Mary, Queen of Scots was born on 8 December 1542 in Linlithgow Palace. Queen of Scotland from the age of six days, Mary became queen after the death of her father, James V. She was sent to France as a child and married the Dauphin, later Francis II, becoming briefly queen of France. After his death she returned to Scotland, where her Catholic faith and marriage to Lord Darnley, whose murder she was suspected of arranging, stirred up opposition. She was forced to abdicate in favor of her infant son, James VI, and fled to England, where Elizabeth I held her captive for almost two decades. Implicated in the Babington Plot, she was executed at Fotheringhay Castle.
Before and after
- 1542New Laws
- from 1542 to 1801Kingdom of Ireland
- 14 February 1542Founding of Guadalajara
- 15 October 1542Birth of Akbar
- 8 December 1542Birth of Mary, Queen of Scots
- from 1543 to 1687Scientific Revolution
- 1543De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- 1543Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- 1543Vesalius publishes De humani corporis fabrica
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 23 May 1568 to 30 January 1648Eighty Years' War
- from 25 April 1588 to 1 August 1588Spanish Armada
- 13 April 1598Edict of Nantes
- from 28 December 1688 to 1 January 1689Glorious Revolution
- from 22 February 1700 to 10 September 1721Great Northern War
- from 16 December 1740 to 18 October 1748War of the Austrian Succession
The era
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