Scotland's Pages - Scotland's Written History

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• 1950-2000

1596-1610
Balfour's 'Album Amicorum'.

1603
Union of the Crowns: James VI of Scotland inherits the English throne.

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1603 Death of Elizabeth I.

1611
The King James Bible.

1614
Napier's Logarithms.

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1618 Defenestration of Prague during Protestant revolt: prelude to the Thirty Years War.

1625
Death of James VI and I.

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1620 Pilgrim fathers land in New England.

1633
Charles I's Scottish Coronation.

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1632 Building of Taj Mahal begins at Agra.
1633-1637 Tulip-mania in the Netherlands.

1637
Riots in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, against the imposition of an English-style prayer book.

1638
Signing of National Covenant: symbol of defiance against the policies of Charles I.

1638
The National Covenant.

1643
Solemn League and Covenant: Scots ally with Parliament against the King.

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1642 Outbreak of civil war between King and English Parliament.

1644
Marquis of Montrose's year of victories against the Covenanters.

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1644 Royalists defeated in England at Marston Moor and Naseby.

1649
Charles II proclaimed King by the Scots.

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1649 The Regicide: Charles I executed at Whitehall.