1600 in Scotland
Events from the year '''1600 in the Kingdom of Scotland'''
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January – today is adopted as New Year's Day following the partial adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in Scotland
- 20 March – Construction of Cullen House in Moray begins.
- 5 August – the Gowrie [House (Perth, Scotland)|Gowrie House] affair, a plot to kidnap James VI in Perth, in which Robert Logan of Restalrig is implicated, devised by John Ruthven, [3rd Earl of Gowrie]
- 19 November – the future King Charles I of England and Scotland, son of James VI, is born in Dunfermline Palace
- Scalloway Castle is built on Mainland, Shetland, by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney
Births
- 19 November – Charles I at Dunfermline Palace, king of England and Scotland
- November – John Ogilby, cartographer
- Approximate date
- * David Leslie, Lord Newark, soldier
- * Samuel Rutherford, theologian
Deaths
- March – Margaret Stuart, royal princess
- 5 August – Gowrie House affair
- *John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, nobleman and kidnapper
- *Alexander Ruthven, master of Ruthven
- 12 December – John Craig, minister