1700 in Scotland

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II
• Secretary of State – James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Pollok

Events

• 5 January – Moffat schoolteacher Robert Carmichael is scourged through the streets of Edinburgh and banished for killing a pupil during punishment for misbehaviour.
• 3 February – "Lesser Great Fire" around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless.
• 30 March – second Darien expedition abandoned.

• 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh.
• Approximate date about which the independent pro-Union group later known as the Squadrone Volante forms around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
• Possible approximate date at which the last wolf in Scotland is shot, north of Brora in Sutherland.
• Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.

Births

• April – John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (died 1759)
• 27 August – Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (died 1785)
• 11 September – James Thomson, poet (died 1748)

Full date unknown

• George Bogle of Daldowie, tobacco and sugar merchant and Rector of the University of Glasgow (died 1784)
• George Gilmer Sr., politician in the Colony of Virginia (died 1757)

Deaths

• March – Andrew Bruce, bishop (year of birth unknown)
• 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester heir to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1689)
• 16 November – Jamie Macpherson, outlaw (born 1675)

The arts

• An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

References