1608 in Scotland
Events in the year 1608 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
Architecture
- May 8 - Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West Lothian.
- Tullibole Castle constructed
Sport
Births
- James Steuart of Coltness, merchant, banker, landowner, politician and Covenanter.
Deaths
- 26 February – Thomas Craig, jurist and poet
- 15 May – Archibald Napier landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston
- 9 November - John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, peer, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland.
Full date missing
- George Bannatyne, merchant, collector of Scottish poems
- Alexander Campbell of Carco, noble and prelate
- William Barclay, jurist