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His half-brother, Oswiu of Bernicia, marries Princess Rhiainfelt, heiress of North Rheged (\"Old North\"). Northumbria embraces North Rheged in a peaceful takeover, and Oswiu becomes a sub-king (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557443#Britain", "title": "638", "revid": 1369557443, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1128, "year_label": "1128 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by King David I of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348046025#Religion", "title": "1128", "revid": 1348046025, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1216, "year_label": "1216 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – First Barons' War: The English army, led by John, King of England (\"Lackland\"), sacks the town of Berwick-on-Tweed and raids southern Scotland. John pushes up towards Edinburgh over a ten-day period. On his return, he puts down a revolt in East Anglia. On March 24, he arrives at Hertford to deal with the challenge of a coming French invasion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371079230#Europe", "title": "1216", "revid": 1371079230, "section": "Events › By continent › Europe"}}, {"year": 1298, "year_label": "1298 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – First War of Scottish Independence: King Edward I of England (\"Longshanks\") marches from Newcastle upon Tyne with his household to Alnwick and then by way of Chillingham to Roxburgh in Scotland, where he joins the army in July. He proceeds to Lauderdale and encamps at Kirkliston, to the west of Edinburgh, where he remains from July 15 to July 20. The army is accompanied by a long train of supply wagons. Meanwhile, English supply ships, delayed by bad weather, bring food to Leith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071319#British_Isles", "title": "1298", "revid": 1363071319, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1314, "year_label": "1314 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 19", "text": "June 19 – English forces march to the environs of Edinburgh; here Edward II waits for the wagon train of over 200 baggage and supply wagons – which straggle behind the long columns, to catch up. At the nearby port of Leith, English supply ships land stores for the army – who will be well rested before the 35 mi march that will bring them to Stirling Castle, before the deadline of June 24.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434387#April_–_June", "title": "1314", "revid": 1373434387, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1385, "year_label": "1385 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – Officials in the Kingdom of Scotland discover that 700 pounds sterling of bullion has been taken from the customs collectors of Edinburgh by John Stewart, the Earl of Carrick, who diverted the funds while acting as Guardian of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362439687#January–March", "title": "1385", "revid": 1362439687, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1385, "year_label": "1385 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – From the port of Sluis (now in the Netherlands), the Kingdom of France dispatches a fleet of ships, carrying an army of 1,315 soldiers, 300 crossbowmen and 200 assistants, to aid the Kingdom of Scotland in defense of an invasion by the Kingdom of England. The fleet arrives at the Scottish port of Leith, near Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, on March 25.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362439687#January–March", "title": "1385", "revid": 1362439687, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1385, "year_label": "1385 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – King Richard II of England begins an invasion of Scotland. The English burn Holyrood and Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362439687#July–September", "title": "1385", "revid": 1362439687, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1390, "year_label": "1390 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – A treaty is signed between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of France at Edinburgh and witnessed by Walter Forrester.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631980#October–December", "title": "1390", "revid": 1371631980, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1400, "year_label": "1400 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – Writing from Newcastle upon Tyne to Scotland's King Robert III, England's King Henry IV sends a demand that King Robert meet him \"on Monday the 23rd of this present month of August, at Edinburgh, where, for this reason and for the peace of tranquility of the realms of England and Scotland, we intend to be,\" for Robert \"to perform the obligation which you owe us\" as \"overlords of Scotland and of its kings in all temporal matters pertaining to them...\" King Henry warns that \"considering the effusion of Christian blood and other dangers and losses which may occur if you do not comply with our wishes, you will be present to render us homage and take the oath of fealty.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369029011#July–September", "title": "1400", "revid": 1369029011, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1400, "year_label": "1400 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – King Henry IV leads the English Army into Scotland, after receiving no answer from Scotland's King Robert III to his August 6 demand. The troops reach Haddington, East Lothian the next day and at Leith, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, by August 18. As historian James Hamilton Wylie will note almost 500 years later, \"the walls of Edinburgh did not fall before this ram's-horn blast, and August 23rd came and went without the required homage or recognition.