1593 in Scotland

Events from the year 1593 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – James VI

Events

 * 24 July - Raid of Holyrood, the rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell infiltrates Holyrood Palace.
 * 12 November – decree orders Catholics to give up their faith or leave the country.
 * 7 December – Battle of Dryfe Sands: the Clan Johnstone defeat the Clan Maxwell at Skipmyre, just west of Lockerbie, and Lord Maxwell is killed.
 * Marischal College is founded in Aberdeen by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal.
 * Emergence of the Presbytery of Glasgow within the developing Presbyterian polity.
 * The Banffshire constituency is first represented in the Parliament of Scotland (by Sir Walter Ogilvie).

Births

 * 13 April – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English politician (executed 1641)
 * 2 May – John Forbes of Corse, theologian (died 1648)
 * Robert Blair, moderator (died 1666)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant (born 1529)
 * 4 February – Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney (born 1533/4)
 * 26 May – William Baillie, Lord Provand, judge
 * 23 August – Adam Bothwell, bishop, judge and politician (born c.1527)
 * 26 September – William Chisholm, bishop of Dunblane (born 1525/6)
 * 7 December – John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell (born 1553)
 * date unknown –
 * William Ashby, English politician
 * William Forbes of Corsindae