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Mary Stuart is at Fotheringhay Castle on February 8, 1587 at the age of 44, on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I. |
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Mary Stuart's army is defeated in the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow Scotland. |
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Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven and once again begins to raise a small army. |
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Mary Queen of Scots, who is imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle, is forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of her one-year-old son James. |
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Mary Stuart's second husband, Henry, Lord Darnley, is murdered at Kirk o'Field, just outside the walls of Edinburgh. Many implicate her in the crime. |
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Mary Stuart's second husband Henry, Lord Darnley, bursts into her supper chamber inside the Palace of Holyroodhouse., threatens her, and murders her secretary David Riccio. |
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A 19 year-old, widowed Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland from France. |
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Mary Stuart marries the Dauphin Francis, heir to French King Henri II, in Paris. |
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Mary Stuart is born at the Palace of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. She is the daughter of King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie de Guise. |
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While in hiding in Stirling Castle, the infant Mary Stuart is given a small coronation ceremony to officially become Queen of Scotland. |
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