1689 in Scotland explained

Events from 1689 in the Kingdom of Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II and Mary II (from 11 May)
• Secretary of State – John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort, then from 13 May George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville

Events

• 16 March - 5 June – Convention of the Estates of Scotland sits to determine the settlement of the Scottish throne following the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William, Prince of Orange in 1688
• 18 March – King's Own Scottish Borderers is raised to defend Edinburgh against Jacobite forces
• 4 April – Convention of Estates votes to remove James VII from office for forfeiture; going on to adopt the Claim of Right Act 1689
• 20 April – Robert Lundy secretly flees Derry for Scotland.^[1]
• 11 May – William and Mary accept the Convention's offer of the crown on the day they are crowned King and Queen of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey
• 16 May – Battle of Loup Hill on Kintyre between Jacobite forces commanded by Donald MacNeill of Gallchoille and government forces commanded by Captain William Young
• c. 5 June – Lords of the Articles abolished
• 22 July – the Parliament of Scotland votes to abolish episcopacy
• 27 July – Battle of Killiecrankie: Covenanter supporters of William and Mary (under Hugh Mackay) are defeated by the Jacobites though the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed
• 21 August – Battle of Dunkeld: the Orange Covenanter Cameronian Guard defeat the Jacobite clans in street fighting though the Cameronian Colonel William Cleland is killed

Births

• 7 January – Robert Murray, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1738)
• 14 April – William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, soldier and Jacobite leader (died 1746 in the Tower of London)
• October – William Adam, architect, mason and entrepreneur (died 1748)

Deaths

• 31 March – George Lockhart, advocate and Member of Parliament (born 1630)
• 27 July – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, nobleman and soldier, killed at the Battle of Killiecrankie (born 1648)
• 21 August – William Cleland, poet and soldier, killed at the Battle of Dunkeld (born 1661)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

Notes and References

1. Web site: Piers. Wauchope. Lundy, Robert (d. before 1717). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/17193.