1690 in Scotland

Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – Lord Melville

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple
• Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
• Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock

Events

• 4 January – Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials
• 25 April – the Parliament of Scotland passes an Act to abolish episcopy in the presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Anglican Episcopal Church in Scotland continues as a separate denomination, retaining bishops. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland also forms
• 30 April–1 May – defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
• 9 October – Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William III and Mary II
• Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic (in Roman characters) adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
• Hearth Tax abolished
• The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally

Births

• April – William McGibbon, composer and violinist (died 1756)
• 26 September – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician (died 1764)
• Undated – William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer (died 1746)

Deaths

• 3 October – Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer (born 1648)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

References