View source for Perth, Scotland

===15th–19th centuries===
[[File:Perth_map_of_1832.jpg|thumb|An 1832 map of Perth by [[James Gardner (surveyor)|James Gardner]]. It shows only one bridge (Perth Bridge) crossing the Tay. [[Tay Street]] had not yet been built, though some buildings exist on what would be its western side. St John's Kirk is marked]]

King [[James I of Scotland]] was assassinated in Perth in 1437, by followers of [[Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl]], at [[Blackfriars, Perth|Blackfriars church]].<ref>Brown, "James I (1394–1437)".</ref>

In May 1559, [[John Knox]] instigated the [[Scottish Reformation]] at grass-roots level with a sermon against 'idolatry' in the burgh kirk of St John the Baptist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Roderick |title=John Knox: Man of Action |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKlV-mkYDJMC&q=Perth+St+John+the+Baptist+Knox&pg=PA144 |year=2013 |publisher=St Andrew Press |isbn=9780861537150 |page=144 |access-date=21 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821174344/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PKlV-mkYDJMC&lpg=PA144&dq=Perth%20St%20John%20the%20Baptist%20Knox&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=Perth%20St%20John%20the%20Baptist%20Knox&f=false |archive-date=21 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> An inflamed mob quickly destroyed the altars in the kirk, and attacked the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, and the [[Carthusian]] Priory. Scone Abbey was sacked shortly afterwards. The regent of infant [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], her mother [[Marie de Guise]], was successful in quelling the rioting but [[presbyterianism]] in Perth remained strong. Perth played a part in the Covenanting struggle and Perth was sacked for two days by Royalist troops after the [[Battle of Tippermuir]] in 1644.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bell |first1=W. F. |title=South Perthshire and the covenanting struggle |journal=Scottish Church History Society |date=1926 |pages=57–64 |url=https://archive.org/stream/rschsv01p1bell#page/57 |access-date=25 August 2018}}</ref> In 1651, [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] was crowned at nearby Scone Abbey, the traditional site of the investiture of Kings of Scots. That same year, [[Oliver Cromwell]] came to Perth following his victory in the [[Battle of Dunbar (1650)|Battle of Dunbar]] and established a fortified citadel on the [[South Inch]], one of five occupation forts built to control Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.perthcity.co.uk/index.asp?pg=61 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824192418/http://www.perthcity.co.uk/index.asp?pg=61 |url-status=dead |title=Bridges |archive-date=24 August 2012}}</ref> The restoration of Charles II was not without incident, and with the [[Act of Settlement 1701|Act of Settlement]] in 1701, came the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] uprisings. The city was occupied by Jacobite soldiers in 1689, 1715 and 1745.

In 1760, Perth Academy was founded, and major industry came to the city, now with a population of 15,000. [[Linen]], leather, [[bleach]]ed products and [[whisky]] were its major exports. Given its location, Perth was perfectly placed to become a key transport centre with the coming of the railways. The first railway station in Perth was built in 1848. Horse-drawn carriages became popular in the 1890s; they were quickly replaced by electric trams of [[Perth Corporation Tramways]].