Events from the year 1589 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents Monarch – James VI
Events 20 August – Anne of Denmark marries James VI by proxy at Kronborg Castle. James's proxy George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal made speeches and gave her a jewel.Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (Boydell, 2019), p. 50. 22 October – James VI sails from Leith in the James Royal to meet Anne of Denmark in Norway.Clare Jackson, The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI and I (Allen Lane, 2025), p. 1115. 23 November – James VI and Anne of Denmark marry formally at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo Golf is played on Glasgow Green
Births 9 December – John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown (died 1650) William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas (died 1660) James King, 1st Lord Eythin, soldier (died 1652 in Sweden) Probable – George Jamesone, portrait painter (died 1644)
Deaths February James Halyburton, Protestant reformer (born 1518) Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay, Confederate (born 1521) 7 September – Jane Kennedy, companion of Mary, Queen of Scots (drowned while making ferry crossing across the Forth to greet the new queen, Anne of Denmark)Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (1936), p. 165–6, letters of William Ashby to Walsingham and William Cecil. 28 December – George Douglas, Bishop of Moray
See also Timeline of Scottish history
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