1690s in Scotland

Incumbents

• William II, r. 1689–1702
• Mary II r. 1689–1694

Events

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

• 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.

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

• 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.
• 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland.

• Education Act 1696 ordains a school in every parish.

• July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.
• November – the colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.

• The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.
• September – the second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.

Births

• 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician

• 5 October – John Glas, clergyman

• 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier

• February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
• 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer

• 17 April – Robert Blair, poet

Deaths

• 3 October – Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker

• 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier

• 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots

• 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman

• 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe

• 26 March – Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician

• 29 November – Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army