Events in the year 1608 in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

– James VI

Events

Architecture

May 8 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...

– Works by

Bevis Bulmer Sir Bevis Bulmer (1536–1615) was an English mining engineer during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He has been called "one of the great speculators of that era". Many of the events in his career were recorded by Stephen Atkinson in ''The ...

commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at

Hilderston, West Lothian Hilderston or Hilderstone in West Lothian, Scotland, was the site of the discovery of a vein of silver in 1606 and a mining operation that attracted international interest. King James used rumours of a silver bonanza to leverage a loan in the Cit ...

. *

Tullibole Castle Tullibole Castle is a 17th-century castle in Crook of Devon Crook of Devon is a village within the parish of Fossoway in Kinross-shire about west of Kinross on the A977 road. Its name derives from the nearly 180-degree turn, from generally ...

constructed

Sport

*The Lanark Silver Bell (horse racing trophy) established

Births

* James Steuart of Coltness, merchant, banker, landowner, politician and Covenanter (d. 1681).

Deaths

*26 February – Thomas Craig, jurist and poet (born c.1538) *15 May – Archibald Napier landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston (b. 1534) *9 November –

John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose (1548 – 9 November 1608) was a Scottish peer and Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1599 to 1604. He was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, from 1605 to 1606. Family backgr ...

, peer, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (b. 1548).

Full date missing

* George Bannatyne, merchant, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545) *

Alexander Campbell of Carco Alasdair Caimbeul or Alexander Campbell of Carco (died February 1608) was a Scottish noble and prelate. Coming from a branch of Clan Campbell in the allegiance of the Earl of Argyll, his career began in the 1560s still only a minor, serving th ...

, noble and prelate *

William Barclay William Barclay may refer to: *William Barclay (jurist) (1546–1608), Scottish jurist *William Barclay (writer) (c. 1570–c. 1630), Scottish writer *William Barclay (painter) (1797–1859), English miniature painter *William Barclay (theologian) ...

, jurist (b. 1546)

References

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