as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns
on 24 March 1603. The kingdoms of England
and Scotland
were individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciary, and laws, though both were ruled by James in personal union
.
He became King of Scotland at the age of thirteen months, succeeding his mother Mary, Queen of Scots, who had been compelled to abdicate
in his favour.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1567 James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1600 The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1600 The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1603 James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1606 The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1622 King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.