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1538 in Scotland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ136106020 ↗
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Events from 1538 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

Monarch – James V

Events

9 May – James V and Mary of Guise are married by proxy at the Château de Châteaudun. The King's proxy Lord Maxwell gave the bride a diamond ring.

16 November – Mary of Guise makes her royal entry to Edinburgh on St Margaret's Day.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1538—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Scotland, Open-knowledge and entry providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136106020. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1538.

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This entry incorporates text from “1538 in Scotland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.