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The adult life of James VI and I was punctuated by plots against his person (assassinations or kidnappings) which all failed, most chronologies take the Gunpowder Plot as POD but none deal with the Gowrie Conspiracy, from the 5 August 1600, last plot against the King of Scotland before his...

WI for whatever reason, the Scottish reformation fails to take hold, and Scotland remains overwhelmingly Catholic. How does this affect relations with England. Is Mary, QoS still deposed in favour of James VI? I assume that James cannot take the English throne in 1603 if he's still Catholic, but...

A Series By Ghazghkull Welcome all to Grasping the Thistle, an independent Scotland-focused series and timeline. This is a series I have been playing about with for a little while now, and I've peppered posts on the forum around this theme from time to time, but now I want to turn it into a...

The Auld Union Timeline of a French-Scottish dual-monarchy On 5 July 1560, Edinburgh signed a peace treaty. This treaty put an end to a civil war between the Catholic and Protestant Scots supported respectively by France and England. More than a civil peace, this agreement puts an end to one...

Hello all, So, yesterday was the Twelfth of July -- the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. I was wondering -- what would have happened if James II defeated William of Orange? I think it quite unlikely for James to retake England or Scotland -- he'd already been ousted by William, who had...

What if Roman authorities in Britannia found the Tyndrum gold mine sometime in the 140s, when the empire's power was at its peak? Would they be able to extract it with the technology they had, and, assuming such a thing was possible, would they be able and willing to subjugate all of Britain...

Robert Steward was a grandson of king Robert the Bruce. Despite beign accepted as his heir presumptive in 1318, Robert had to wait for the crown for almost 42 years, after his grandfather had a son, David II of Scotland. David II ruled since 1329 to 1371, but he had no children, and Robert...

As we all know in football, the 2015/16 season is one that many will know that Leicester stunned the world to win the Premier League and is seen as one of the greatest football stories ever told. However what some won't know is that north of the border in Scotland, Aberdeen were (at least until...

Let's say the Auld Alliance turned into a full fledged union between France and Scotland by Queen Mary of Scotland and Francis II of France manging to have a kid before Francis died, how would this hypothetical nation affect England and other European countries and colonization of the Americas...

In 870 CE the stronghold of Alt Clut (now Dumbarton Rock) fell after a four month siege to a Viking army from Dublin, led by Amlaib and Imar, the ruler of Dublin and his brother, respectively. Alt Clut was the center of a small but wealthy Brittonic kingdom and controlled access to the lowlands...

Fully Seeded: A (Men's Football) World Cup Timelime Prologue In 2018, Michel Platini gave an interview in which he admitted that the draw for the World Cup of twenty years earlier had been slightly rigged. The disgraced ex-UEFA president admitted that ‘a little trickery’ had been employed to...

By early 1900s Scotland was yearning for an independce from Britan. But Britan wasn't having it and warned Scotland that they must be careful about planing anthing against Britan and if they did. They would face an serious attack from there Northen neighbours and no one would be safe. From an...

During the period of British history called the Anarchy David I's looked to extend Scottish influence and control into Yorkshire as he'd already done in other parts of Northern England by launching an invasion but was defeated by William of Aumale at the Battle of the Standard on August 22...

I always hear two separate arguments that with out the Norman conquest the English would have conquered Scotland since they're not distracted by wars with France On the other hand I have heard arguments the English were not interested in northern expansion so if duke William looses to the...

Edward of Caernarfon was the eldest surviving son of King Edward I of England and only surviving son of his first wife, Eleanor of Castille - and because of that, he was - among other things -heir apparent and the first "English Prince of Wales". But all in all,king was most of the time was...

King James the 1st came to power as the king of England in 1603 but that meant Scotland lost their indpendence but what if as was being crowned he asked if Scotland could keep their independence. But the now former king was angry and banished Scotland from the UK so in a way they got indpendence...

The Darien Scheme was one of the most disastrous colonization attempts in history. It was attempted by Scotland, by the Company of Scotland, to colonize the Isthmus of Panama to make a trading colony between the Atlantic and Pacific. It was plagued by problems, including plague (mostly Tropical...

James VI/I of Scotland-England's eldest son died at age 18, leaving the crown to Charles, whose tyrannical nature and questionable religious and financial reforms were major causes of the English civil war. according to Wikipedia, in addition to being quite bright and popular, he was a very...

James I Steward - if remember at all- is remember for a few things, but the most well known thing about him is that he was murdered on 21 February 1437 by a group of 30+ people led by sir Robert Graham. Despite his death, his bloodline remained on the throne, despite the fact that his son - also...

what if post roman britain developed a better military and conquered british isles how will this affect medieval europe ? will anglo saxon or vikings or british invasions of france be stopped or more successful due to british overstretch ?