1690s in Scotland
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Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents[edit]
- William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
- Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)
Events[edit]
- 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 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ Site Record for Cromdale, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 285–288. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c d John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
- ^ a b c d Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, ISBN 1-84158-054-6