1698 in Scotland
Events from the year 1698 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch – William II
- Secretary of State – John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine, jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant?? until 17 March, then Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston
Events
- Famine in the Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
- 14 July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.
- November – colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.
Births
- February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
- 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher and writer
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet
- Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, landowner, Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland
- John Gow, pirate