1608 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – James VI

Events

Architecture

• May 8 - Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West Lothian.
• Tullibole Castle constructed

Sport

• The Lanark Silver Bell established

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