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1263
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Battle of Largs
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1296
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Battle of Berwick
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1297
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Action at Lanark
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1297
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Raid on Scone
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1297
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Battle of Sanquhar
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1297
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Capitualation at Invine
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1307
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Battle of Sanquhar (2)
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1308
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Battle of
Brander Pass
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1312
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Battle of Hartlepool
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1314
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Battle of
Bannockburn
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1316
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Battle of Skaithmuir
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1317
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Battle of Lintalee or
Battle
of Linthaughlee
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1317
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Battle of Berwick (2)
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1327
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Weardale campaign
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1328
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Northampton Treaty
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1330
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Battle of Teba
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1333
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Battle of Halidon Hill
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1356
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Battle of Poitiers
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1388
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|
The 2nd Earl of Douglas, who married a Stewart princess,
was killed at Otterburn in 1388
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1400
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|
4th Earl of Douglas
held Edinburgh against the English when Henry IV invaded.
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1400
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Battle of Cockburnspath
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1402
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Imprisoned at Falkland by Duke of Albany
and the 4th Earl of Douglas,
Rothesay died in circumstances which indicated his murder. The Earl of
Douglas and Albany's son Murdoch were defeated and made prisoner by the
English at Homildon Hill. Robert
III having tried to save his second son from the fate of Rothesay by
sending him secretly to France, Prince James was captured by the
English. On the old king's death Albany as .Regent probably intended to
obtain the throne for his own family.
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1403
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At the battle of
Shrewsbury,
4th Earl of Douglas was taken prisoner by Henry IV and held until
ransomed in 1408.
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1424
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The allies were defeated at
Verneuil,
and 4th Earl of Douglas was slain.
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1435
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Battle of Piper Dene
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1440
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Black Bull Dinner -
Edinburgh Castle
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1447
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War between Scotland and England
Battle of Pinkie
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1448
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Battle of Sark
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|
|
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1450
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|
The 8th Earl led a Scottish retinue to Rome in
celebration of the end of the Papal schism. King James II
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1541/42
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Battle of
Brechin
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1452
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8th Earl murdered by King James II in
Stirling
Castle
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1455
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Battle of Arkinholm
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1476
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|
Rebelling in conjunction with the exiled
Earl
of Douglas, John, Lord of the Isles, forfeited the earldom of Ross.
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1484
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|
Albany renewed his pact with Edward IV, and
invaded Scotland with the exiled Douglas. Douglas was captured; Albany
fled to France.
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1513
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|
Battle
of Flodden
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1513
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|
Skirmish at Sclaterford
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1514
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|
Archibald,
6th Earl of Angus married the Scottish Queen Dowager, Margaret
Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England
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1515
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Cleanse
the Causeway
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1520
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Battle
of Edinburgh
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1526
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|
Battle of Linlithgow Bridge
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1528
|
|
James V escaped from the custody of the
Douglases, confiscated the estates of Angus and drove him into England.
Patrick Hamilton was burned at St. Andrews as a Lutheran.
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1542
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Battle
of Hadden Rigg
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1537
|
|
Lady Janet Douglas of
Glamis
burned at the stake
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1545
|
|
As a result of the destruction of the Douglas tomb at
Melrose,
the Earl of Angus with Scott of Buccleugh and Lesley of Rothes defeat
and slaughter the English at Ancrum Moor near
Jedburgh.
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1562
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|
Battle of Skirmish Hill
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|
15 June 1567
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|
Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell with the support of
Huntly and Crawford confront the Lords at
Carberry Hill. There is no
battle but Mary agrees to follow the Lords on condition that they let Bothwell go. But the Lords break their promise and take her to the Lord
Provost's House in Edinburgh and then to Lochleven
Castle as their prisoner.
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2 May 1568
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|
Mary escapes from Lochleven with the help of two of the
young Douglases. She is met by Lord Seton on the other bank and travels
to Niddry Castle and then Cadzow Castle.
She gathers 6,000 men.
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1571
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|
Civil war broke out between the king's
party and the queen's party. Mary's principal
supporters were Chatelherault, Huntly, Lethington and Kirkcaldy of
Grange, who held Edinburgh castle against James Douglas, Earl of Morton.
Lennox was killed at Stirling, and succeeded as Regent by the Earl of
Mar.
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1572
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|
On the death of Mar, Morton became Regent
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|
1573
|
|
Regent Morton
re-captured
Edinburgh Castle
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|
1575
|
|
Raid of the Redeswire
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1581
|
|
Execution of
Regent Morton
|
|
1689
|
|
Earl of Angus raised the
Cameronians
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|
1745
|
|
Battle of Fontenoy
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1746
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Battle of Culloden
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