‘mary queen of scots’

Event	Date
Mary of Guise, regent Queen of Scotland, is born	22nd November
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries her cousin	29th July
Queen Mary is forced to abdicate	24th July
Queen Mary’s husband escapes capture	15th June
James Douglas is beheaded by his own invention	2nd June
Cardinal David Beaton is assassinated at St Andrews	29th May
Conspirators assemble to murder Lord Darnley	9th February
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed	8th February

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24 January

Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born

08 September

John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead

04 December

First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published