Scotland

Seal granted by Edinburgh Town Council to the Incorporation of Barbers and Surgeons to practice their craft

Seal granted by Edinburgh Town Council to the Incorporation of Barbers and Surgeons to practice their craft. The organization is now known as the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

A bull from Pope Alexander VI confirmed the foundation of Aberdeen University

The establishment of the University of Aberdeen was confirmed by a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI.

Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, born

Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to King James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son’s minority, and fought to extend her regency.

King James IV, King of Scots, born.

James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James III, at the Battle of Sauchieburn, following a rebellion in which the younger James was the figurehead of the rebels.

Orkney and Shetland annexed from Norway to the crown of Scotland

King James II killed by an exploding cannon at the siege of Roxburgh Castle.

James II of Scotland (October 16, 1430 – August 03, 1460) was king of Scotland from 1437 to 1460.

King James II killed William Douglas at Stirling

King James III, born

James III of Scotland (1451- 1452 ? June 11, 1488), son of James II and Mary of Gueldres, created Duke of Rothesay at birth, king of Scotland from 1460 to 1488. James was an unpopular and ineffective monarch owing to an unwillingness to administer justice fairly, a policy of pursuing alliance with the Kingdom of England, and a disastrous relationship with nearly all his extended family.

Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385), died

Walter Bower ( c. 1385 – 24 December 1449) was a Scottish canon regular and abbot of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era. He was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian, in the Kingdom of Scotland.

William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer, died

William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale, a Fahrenheit-based equivalent to the Celsius-based Kelvin scale of temperature.