; aged 21<\/p>\n

1565<\/strong> Mary marries her 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley; aged 22<\/p>\n

1566<\/strong> Mary’s Piedmontese secretary, David Riccio\/Rizzio, is murdered; Mary’s only child born (James, later king of Scotland and England); aged 23<\/p>\n

1567<\/strong> Mary’s husband, Lord Darnley, murdered; Mary weds James Hepburn, the 30-year-old Earl of Bothwell; the Carberry Hill confrontation; Mary is imprisoned at Lochleven Castle; Mary’s one-year-old son James<\/a> is crowned as James VI of Scotland; aged 24<\/p>\n

1568<\/strong> Mary escapes from Lochleven Castle; Battle of Langside, Glasgow; Mary flees to England; aged 25<\/p>\n

1568-87<\/strong> Mary is held captive in various English prisons; aged 25-44<\/p>\n

1569<\/strong> Elizabeth exonerates Mary from the charges made against her; aged 26<\/p>\n

1578<\/strong> Mary’s third husband, the Earl of Bothwell (age 41), dies in a prison in Denmark; aged 35<\/p>\n

1580<\/strong> Mary writes Essay on Adversity in prison; aged 37<\/p>\n

1586<\/strong> Mary is tried for conspiring to kill Elizabeth; aged 43<\/p>\n

1587<\/strong> on 8 February, Mary is executed<\/a> in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire<\/p>\n

1603<\/strong> Queen Elizabeth I dies<\/a> in March & Mary’s only child, James VI of Scotland, becomes James I of England. He is the first King of both Scotland and England. He moves his mother’s body to Westminster Abbey and has a grand monument built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1542 8 December; Mary Stuart is born at Linlithgow Palace 14 December; James V, King of Scots, Mary’s father, dies at 31 1543 Mary crowned Queen of Scots 1546 Cardinal Beaton is murdered; ascendancy of pro-French party 1547 January; King Henry VIII of England dies March; King Francis I of France dies 10 September; battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}