1690s in Scotland explained

1690s

Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

Monarch

• William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
• Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)

Events

1690

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

1692

• 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.^[1]

1694

• 28 December – on the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.^[1]

1695

• 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.^[1]
• 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland.^[2]

1696

• Education Act 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).

1698

• July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.^{[3] [4]}
• November – the colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.^{[3] [4]}

1699

• The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.^{[3] [4]}
• September – the second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.^{[3] [4]}

Births

1692

• 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)

1695

• 5 October – John Glas, clergyman (died 1773)

1696

• 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758)

1698

• February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
• 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer (died 1748)

1699

• 17 April – Robert Blair, poet (died 1746)

Deaths

1690

• 3 October – Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker (born 1648)

1692

• 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671)

1694

• 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662)

1695

• 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman (born 1619)

1696

• 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)

1697

• 26 March – Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician (executed for murder) (born c. 1640)

1699

• 29 November – Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army (born 1635)

Notes and References

1. Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 285–288.
2. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
3. John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
4. Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John,