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| Seizure of the Spanish treasure ships | Dec. | 1568 |
| Embargo in the Low Countries | 3 Jan. | 1569 |
| " in England | 5 " | " |
| Return of the Regent Murray to Scotland | - " | " |
| Inquisition established in the Low Countries | 26 Feb. | " |
| Battle of Jarnac | 13 March | " |
| Henry Middlemore sent into Scotland | - " | " |
| Henry Killegrew sent into Germany | April | " |
| Letters from Queen of Scots seized on the Borders | 22 May | " |
| Ambassador sent from Ivan the Terrible | June | " |
| Forces from the Pope enter France | 4 " | " |
| The Highlands reduced to obedience by Murray | - " | " |
| Convention at St. Johnstone's [Perth] | July | " |
| Examination of French Paris | 10 Aug. | " |
| Execution of French Paris | 16 " | " |
| Maitland of Lethington and James Balfour arrested | Sept. | " |
| Siege of Poitiers | " | " |
| Arrival of English volunteers at Rochelle | " | " |
| Battle of Moncontour | 3 Oct. | " |
| The Commendator of Dunfermline sent to Queen Elizabeth | 5 " | " |
| The Regent Murray takes order on the Borders | 10, 11, Oct. | " |
| Chapin Vitelli at Dover | 16 Oct. | " |
| Mr. Carey sent to Murray | - " | " |
| The French Ambassador requires that the Queen of Scots
shall not be delivered up to her enemies | - " | " |
| Outbreak of the Great Northern Rebellion | 15 Nov. | " |
| Northumberland and Westmoreland fly into Scotland | 20 Dec. | " |
| Northumberland betrayed to Murray | 24 " | " |
| Sir Henry Gates and Drury sent to Murray | 13 Jan. | 1570. |
| Assassination of Murray | 23 " | " |
| Great raids into England | Jan. & Feb. | " |
| Randolph sent into Scotland | 7 Feb. | " |
| Leonard Dacres' Rebellion | 17 " | " |
| Mons. Verac lands at Dumbarton | March | " |
| Convention at Linlithgow | 16 April | " |
| Sussex invades Scotland | 19 " | " |
| Home Castle taken | 28 " | " |
| Fast Castle taken | 4 May | " |
| Sir W. Drury enters Scotland | 12 " | " |
| Treason of Dumbarton | 15 " | " |
| Commendator of Dunfermline arrives at London | 15 " | " |
| Publication of the Bull of Excommunication by John Felton | 25 May | 1570. |
| Drury returns to Berwick | 3 June | " |
| Convention at Stirling | 20 " | " |
| Lennox elected to the Regency | 12 July | " |
| Henry Cobham sent into the Low Countries and Germany | Aug. | " |
| Treaty of St. Germains-en-Laye | 5 " | " |
| Brechin House taken by Lennox | 14 " | " |
| Spanish officers land at Aberdeen | 14 " | " |
| Sussex again invades Scotland | 22 " | " |
| Cobham has audience with Alva | 28 " | " |
| Convention of the Lords of the Queen of Scots' party | 4 Sept. | " |
| Cobham has audience with Maximilian II. | 12 " | " |
| Lethington and others put to the horn | 8 Oct. | " |
| Walsingham sent to the French Court | 19 Dec. | " |
| Lord Buckhurst arrives at Paris | 21 " | " |
| Capture of Dumbarton | 4 April | 1571. |
| Henry Cobham arrives at Madrid | 26 " | " |
| Parliament at Edinburgh | 13 June | " |
| Moscow burnt by the Tartars | 2 July | " |
| Anthony Jenkinson arrives as Ambassador in Russia | 28 " | " |
| Letter from the Duke of Anjou to Queen Elizabeth | 31 " | " |
| Raid of Stirling | 4 Sept. | " |
| Battle of Lepanto | 7 Oct. | " |