1578 in Scotland

Events from the year 1578 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents Monarch – James VI Regent Morton

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 February – Archibald Ruthven.Thomas Alfred Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 62. 7 March – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox 17 March – John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis.David Reid, History of the House of Angus, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: STS, 2005), pp. 242–3. 14 April – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Denmark (born ) 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

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