1690s in Scotland

Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland .

Incumbents

Monarch

• William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
• Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)

Events

1690

• 30 April – 1 May: the Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale. ^[1]

1692

• 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]

1694

• 28 December – on the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland. ^[2]

1695

• 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre. ^[2]
• 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland. ^[3]

1696

• Education Act 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).

1698

• 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]}

1699

• 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

1692

• 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)

1695

• 5 October – John Glas, clergyman (died 1773)

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

1690

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

1692

• 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671)

1694

• 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662)

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

1. Site Record for Cromdale, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  285–288. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
4. John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
5. Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, ISBN   1-84158-054-6