1690s in Scotland
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Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
- William II of Scotland/III of England and Ireland, r. 1689-1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
- Mary II of Scotland, II of England and Ireland, r. 1689-1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)
Duke of Rothesay, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland etc.
- Vacant
Events
- 30 April–1 May - The Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale.[1]
- 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]
- 28 December - On the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.[2]
- 9 May - Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.[2]
- 1 November - Establishment of the Bank of Scotland.[3]
- Education Act of 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).
- July - First expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.[4][5]
- November - The colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.[4][5]
- The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.[4][5]
- September - The second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.[4][5]
Births
1692
- 22 April - James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)
1695
1696
- 11 June - James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758)
1698
- February - Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
- 11 July - George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer (died 1748)
1699
- 17 April - 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
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
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698-1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, ISBN 1-84158-054-6