• Source: 1578 in Scotland

Events from the year 1578 in the Kingdom of Scotland.




Incumbents


Monarch – James VI




Events


Battle of the Spoiling Dyke at Trumpan on the Isle of Skye: the Clan MacLeod are victorious over the MacDonalds of Uist in a feud.




Births


Robert Boyd, Principal of the University of Glasgow (died 1627)
William Welwod, jurist (died 1622)
Gilbert Jack, philosopher (died 1628)




Deaths


14 April – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Denmark (born c. 1534)
May/September – Robert Richardson, lord treasurer
September/October – Alexander Hepburn, Bishop of Ross
James Douglas, 7th of Drumlanrig, baron




See also


Timeline of Scottish history




References

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