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Events from the year 1593 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Monarch - James VI
Events
- 12 November — Decree orders Catholics to give up their faith or leave the country.
 - 7 December — Battle of Dryfe Sands: the Clan Johnstone defeat the Clan Maxwell at Skipmyre, just west of Lockerbie, and Lord Maxwell is killed.[1]
 - Marischal College is founded in Aberdeen by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal.[2]
 - Emergence of the Presbytery of Glasgow within the developing Presbyterian polity.
 - The Banffshire constituency is first represented in the Parliament of Scotland (by Sir Walter Ogilvie).
 
Births
- 13 April — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English politician (executed 1641)[3]
 - 2 May — John Forbes of Corse, theologian (died 1648)
 - Robert Blair, moderator (died 1666)
 
Deaths
- 16 January — Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant (born 1529)
 - 4 February — Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney (born 1533/4)
 - 26 May — William Baillie, Lord Provand, judge
 - 23 August — Adam Bothwell, bishop, judge and politician (born c.1527)
 - 26 September — William Chisholm, bishop of Dunblane (born 1525/6)
 - 7 December — John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell (born 1553)
 -  date unknown —
- William Ashby, English politician
 - William Forbes of Corsindae
 
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Dryfe Sands 1593".
 - ↑ "Marischal College 1593-1858". NAHSTE.
 - ↑ "Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641". BCW Project. 2007-09-19.
 
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