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Short Biography of Mary Queen of Scots
Date of Birth: Born on 8 December 1542
Place of Birth : Mary Stuart was born at
Linlithgow Palace
Parents: Father - James V of Scotland
Mother:
Mary of Guise
Background Facts, Information & Ancestry :
Her grandmother was
Margaret Tudor ( sister of
King Henry VIII) and her grandfather was King James
IV of Scotland
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1542 |
December 8 :Mary Stuart is
born at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland the daughter
of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise
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1543 |
James IV dies and Mary Stuart
is crowned Queen of Scots |
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1548 |
The young Mary Stuart is sent
to France in preparation for a French royal marriage |
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1554 |
Mary of Guise is officially
named Regent in Scotland |
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1558 |
24 April 15 year old
Mary Stuart marries fourteen-year-old Francis,
dauphin of France and heir to the French throne
Her new father-in-law, King
Henry II of France, quarters her arms with those of
England
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1559 |
The old French King dies and
Francis II and Mary Queen of Scots are crowned king
and queen of France. Mary also lays claim to the
throne of England
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1560 |
22 February: Treaty of Berwick
between England and Scotland
June 11: Mary of Guise dies in
Scotland
Francis II the young new
husband also dies
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1561 |
August 19: Mary Stuart ( Mary
Queen of Scots ) returns to Scotland |
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1562 |
July 15: Elizabeth cancels a
planned meeting with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots
because of Mary’s continued attacks of French
Protestants. The two queens never meet
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1563 |
Claiming to the right of
succession in England |
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1565 |
Mary, aged 22, married
her 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley.
It quickly becomes apparent that Darnley is a
drunkard and licentious
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1566 |
March 9: The Murder of
David Rizzio, the secretary and confidante of Mary
June 19: Her only child is
born (James, later king of Scotland and England)
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1567 |
February 10: Murder of Lord
Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots
She turns to Bothwell for
protection, and then marries the 30-year-old Earl of
Bothwell causing a rebellion
May 15: She is imprisoned y
the Scots lords
July 24: Mary abdicates and
her baby son, James, becomes King James VI, King of
Scotland - her illegitimate brother, the Earl of
Murray appointed as Protector
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1568 |
May 13: Escape from captivity
followed shortly after by defeat at Langside
Flight to England but she is
imprisoned by Elizabeth I at Fotheringay Castle
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1569 |
October 1: Catholic Thomas
Howard, Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned in the Tower
for plotting to the captive queen of Scotland
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1578 |
April 14: Earl of Bothwell
dies in a prison in Denmark
The Babington Plot - Sir
Francis Walsingham discovers plot to assassinate
Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of
Scots. The leader of the plot was Anthony Babbington
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1586 |
July 1: Treaty of Berwick
between Queen Elizabeth and James VI of Scotland
October 25: Mary
Queen of Scots is convicted of involvement in the
Babbington plot
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1587 |
February 8: The Execution by
beheading of Mary Queen of Scots |
