1578 in Scotland
Events from the year 1578 in the Kingdom of Scotland.Incumbents
Monarch – James VI- Battle of the Spoiling Dyke at Trumpan on Skye: the Clan MacLeod are victorious over the MacDonalds of Uist.
Births
- Robert Boyd, Principal of the University of Glasgow
- William Welwod, jurist
- Gilbert Jack, philosopher
Deaths
- 14 April – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Denmark
- May/September – Robert Richardson, lord treasurer
- September/October – Alexander Hepburn, Bishop of Ross
- James Douglas, 7th Baron Drumlanrig, noble
