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Born in Edinburgh Castle in the year of 1566, son of his father Lord Darnley Henrey Stuart and his mother Mary Queen of Scots.
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Darnley, James father, was murdured 8 months after James was born.
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James became King James VI of Scotland aged 13 months in July 1567, and was crowned at Stirling.
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His mother married again, but in 1567 was forced to renounce the throne of Scotland. Mary fled to England where she was eventually executed following Catholic plots against Elizabeth I in 1587.
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A suitable Queen was found for him in Anne of Denmark and they were married in 1589.
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When Elizabeth I of England died in 1603 unmarried, James moved to London and was crowned King James I of England the first of the Stuart Kings of the combined crowns of England and Scotland.
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James proclaims that smoking is harmful to the lungs and imposes a tax on tobacco that enrages the commoners of England.
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Guy Fawkes and other Catholic dissidents attempt to blow up King and Parliament in The Gunpowder Plot. They are betrayed and arrested.
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The Gunpowder plotters are executed. 120 colonists sail for America.
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Death of James I at Theobalds Park, aged 58.
