Events from the year 1578 in the
Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
James VI
Events
*
Battle of the Spoiling Dyke at
Trumpan
Trumpan ( gd, Trumpan) is a hamlet located on the Vaternish peninsula in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Trumpan church, which is now a ruin, was the focus of a particularly brutal incident in 1578, when the Cla ...
on the
Isle of Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated ...
: the
Clan MacLeod are victorious over the
MacDonalds of Uist in a feud.
Births
*
Robert Boyd, Principal of the
University of Glasgow (died
1627
Events
January–March
* January 26 – The Dutch ship t Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by François Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rural p ...
)
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William Welwod
William Welwod (1578–1622) was a Scottish jurist who was the first to formulate the laws of the sea in an insular Germanic language.
He was a professor of civil law at the University of St Andrews until 1611, when he resigned his chair and m ...
, jurist (died
1622
Events
January–May
* January 7 – The Holy Roman Empire and Transylvania sign the Peace of Nikolsburg.
* February 8 – King James I of England dissolves the English Parliament.
* March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, F ...
)
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Gilbert Jack
Gilbert Jack ( Latinized as ''Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus''; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Ramist philosopher and physician.
Life
He was born in Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the Universit ...
, philosopher (died
1628
Events
January–March
* January 19 – (26 Jumada al-Awwal 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 dea ...
)
Deaths
* 14 April –
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Denmark (born )
*May/September –
Robert Richardson, lord treasurer
*September/October –
Alexander Hepburn
Alexander Hepburn (died 1578) was a 16th-century Scottish cleric who served as Protestant Bishop of Ross.
Life
He is first mentioned as minister of Little Dunkeld in 1574.
He was elected as bishop of Ross on 14 May 1574, following the Chu ...
, Bishop of Ross
*
James Douglas, 7th of Drumlanrig
Sir James Douglas, 7th of Drumlanrig, (1498–1578) was a Scottish nobleman active in a turbulent time in Scotland's history.
Life
He was the son of Sir William Douglas, 6th of Drumlanrig (b. bef. 1484, k. 9 Sep 1513, Battle of Flodden) and Eliza ...
, baron
See also
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Timeline of Scottish history
References
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