| James dies, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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| He is succeeded by son Charles I.
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| National Covenant signed. Leads to the Covenanting movement and eventual military action against Charles I.
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| Charles I executed, and Britain is soon declared Republic, with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector.
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| Cromwell attempts to unite Scotland and England.
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| King James VII & II, a Catholic, flees the country. Parliament sees this as abdication. William of Orange becomes the first constitutional monarch.
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| Act of Settlement bars Catholics from becoming monarchs.
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| Act of Union is passed, uniting Scotland and England's parliaments.
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| Prince George succeeds to the throne. The House of Hanover remains until death of Victoria almost two hundred years later in 1901. The Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Windsor) line continues with the present day monarch Elizabeth II.
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| The Jacobite rebellion, led by James Francis Edward Stewart, (the Old Pretender) fails and he returns to France.
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| The final Jacobite uprising, as James VII's grand-son, Charles Edward Stewart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) attempts to win the crown for the Stewart line, ends with the Battle of Culloden.
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| An occasional resurgence of national sentiments: Wembley 1967.
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| The Stone of Destiny returns for the second time to Scotland.
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| The official opening of the Scottish Parliament. |
