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Mary Queen of Scots is born, the only child of James V of Scotland; James dies when she is a week old, leaving the country at war with England
1542
Mary is taken to France to be educated by her mother, Mary of Guise, at court and is brought up as a Catholic
1548
Mary marries the heir to the French throne
1558
Francis II dies and Mary is left a widow at age eighteen
1560
Mary returns to Scotland to assume the role of Queen there
1561
Mary marries Lord Darnley (a great grandson of Henry VII), prompting speculation that she intended to claim the English throne
1565
Mary had taken another lover, the Earl of Bothwell. At 2 a.m. the house at Kirk-o-field where Darnley and his valet were sleeping was rocked by an explosion. The evidence suggests that Darnley had actually been murdered by being strangled before the explosion. Bothwell was suspected of being implicated and Mary may well have known of the plot. Suspicions became stronger when Mary and Bothwell ran away together and were married.
February 1567
Mary is forced to abdicate in favour of her son, James
1567
Mary flees to England
1568
Mary’s case regarding the plot against Darnley is examined
1568-69
The rebellion of the northern earls takes place
1569
The Ridolfi Plot takes place
1571
The Throckmorton Plot takes place
1583-84
The Babington Plot takes place
1586
A papal pronouncement states that anyone who assassinated Elizabeth with the ‘pious intention of doing God’s service, not only does not sin, but gains merit’
1580
Mary Queen of Scots is executed
February 1587
The conspirators of the Babington Plot are arrested and executed
September 1586
A special commission finds Mary guilty
October 1586
