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List of events
Events from 1568 in the
Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 2 May – The deposed
Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from
Lochleven Castle.
- 13 May –
Marian civil war:
Battle of Langside – The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish
Protestants under
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
[1]
- 16 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees across the
Solway Firth from Scotland to
England
[2] but on May 19 is placed in custody in
Carlisle Castle on the orders of Queen
Elizabeth I of England, her cousin.
- 10 June – The Earl of Moray musters forces at
Biggar for a march on
Dumfries.
- October – The Earl of Moray shows Mary's "
casket letters" at a conference in
York headed by
the Duke of Norfolk, and again at
Westminster Palace on 7 December
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