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| 1587 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle | |
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| 1598 |
| | | James VI of Scotland argues in an anonymous book that kings, appointed by God, are above human law | |
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| 1603 |
| | | James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England | |
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| 1603 |
| | | The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland | |
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| 1604 |
| | | The British king James I launches a blistering attack on the smoking of tobacco, which he considers a loathsome custom | |
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| 1625 |
| | | On the death of his father, James VI and I, Charles I becomes king of England and Scotland | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Charles I and his archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, attempt to impose the full Anglican hierarchy on presbyterian Scotland | |
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| 1638 |
| | | A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland | |
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| 1638 |
| | | Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops | |
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| 1639 |
| | | Covenanters seize control of Edinburgh and other Scottish towns, launching the conflict with England known as the Bishops' War | |
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