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369029011#July–September", "title": "1400", "revid": 1369029011, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1437, "year_label": "1437 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, six-year old Prince James is crowned as James II of Scotland by Pope Eugene IV. For the security of the crown, the capital of Scotland is moved from Dunfermline to Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358546204#January–March", "title": "1437", "revid": 1358546204, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1449, "year_label": "1449 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – King James II of Scotland marries Mary of Guelders at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365251873#July–September", "title": "1449", "revid": 1365251873, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1452, "year_label": "1452 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Edinburgh officially becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355060030#Date_unknown", "title": "1452", "revid": 1355060030, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1467, "year_label": "1467 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – King James III of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous laws passed by the Scottish Parliament in its six day session at Edinburgh, including the Ferries Act requiring the ramps of ferry boats be improved to support the weight of horses being shipped (\"That briggis of buirdis be maide at ferryis for the eis of schipping of hors\") and three acts relating to coins and currency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352890331#October–December", "title": "1467", "revid": 1352890331, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1482, "year_label": "1482 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – In the Anglo-Scottish Wars, Richard, Duke of Gloucester invades Scotland, and captures Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368493356#July–September", "title": "1482", "revid": 1368493356, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1490, "year_label": "1490 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – The Scottish Parliament opens in Edinburgh to address matters of lands confiscated in the year before.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365746432#January–March", "title": "1490", "revid": 1365746432, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1503, "year_label": "1503 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366510845#July–September", "title": "1503", "revid": 1366510845, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1528, "year_label": "1528 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – King James V of Scotland, 16, held captive for more than two years under the guardianship of the Earl of Angus, is able to escape from Edinburgh to Stirling after several failed rescue attempts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369577446#April–June", "title": "1528", "revid": 1369577446, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Princess Madeleine of Valois, the 16-year-old daughter of François I, King of France, is married to King James V of Scotland in a ceremony at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Already in ill health at the time of the marriage, Madaleine lives only six more months before dying at the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on July 7.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362632656#January–March", "title": "1537", "revid": 1362632656, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1544, "year_label": "1544 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, with an English army, captures Leith and Edinburgh from the Kingdom of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359947848#April–June", "title": "1544", "revid": 1359947848, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1547, "year_label": "1547 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369359234#July–September", "title": "1547", "revid": 1369359234, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1547, "year_label": "1547 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 10", "text": "10 September – Battle of Pinkie (Cleugh): An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The great Highland bagpipe is perhaps heard in the field. The English seize Edinburgh and Hume Castle is surrendered to them by Mariotta Haliburton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362632817#Events", "title": "1547 in Scotland", "revid": 1362632817, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1559, "year_label": "1559 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Articles of Leith are signed in Edinburgh between the Protestant Lords of the Congregation and the Roman Catholic representatives of the Scottish regent, Mary of Guise, the widow of King James V, who is ruling on behalf of her daughter, the 17-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots. The Lords, who have occupied Edinburgh since June, withdraw their troops in return for the Scottish crown's agreement to not interfere with the practice of Protestantism in Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366794840#July–September", "title": "1559", "revid": 1366794840, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – Chaseabout Raid: Moray and at least 1,000 of his rebels arrive in Edinburgh for a confrontation with the Scottish crown. After cannon fire from Edinburgh Castle, the rebels retreat toward England to seek help. The rebellion is ended by the end of September.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323811827#July–September", "title": "1565", "revid": 1323811827, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1567, "year_label": "1567 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 10", "text": "10 February – Murder of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, at the Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh by gunpowder explosion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353736671#Events", "title": "1567 in Scotland", "revid": 1353736671, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1567, "year_label": "1567 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 10", "text": "February 10 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered at the Provost's House in Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362147494#January–March", "title": "1567", "revid": 1362147494, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1567, "year_label": "1567 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Bothwell takes Mary prisoner at his castle at Dunbar after preventing her from traveling from her palace to Edinburgh, then rapes her.