1593 in Scotland

Incumbents

Events

• 12 November – decree orders Catholics to give up their faith or leave the country.
• 7 December – Battle of Dryfe Sands: the Clan Johnstone defeat the Clan Maxwell at Skipmyre, just west of Lockerbie, and Lord Maxwell is killed.
• Marischal College is founded in Aberdeen by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal.
• Emergence of the Presbytery of Glasgow within the developing Presbyterian polity.
• The Banffshire constituency is first represented in the Parliament of Scotland.

  Births

• 13 April – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English politician
• 2 May – John Forbes of Corse, theologian
• Robert Blair, moderator

  Deaths

• 16 January – Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant
• 4 February – Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney
• 26 May – William Baillie, Lord Provand, judge
• 23 August – Adam Bothwell, bishop, judge and politician
• 26 September – William Chisholm, bishop of Dunblane
• 7 December – John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell
• date unknown –
• *William Ashby, English politician
• *William Forbes of Corsindae