Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 23 January â James Fisher, a founder of the Secession church (died 1775)
- 5 February â William Smellie, obstetrician (died 1763)
- 19 September â Alexander Monro, physician and founder of Edinburgh Medical School (died 1767)
- 23 September â Andrew Plummer, physician and chemist (died 1756)
- 2 November â James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry, nobleman, described as 'violently insane'; slaughters, roasts and eats a scullion when just ten years old (died 1715)
- date unknown â Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning, nobleman, politician and poet (died 1732)
Deaths
The arts
- A Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions by William Cleland is published posthumously.
See also
References