1570 in Scotland

Events from 1570 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

← 1569 1568 1567 1566 1565 1570 in Scotland → 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575
Centuries:	14th 15th 16th 17th 18th
Decades:	1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1570 in: England • Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Monarch – James VI
• Regent Moray, followed by Regent Lennox.

Events

• 14 February – Funeral of Regent Moray at St Giles' Cathedral.^[1]
• April – Nageir the Moor, a courtier, leaves Scotland.^[2]
• 12 July – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox is elected and proclaimed Regent of Scotland at the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
• Battle of Bun Garbhain

Births

• 13 April – Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Lovat

Deaths

• 23 January – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, assassinated by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh at Linlithgow.
• February – Henry Balnaves, lawyer and Protestant reformer.
• 15 April – John Wood, assassinated.^[3]
• 7 September – Euphemia Leslie, Prioress of Elcho.

Buildings

• Mar's Wark at Stirling has datestones of 1570 and 1572.^[4]

Publications

• Ane Prettie Mirrour, or Conference betuix the faithful Protestant and the Dissemblit false Hypocreit, by William Lauder, printed by Robert Lekpreuik in Edinburgh.
• The Regentis Tragedie, by Robert Sempill the elder, printed by Robert Lekpreuik in Edinburgh and John Awdely in London.