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James V

King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542

21 dated entries naming James V, drawn from 14 separate years between 1512 CE and 1560 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1512April 10 – James V, King of Scots (died 1542)source
  • 1513September 9 – Battle of Flodden: King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. James's infant son, the Duke of Rothesay, becomes James V, King of Scots. At least 5,000 Scots and 1,500 English troops are killed.source
  • 151321 September – James V is crowned in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle.source
  • 1515November 22 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V and regent of Scotland (died 1560)source
  • 1516July 4 – King James V of Scotland opens the Scottish Parliament at Edinburgh.source
  • 1520August 10 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)source
  • 1522August 3 – Lord Erskine is appointed by Margaret Tudor, regent of Scotland, to be the "keeper" of Margaret's 10-year-old son, King James V, who is to remain within the confines of Erskine's home at Stirling Castle.source
  • 1528May 9 – King James V of Scotland, 16, held captive for more than two years under the guardianship of the Earl of Angus, is able to escape from Edinburgh to Stirling after several failed rescue attempts.source
  • 1536September 1 – King James V becomes the first Scottish monarch since 1346 to voluntarily leave his kingdom, leaving six vice-regents— the Lord Chancellor Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow; James Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews; the earls of Huntly, Montrose, and Eglinton, and Lord Maxwell— to govern the nation during his absence. King James sails from Kirkcaldy on the Royal Scots Navy flagship Mary Willoughby, along with 500 men and five other ships, to travel to France to meet his future bride, Princess Madeleine of Valois. The Scottish entourage docks in France at Dieppe one week later.source
  • 1537January 1 – Princess Madeleine of Valois, the 16-year-old daughter of François I, King of France, is married to King James V of Scotland in a ceremony at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Already in ill health at the time of the marriage, Madaleine lives only six more months before dying at the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on July 7.source
  • 15371 January – James V and Madeleine of Valois are married at Notre-Dame de Paris.source
  • 153719 May – James V and Madeleine of Valois arrive at Leith.source
  • 1537July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1520)source
  • 1538May 9 – Mary of Guise is wed by proxy to King James V of Scotland, while she is at the Château de Châteaudun and he is in London, with neither of the two seeing each other.source
  • 1542November 9 – King James V of Scotland writes a letter to Pope Paul III and notes that he defied Henry VIII's attempts to convert him to the Protestant faith.source
  • 1542December 14 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged six days, becomes queen regnant on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.source
  • 1542December 14 – King James V of Scotland (born 1512)source
  • 154214 December 1542 - James V at Falkland Palace.source
  • 1543January 8 – The burial of King James V of Scotland is carried out at Holyrood Abbey.source
  • 1559July 25 – The Articles of Leith are signed in Edinburgh between the Protestant Lords of the Congregation and the Roman Catholic representatives of the Scottish regent, Mary of Guise, the widow of King James V, who is ruling on behalf of her daughter, the 17-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots. The Lords, who have occupied Edinburgh since June, withdraw their troops in return for the Scottish crown's agreement to not interfere with the practice of Protestantism in Scotland.source
  • 1560June 11 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent (born 1515)source

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