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List of events
Events from the year 1600 in the
Kingdom of Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January – today is adopted as
New Year's Day following the partial adoption of the
Gregorian Calendar in Scotland
[1]
[2]
- 20 March – Construction of
Cullen House in Moray begins.
- 5 August – the Gowrie House affair, a plot to kidnap
James VI in
Perth, in which
Robert Logan of Restalrig is implicated, devised by
John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (who dies in the attempt, together with his brother
Alexander Ruthven)
[3]
- 19 November – the future King
Charles I of England and Scotland, son of James VI, is born in
Dunfermline Palace
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Scalloway Castle is built on
Mainland, Shetland, by
Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney
Births
Deaths
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