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1587 CE, February 8

Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on February 8, 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, in Northamptonshire. After nineteen years in captivity, she was found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I and was beheaded at age 44 becoming the first anointed English monarch to be executed.

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