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1591 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1591 in the
Kingdom of Scotland
.
←
1590
1589
1588
1587
1586
1591
in
Scotland
→
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596
Centuries:
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
Decades:
1570s
1580s
1590s
1600s
1610s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1591 in:
England
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
James VI
Events
edit
February –
Brian O'Rourke
, rebel lord of West
Bréifne
in Ireland, seeks
right of asylum
in Scotland
3 April –
Brian O'Rourke
is arrested in
Glasgow
and delivered to the English
27 December –
Raid of Holyrood
: The rebel
Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell
breaks into Holyroodhouse
[1]
December –
Newes from Scotland – declaring the damnable life and death of Dr. John Fian
, likely compiled by
James Carmichael
, is published in London
Burgh
of
Cockenzie
created by
James VI
Canongate Tolbooth
built in Edinburgh
Births
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March –
Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay
, soldier (died 1649)
Adam Steuart
, philosopher (died 1645 in Leiden)
Deaths
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28 January –
Agnes Sampson
, executed as a witch
16 December – Dr.
John Fian
, executed as a sorcerer
John Erskine of Dun
, religious reformer (born 1509)
Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree
(born c.1521)
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
Edward Cowan, 'Darker vision of the Scottish renaissance',
Renaissance & Reformation in Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1983), pp. 132-134.