1585 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1585 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1585 in: England ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1585 in: England ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Events
- Curators Act 1585 passed
- 30 April â First death in Edinburgh from plague.[1]
- 4 November â James VI surrenders Stirling Castle to the rebel lords.[2]
Births
- 13 December â William Drummond of Hawthornden, poet (died 1649)
- date unknown â
- William Forbes, first Bishop of Edinburgh (died 1634)
- Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet, noble, known as a lawyer, statesman and author (died 1670)
- James Wedderburn, Bishop of Dunblane (died 1639)
Deaths
- February â George Seton, 7th Lord Seton[3] (born 1531)
- March â Robert Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld
- 3 June â John Grant of Freuchie.
- 1 September â Alexander Arbuthnot, printer
- 8 October â Andrew Hay, 8th Earl of Erroll
- 4 December â John Willock, reformer (born c.â1515)
