Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

Monarch of Scotland

• William III of England/II of Scotland/I of Ireland, r. 1689-1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
• Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, r. 1689-1694 (Co-monarch with William III, II, and I)

Duke of Rothesay, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland and etc.

• Vacant

Events

1690

• 30 April 1 May - The Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale.^[1]

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.^[2]

1694

• 28 December - On the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.^[2]

1695

• 9 May - Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.^[2]
• 1 November - Establishment of the Bank of Scotland.^[3]

1696

• Education Act of 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).

1698

• July - First expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.^[1]
• November - The colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.^[1]

1699

• The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.^[1]
• September - The second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.^[1]

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)

References