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Events from the year 1589 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 20 August – Anne of Denmark marries James VI by proxy at Kronborg Castle. James's proxy George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal made speeches and gave her a jewel.[1]
- 22 October – James VI sails from Leith in the James Royal to meet Anne of Denmark in Norway.[2]
- 23 November – James VI and Anne of Denmark marry formally at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo
- Golf is played on Glasgow Green
Births
[edit]- 9 December – John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown (died 1650)
- William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas (died 1660)
- James King, 1st Lord Eythin, soldier (died 1652 in Sweden)
- Probable – George Jamesone, portrait painter (died 1644)[3]
Deaths
[edit]- February
- James Halyburton, Protestant reformer (born 1518)
- Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay, Confederate (born 1521)
- 7 September – Jane Kennedy, companion of Mary, Queen of Scots (drowned while making ferry crossing across the Forth to greet the new queen, Anne of Denmark)[4]
- 28 December – George Douglas, Bishop of Moray
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (Boydell, 2019), p. 50.
- ^ Clare Jackson, The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI and I (Allen Lane, 2025), p. 1115.
- ^ "George Jamesone, 1589 / 1590 - 1644. Portrait painter (Self-portrait)". www.nationalgalleries.org. National Galleries Scotland. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (1936), p. 165–6, letters of William Ashby to Walsingham and William Cecil.