• Source: 1568 in Scotland

      • Events from 1568 in the Kingdom of Scotland.


      Incumbents


      Monarch – James VI
      Regent: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray


      Events


      2 May – The deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle.
      13 May – Marian civil war: Battle of Langside – The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
      16 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees across the Solway Firth from Scotland to England but on May 19 is placed in custody in Carlisle Castle on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I of England, her cousin.
      10 June – The Earl of Moray musters forces at Biggar for a march on Dumfries.
      October – The Earl of Moray shows Mary's "casket letters" at a conference in York headed by the Duke of Norfolk, and again at Westminster Palace on 7 December


      Arts and literature


      Edinburgh merchant George Bannatyne begins compiling the Bannatyne Manuscript while confined to his home due to plague.


      Births


      John Row, ecclesiastical historian and Reformer (died 1646)
      Approximate date – John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (died 1622 in England)


      Deaths


      William Baillie of Lamington, landowner


      References

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