Timeline of the Kings and Queens of Scotland

900 1000 1100

Constantine III
Constantine II

Malcolm III,
Constantine I

margaret
and gruoch

IV
Malcolm III
macalpin

and also Duncan II

Kenneth III

Alexander I
kenneth

Kenneth II
Malcolm I

Donald Bane III

Donald II

Duncan I
Giric and

Macbeth
Donald I

david i
married
Eochaid

queen
Cuiléan

Lulach
Indulf
Dubh

Edgar

Malcolm
Aedh

l i am n
l
w ih e l i o 1200
844 840s From the 800s for a few centuries 1018 1070 1124 t
Merging of The Stone The Norse (Vikings) control Shetland Scotland Margaret founds First mint
the Picts of Destiny and Orkney, invading the Western Isles captures Lothian Dunfermline Priory, produces
and the is moved and northern Scottish mainland. from the Angles, which becomes Scottish
Scots creates from Iona There is no clear border between and absorbs Dunfermline Abbey, currency
Scotia to Scone Scotland and England the Britons of where Scottish
(Scotland) Strathclyde monarchs are buried
Ale 1235
xan First Scottish
1500 1400 1300 der Parliament
II

Edward Balliol

alexander
John Balliol
Maid of Norway
1237
james iv

Robert III
of scots

James III

Robert II

David II
James II
James V

robert
James I

Margaret,
queen
mary,

English–Scottish

bruce
the
border resolved

iii
Jam
1600 es
VI 1266
an 1603 1508 1472 1437 1320 1314 1296 The Norse concede
dI
thuencion of
James VI of Scotland is also First Orkney and Edinburgh Scotland asserts The Scots, led by Edward I of ownership of
later crowned as James I of printing Shetland recognised independence in Bruce, defeat the England invades theWestern Isles to
rown Britain. After this ‘Union press in become part as capital of the Declaration of English army Scotland, seizes Scotland
s of the Crowns’, kings and Scotland of Scotland Scotland Arbroath at the Battle of Stone of Destiny.
queens of Scotland are Bannockburn William Wallace
also kings and queens of resists
other British nations

lesI 1700 1800 1900 2000

C har
William II and III

Edward VIII
I

Edward VII

Elizabeth II
William IV

victoria
sI

George III

George IV

George VI
Charles II

James VII

George II

George V
George I
Mary II
e
arl

Anne
Ch

1707 1746 1750–1850 1886 1996 1999

Union of Jacobites defeated at Crofting families removed Scottish crofters gain Stone of First
Scottish Battle of Culloden; by force from their land in land tenure for the first Destiny devolved
and English Flora MacDonald rescues the Highland Clearances; time, protecting their returns to Scottish
Parliaments Bonnie Prince Charlie thousands leave for Canada, homes and livelihoods Scotland Parliament
USA, New Zealand, Australia

There have been four Approximate dates: Up until about the year 1200,
periods in the story of there are often no records of exact years for key events,
Scotland when there births and deaths. The early dates on this timeline and
was no king or queen through the book are historians’ best guesses.

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