James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and later James I of England (1603-1625) on the death of Elizabeth I without a heir, king of Great Britain and Ireland.
James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley. He was declared King of Scotland on the dethronement of his mother in 1567 but the country was ruled by a regency until 1583. In 1603, James succeeded Queen Elizabeth I to the crown of England, uniting the two kingdoms.
In Scotland, James introduced administravtive reforms and took an interest in industrial development. His rule of Scotland was marked by two main features. He destroyed the power of the barons and thus put an end to the anarchy which had beset Scotland for many years. James maintained the power of the State over the Church and this brought him into conflict with the Presbyterians.
In England, James attempted to rule in the same fashion as he had done in Scotland. James I and his ministers made a determined effort to enforce the Poor Laws of 1601.
His reign was a period of growing conflict between the English Crown and the middle classes which would result in the next reign ending in the Civil War between monarch and parliament. This conflict was brought about by the King's taxation policy and industrial regulation (particularly the sales of monopolies) and intensified by antagonism to James on personal grounds.
Monarchy is the greatest thing on earth. Kings are rightly called gods since just like God they have power of life and death over all their subjects in all things. They are accountable to God only . . . so it is a crime for anyone to argue about what a king can do.
| | - King James I (1566-1625) to Parliament, 1614 |
James I's second son succeeded to the throne in 1625 as Charles I.
On her death, Queen Elizabeth I left her successor a debt of £400,000. The reign of the House of Stuart was marked by financial difficulties which James attempted to remedy by raising taxation and the sale of monopolies.
The most active period of persecution of witches in England was the 17th century. James I had a reputation for being a learned authority on the subject of witches and even published a book on the subject.
| 1543.Jul | | Treaties of Greenwich: 6-month-old Mary, Queen of Scots, promised in marriage to Prince Edward, the son of Henry VIII in
1552
and for their heirs to inherit the kingdoms of Scotland and England | | BAAAGEKT BAAAGDGR BAAAGBXA BAAAGCLM | | 1566.Jun.19 | | Birth of the future James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) to Mary, Queen of Scots
Shortly afterwards, Mary began a liaison with James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell | | BAAAGEKC BAAAGEKT BAAAGCLM | | 1567.Jul.24 | | Deposition (abdication) of Mary, Queen of Scots in favour of her infant Protestant son who is proclaimed as James VI of Scotland at Stirling (later James I of England), Moray becomes regent | | BAAAGCLM BAAAGEKC BAAAGEKT BAAAGCQN | | 1570.Jan.23 | | Assassination of James Stewart, Earl of Moray, half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots\' and Regent in Scotland for her son, James VI | | BAAAGCLM BAAAGEKC BAAAGEKT | | 1590 | | North Berwick Witch trials; involving James VI of Scotland (James I of England) - the first witchcraft trials in Scotland
1590-1591 The North Berwick witch trials in Scotland. | | BAAAGCQN BAAAGEKC | | 1590.May.01 | | James VI and his wife Anne land in Scotland battered by storms in the Firth of Forth | | BAAAGCQN | | 1597 | | Publication of Daemonologie by James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) | | BAAAGCQN | | 1600.Nov.19 | | Birth of the future Charles I of England, the second son of James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) and Anne of Denmark at Dunfermline Palace | | BAAAGCLK BAAAGEKC | | 1603.Mar.23 | | Dying Queen Elizabeth I makes a sign to her assembled councilors assembled when Cecil mentions James VI of Scotland regarding the succession | | BAAAGCLM BAAAGEKC | | 1603.Mar.24 | | Death of
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-) of England and Ireland in the early hours
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to the crown by James VI of Scotland as James I | | 00000000 BAAAGBKD BAAAGCLM BAAAGCBT BAAAGEKC BAAAGCQN | | 1603.Mar.27 | | James I receives news of his accession from Robert Carey at Edinburgh
The ambitious Carey road to Edinburgh at a speed only matched in 1832 | | BAAAGCLM | | 1603.Apr.28 | | Funeral procession of Elizabeth I
She was interred at Westminster Abbey | | BAAAGCLM BAAAGEFJ | | 1603.May.19 | | Shakespeare's troupe, Chamberlain's Men, win the patronage of James I, becomming known as The Kings Men | | | | 1605.Nov.05 | | THE GUNPOWDER PLOT: Guy Fawkes discovered in cellar under the House of Lords with 36 barrels of gunpowder and matches by Sir Thomas Knyvet
King James I of England who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day. | | | | 1612 | | James I orders the remains of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, to be removed from Peterborough Cathedral to Westminster Abbey
Her remains lie 30 feet from those of her cousin Elizabeth I whom she never met | | BAAAGEKT BAAAGCLM BAAAGEFJ | | 1616 | | Weymouth amalgamted with Melcombe Regis, the new town being granted a charter by James I | | BAAAGBVB | | 1625.Mar.27 | | Death of James I (James VI of Scotland)
Charles I succeeds his father as king of England, Wales and Scotland | | BAAAGCLK BAAAGEKC |
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