1682 in Scotland

Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles II

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Sir David Falconer from 5 June
• Lord Justice General – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen; James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
• Lord Justice Clerk – Sir Richard Maitland

Events

• 11 February – William Douglas is elevated to the rank of Marquess of Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland.
• Advocates Library is founded as the law library of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.
• Chair of Professor of Humanity created at the University of Glasgow.
• Probable date – Inuit seen in Orkney.
• Ongoing – The Killing Time.

Births

• April – James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1742)
• June (in England) – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier (died 1761)
• 24 October – William Aikman, portrait painter (died 1731)
• 23 December – James Gibbs, architect (died 1754)

Deaths

• 6 May (in wreck of HMS Gloucester)
• Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658)
• Sir John Hope of Hopetoun
• 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, politician (born 1616)
• David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, cavalry officer (born c.1600)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1682 in England

References