1692 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1692 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch - William II and Mary II
Events
- 13 February - Massacre of Glencoe
Births
- May - James Stirling mathematician, (died 1770)
- 25 May - Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, peer, mortally wounded at the Battle of Sheriffmuir (died 1715)
date unknown
- Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, judge and Lord Justice Clerk (died 1776)
- George Young, surgeon, physician, philosopher and empiric (died 1757)
Deaths
- 20 March - George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier (born 1635)
- 2 April - Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh (born 1595)
- 14 May - Robert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist (born 1644)
- 3 August:
- Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born c.1642)
- James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born 1671)
See also
References
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