September – parliament meets and spends 20 days drafting an ordinance for Scottish administration.[1]John of Brittany is appointed to serve as Guardian, assisted by a council of 22 Scottish aristocrats.[2]
Approximate date – Scottish physician Bernard Gordon writes his short treatise Lilium medicinae which will become the first known book by a Scot to be printed (c. 1480 in Paris).
Deaths
23 August – William Wallace, landowner and leader of Scottish resistance. Executed in London.