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HOW IT WORKS
1598 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1598 in the
Kingdom of Scotland
.
←
1597
1596
1595
1594
1593
1598
in
Scotland
→
1599
1600
1601
1602
1603
Centuries:
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
Decades:
1570s
1580s
1590s
1600s
1610s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1598 in:
England
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
James VI
Events
edit
5 August –
Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart
on
Islay
: the
Clan Donald
defeats the
Clan Maclean
,
Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean
being killed.
28 December – Issue in Edinburgh by
William Schaw
,
Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland
and General Warden of the master stonemasons, of the
First Schaw Statutes
, "The Statutis and ordinananceis to be obseruit by all the maister maoissounis within this realme", significant in the development of
freemasonry
.
[1]
Gentleman Adventurers of Fife
awarded forfeited lands on the
Isle of Lewis
to colonise.
Raids on
Stornoway
.
[2]
Publication of
James VI's
The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
.
Robert Greene
's play
The Scottish History of James IV
(posthumously).
Births
edit
Elizabeth Bourchier
, later Elizabeth Cromwell, Lady Protectress of England, Scotland and Ireland (died
1665 in England
)
[3]
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
, politician and
Covenanter
(died
1662
)
[4]
James Lumsden
, soldier (died
1660
)
7 December –
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1680)
[5]
24 December –
Margaret Stuart
, royal princess (died
1600
)
Approximate date –
John Hepburn
, soldier of fortune (killed at siege of
Saverne
1636)
Deaths
edit
August –
Alexander Montgomerie
,
makar
and
outlaw
(born c.1550?)
13 August –
David Ferguson
, reformer
3 September –
John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir
,
Secretary of State
(born 1552)
Mary Beaton
, noblewoman (born 1543)
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
"First Schaw Statute of 1598"
(PDF)
. Archived from the original
(PDF)
on 13 April 2014
. Retrieved
6 June
2013
.
^
Haswell-Smith, Hamish (1996).
The Scottish Islands
. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 240–241.
ISBN
0-86241-579-9
.
^
"Stanford - Auden Bicknell".
[
permanent dead link
]
^
"John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun, 1598–1662".
BCW Project
. 12 December 2006
. Retrieved
11 April
2014
.
^
"Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)".
www.nationalgalleries.org
. National Galleries Scotland. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.