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The Scots lose the Battle of Solway Moss, north of Carlisle, and James V gets wounded.
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Mary was born
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James V dies age 30 from his wound that he got at the battle of Solway Moss.
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Treaties of Greenwich: Henry VIII arranges for Mary to marry his son, Prince Edward of England. Scottish Parliament rejects the Treaties of Greenwich.
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9 September 1543 Mary is crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle at the age of nine months.
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Henry VIII starts a series of attacks called "rough wooing" so that they will agree to the marriage of his son to Mary Queen of Scots. Armies invade from the south and from the sea near Edinburgh.
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Henry VIII of England dies, and his son becomes King of England
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31 July 1547French naval forces in support of Mary Queen of Scots bombard St Andrews Castle and capture the Protestant rebels. These include John Knox who is sent to become a galley slave.
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A large English army with naval support meets and beats the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie, a little to the east of Edinburgh. The English move on to occupy Edinburgh though not its castle. They bombard Dundee destroying most of it.
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16 June 1548 A large French army lands at Leith to support the Scots following an agreement that Mary Queen of Scots, still only five, would marry Francois, eldest son of King Henri II of France. They besiege the English at Haddington.
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A French fleet rescues Mary Queen of Scots, from Dumbarton and returns with her to France.
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Mary and the Dauphin Francis marry at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on a Sunday.
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Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England. Though her parent’s married when Henry VIII's still hadn’t divorced his other wife so is in the view of the Catholic Church, Elizabeth is illegitimate. So in Catholic eyes, especially in Scotland and France, Mary Queen of Scots is the rightful claimant to the English crown.
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Francis II becomes King of France with Mary his Queen.
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Mary’s mother dies
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Francis II dies.
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In Scotland Mary announces that she will allow Protestants to continue to worship, as they like, although she remains a Roman Catholic.
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Mary leaves France and returns to Scotland.
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Mary marries her cousin Henry, Lord Darnley.
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Mary leads her troops to Edinburgh.
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Riccio is murdered
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Birth of Charles James VI in Edinburgh Castle
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At 2am Monday at Kirk o’ Field Darnley is murdered
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Bothwell if found not guilty of Darnley’s murder
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Bothwell proposes to Mary and she rufuses
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Bothwell kidnaps Mary from Edinburgh and takes her to Dunbar Castle and threatens her..Mary marries Bothwell
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Mary surrenders to her enemies at Carberry Hill. Mary is imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle
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Mary is forced to abdicate in favour of her son
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Mary’s son is crowned King James VI of Scotland only 1 year old
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Mary escapes from Loch Leven near Kinross gathers an army and moves towards Dumbarton Castle.
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Mary’s army is defeated by a much smaller force under the Regent, the Earl of Moray, at the Battle of Langside, now part of Glassgow
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Mary flees to England.Conference meets to consider Mary’s part in Darnley’s murder
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16 1569Northern Rebellion: Catholic rebellion in northern England to free Mary
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Regnans in Excelsis was a papal bull Announced on the 25th Febuary 1570 by Pope Pius V declaring "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be a heretic and releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her and excommunicating any that obeyed her orders.’
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Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I
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Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk is executed for his part in the Ridolfi Plot
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Throckmorton Plot
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Mary has a new jailer, Amyas Paulet
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Mary is arrested after writing a letter approving of a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth
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Mary is tried for treason at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire and is found guilty of plotting Elizabeth’s death.
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8am on Wednesday Mary was executed at Fotheringhay.
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At Wednesday 2:am Mary wrote her last letter to her former brother-in-law, King Henry III of France.
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Spanish Armanda is defeated
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Death of Elizabeth I. James VI, Mary’s son, becomes King James I of England
