1590s in Scotland

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This article lists events from the 1590s in Scotland.

Incumbents Monarch of Scotland James VI (1567–1625) Duke of Rothesay, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, etc. Henry Frederick Stuart (1594–1612)

Events

1590 Entry and coronation of Anne of Denmark.Maureen M. Meikle, 'Anna Of Denmark’s Coronation And Entry Into Edinburgh', Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (Brill, 2008), p. 290. The North Berwick witch trials begin.

1592 Margaret Vinstarr plans the escape of her lover John Wemyss of Logie from Dalkeith Palace.Thomas Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, vol. 2 (Odense, 1988), pp. 296-7.

1594 The christening of Prince Henry is celebrated at Stirling Castle with a tournament, a feast, and a masque.Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue: 1590-1597, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), p. 247.

1597 King James VI publishes his Daemonologie, detailing his reflections and studies on the matter of how to deal with witchcraft.

1598 William Schaw issues the first of the Schaw Statutes of masonry, the Second Statute following in 1599.

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