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362147494#April–June", "title": "1567", "revid": 1362147494, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1582, "year_label": "1582 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "George Buchanan's History of Scotland (Rerum Scoticarum Historia) is first published, in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362253030#Events", "title": "1582 in Scotland", "revid": 1362253030, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1590, "year_label": "1590 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – Anne of Denmark is crowned queen consort of Scotland, at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369164716#April–June", "title": "1590", "revid": 1369164716, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell leads the attack on the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. Having been alerted by a premature attack on the palace's prison, King James VI of Scotland and Queen Anne are able to take refuge within the castle, and the raid fails. Seven of Bothwell's men are subsequently captured and hanged.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358075583#October–December", "title": "1591", "revid": 1358075583, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – Queen Elizabeth of England appoints George Nicholson as the English Resident in Scotland, the London's chief diplomatic official to Edinburgh, with a letter of accreditation for Nicholson to present to King James VI of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801855#October–December", "title": "1597", "revid": 1362801855, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "English mathematician Henry Briggs goes to Edinburgh, to show John Napier his efficient method of finding logarithms, by the continued extraction of square roots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1633, "year_label": "1633 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, according to Anglican rite in his first visit to Scotland since early childhood, although he has been Scottish monarch since 1625.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369169348#April–June", "title": "1633", "revid": 1369169348, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1637, "year_label": "1637 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Introduction of a new Scottish Prayer Book is met with widespread demonstrations, notably that of Jenny Geddes at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, who is said to have thrown a stool at the Dean's head.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339166592#July–September", "title": "1637", "revid": 1339166592, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 28", "text": "February 28 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in opposition to changes to the Church of Scotland proposed by King Charles I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#January–March", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December", "text": "December – Bubonic plague breaks out in Edinburgh (Scotland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560996#October–December", "title": "1644", "revid": 1369560996, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1645, "year_label": "1645 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Fearing the spread of the Black Death (plague), Edinburgh Town Council prohibits all gatherings except weddings and funerals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370309626#January–March", "title": "1645", "revid": 1370309626, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1645, "year_label": "1645 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be moved forward, so that students can leave the city (on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370309626#April–June", "title": "1645", "revid": 1370309626, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – In Edinburgh, the Scottish Parliament declares Prince Charles, son of the recently executed King Charles I, as King Charles II of Scotland. Prince Charles, at the time, is at sea in charge of royalist forces fighting to drive Oliver Cromwell from the British Isles. Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367892628#January–March", "title": "1649", "revid": 1367892628, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – Having completed his invasion of Ireland, England's General Oliver Cromwell begins the war against the Kingdom of Scotland, crossing from Northumberland at Berwick-upon-Tweed into Berwickshire, and leads troops toward Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373388330#July–September", "title": "1650", "revid": 1373388330, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1652, "year_label": "1652 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 4", "text": "February 4 – At Edinburgh, the parliamentary commissioners of the Commonwealth of England proclaim the Tender of Union to be in force in Scotland, annexing the Scottish nation with the concession that Scotland would have 30 representatives in the parliament of the English Commonwealth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367149733#January–March", "title": "1652", "revid": 1367149733, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1654, "year_label": "1654 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 5", "text": "May 5 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, officially the Act of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland, is proclaimed at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365981814#April–June", "title": "1654", "revid": 1365981814, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – The Marquess of Argyll, one of the first of the Scottish-born people sentenced to death as a regicide for his role in the conviction and execution of King Charles I of England and Scotland in 1649, is beheaded at the Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh using the \"Scottish Maiden,\" almost immediately after his conviction of collaboration with the government of Oliver Cromwell. His head is then placed on a spike outside the prison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986603#April–June", "title": "1661", "revid": 1365986603, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – The Parliament of Scotland holds its first new session in six years (although two Conventions of Estates had been held briefly in 1665 and 1667). 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