| Year |
Month |
Event |
Description |
Reference |
| 1542 |
24-Nov |
Battle
of Solway Moss |
Scots,
commanded by Oliver Sinclair of Pitcairns, beaten by the
English and taken prisoner |
Dictionary
of National Biography Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland |
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| 1542 |
|
George
4th Earl |
First
sat as a Peer in Parliament |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
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| 1542 |
|
Gold
produced in Caithness |
At
Rattar |
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| 1546 |
03-Jun |
Sir
William Sinclair of Rosslyn |
Marie
of Guise appoints him the keeper of all the sacred treasures
of Scotland |
Andrew
Sinclair |
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| 1556 |
17-Apr |
George
4th Earl |
Received
a grant of the hereditary justiciary of Caithness with full
power over life and death |
Dictionary
of National Biography |
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| 1558 |
Nov |
Henry
Sinclair |
Younger
son of Sir Oliver Sinclair of Roslin made Bishop of Ross |
Historical
account of the Senators of the College of Justice (Brunton) |
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| 1559 |
|
Sir
William Sinclair of Rosslyn |
Lord
Chief Justice of Scotland |
Rosslyn
Chapel (The Earl of Rosslyn) |
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| 1560 |
|
John
Knox (mother was a Sinclair) |
Founds
Presbyterian Church in Scotland |
|
|
|
Oliver
Sinclair of Pitcairns |
Dies |
Collins
Encyclopedia of Scotland |
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|
|
|
| 1560 |
|
George
4th Earl |
Oppose
the ratification of the 'Confession
of Faith' in Parliament |
Dictionary
of National Biography |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1565 |
29-Jul |
Dr
John Sinclair, son of Sir Oliver Sinclair of Roslin |
Marries
Mary Queen of Scots to Lord Darnley |
Baronage
of Scotland (Douglas) |
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|
| 1567 |
12-Apr |
George
4th Earl |
Foreman
of the Jury at the trial that acquitted
James, Earl of Bothwell
for the murder of Lord Darnley and who then married Mary Queen
of Scots. |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
|
|
|
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| 1567 |
|
Thomas
Sinclair |
Keeper
of the Privy Seal when Mary Queen of Scots was forced to
abdicate and in turn was forced to attach the seals by the
Lord Lindsay even though Mary's signature was obtained by
coersion |
Pictorial
History of Scotland by James Taylor |
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| 1568 |
|
Henry
3rd Lord Sinclair |
Assists
Mary Queen of Scots to escape from Lochleven Castle |
Dictionary
of National Biography |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1570 |
|
John,
Master of Caithness, son of George |
Burns
the Cathedral in pursuit of the Murrays who had taken refuge
in the steeple |
|
|
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|
|
|
| 1570-77 |
|
John,
Master of Caithness |
Imprisoned
in Girnigoe Castle by his father |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
|
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| 1570 |
|
William,
4th Lord Sinclair |
Dies,
succeeded by Henry, a |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
|
|
|
supporter
of the Reformation |
|
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| 1571 |
26-Feb |
Rosslyn
Chapel |
Seized
in the Reformation |
Rosslyn
Chapel (The Earl of Rosslyn) |
|
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| 1582 |
09-Sep |
George,
4th Earl |
Dies
in Edinburgh. Buried at Rosslyn. Succeeded by his grandson
George 5th Earl |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
|
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| 1588 |
|
Girnigoe
Castle |
Withstands
siege by the Earl of Sutherland |
The
Clans (Logan) |
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