1583 in Scotland

Events from the year 1583 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – James VI

Events

 * June – James VI regains his freedom following the Raid of Ruthven.
 * James VI signs a charter (dated 1582) creating the Tounis College, the modern-day University of Edinburgh.

Births

 * Elizabeth Woodford
 * Approximate date –
 * David Dickson, theologian (died 1663)
 * Alexander Henderson, theologian (died 1646)

Deaths

 * 26 May – Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (born 1542)
 * 13 December – Thomas Smeton, minister and academic (born 1536)
 * December – James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich, lawyer (born c. 1525)
 * Alexander Arbuthnot, minister, academic and poet (born 1538)
 * John Cockburn of Ormiston, Protestant laird