1583 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1583 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Monarch - James VI
Events
- June — James VI regains his freedom following the Raid of Ruthven.
 - James VI signs a charter (dated 1582) creating the Tounis College, the modern-day University of Edinburgh.
 
Births
- Elizabeth Woodford[1]
 - Approximate date —
- David Dickson, theologian (died 1663)
 - Alexander Henderson, theologian (died 1646)[2]
 
 
Deaths
- 26 May — Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (born 1542)
 - 13 December — Thomas Smeton, minister and academic (born 1536)
 - December — James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich, lawyer (born c. 1525)
 - Alexander Arbuthnot, minister, academic and poet (born 1538)
 - John Cockburn of Ormiston, Protestant laird
 
See also
References
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