1690 in Scotland
Events?? from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
- Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock
Events
- 4 January – Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials
- 25 April – the Parliament of Scotland passes an Act to abolish episcopy in the presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Anglican Episcopal Church in Scotland continues as a separate denomination, retaining bishops. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland also forms
- 30 April–1 May – defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
- 9 October – Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William III and Mary II
- Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
- Hearth Tax abolished
- The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally
Births
- April – William McGibbon, composer and violinist
- 26 September – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician
- Undated – William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer
Deaths
- 3 October – Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer