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Events from the year 1554 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mary of Guise inaugurated as Regent, in succession to James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault
Events
[edit]- 12 April – Mary of Guise is declared Regent of Scotland at a meeting of the Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh.[1]
- 28 December – Edinburgh burgh council resolves to produce a play written by William Lauder (poet), probably as a New Year's Day gift to Mary of Guise.[2]
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- 29 August – Norman Leslie (soldier), veteran of the siege of St Andrews Castle.
Literature
[edit]- Jephthes, sive Votum, a tragedy by George Buchanan is published in Paris.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lucinda H. S. Dean, "In the Absence of an Adult Monarch", Kate Buchanan, Lucinda Dean, Michael Penman, Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (Routledge, 2016), pp. 152–154: Rosalind K. Marshall, Mary of Guise (Collins, 1977), p. 198.
- ^ Amy Blakeway, Regency in Scotland (Boydell, 2015), p. 134: James Dibdin, Annals of the Edinburgh Stage, p. 9.