Reformation & Union · event 3 of 8

1566

Rizzio is murdered at Holyrood. Mary’s secretary is dragged from her supper room and stabbed fifty-six times in front of her. She is six months pregnant with the future James VI.

The Reformation & Union era

  1. 1560
  2. 1561
  3. 1566
  4. 1603
  5. 1638
  6. 1645
  7. 1707
  8. 1736

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