1690s in Scotland

1690s in Scotland

Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Events

1690
* 30 April–1 May - The Jacobite rising of Vicount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale.cite web|url=http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/to1700.html|title=Undiscovered Scotland: Timeline of Scottish History: 1660 to 1700|accessdate=2008-03-26] 1692
* 13 February - Massacre of Glencoe: Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe killed by members of Clan Campbell after they refuse to swear allegiance to King William III.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=285–288] 1694
* 28 December - On the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.1695
* 9 May - Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.
* 1 November - Establishment of the Bank of Scotland.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] 1698
* July - First expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.
* November - The colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.1699
* The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.
* September - The second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.

Births

1692
* 22 April - James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)1695
* 5 October - John Glas, clergyman (died 1773)1696
* 11 June - James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758)1698
* February - Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)1699
* Robert Blair, poet (died 1746)

Deaths

1690
* 3 October - Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker (born 1648)1692
* 3 August - James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671)1694
* 28 December - Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662)1695
* 29 November - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman (born 1619)1696
* 2 August - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)1697
* 26 March - Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician (executed for murder) (born c. 1640)1699
* 29 November - Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army (born 1635)

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