1544 in Scotland

Events from 1544 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents Monarch – Mary, Queen of Scots, and Regent Arran

Events 7 May – Burning of Edinburgh, the first action of the Rough Wooing.Marcus Merriman, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell, 2000), p. 144. 16 March – Battle of Glasgow (1544) 6 July – Lady Margaret Douglas marries Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox in London. July – Battle of the Shirts in the Great Glen.

Births 15 August – Peter Young (tutor), tutor to James VI and I. 1 September – John Gordon (bishop, born 1544)

Deaths April – Robert Cairncross, Bishop.

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