1582 in Scotland

Events from the year 1582 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – James VI

Events

 * 22 August – Raid of Ruthven: a political conspiracy of Presbyterian nobles abduct the King.
 * George Buchanan's History of Scotland (Rerum Scoticarum Historia) is first published, in Edinburgh.
 * Donald Monro's Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (1549) is first published.

Births

 * 28 January – John Barclay, writer, satirist and poet (died 1621 in Rome)
 * 7 August – William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland (died 1648)
 * William Lithgow, traveller, writer and alleged spy (died 1645)

Deaths

 * 3 July – James Crichton, polymath (born 1560) (fatally stabbed in Mantua)
 * 28 September – George Buchanan, Scottish historian (born 1506)
 * Mary Livingston, noble and courtier (born c. 1541)