1697 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch - William II
Events
- 10 June - The last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when five Paisley witches are hanged and then burned.
- Famine in the Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births
- 23 January - James Fisher, one of the founders of the Secession church (died 1775)
- 5 February - William Smellie, obstetrician (died 1763)
- 19 September - Alexander Monro, physician and founder of Edinburgh Medical School (died 1767)
- 2 November - James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry, nobleman, described as 'violently insane', who slaughtered, roasted and ate a scullion when just ten years old (died 1715)
date unknown
- Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning, nobleman, politician and poet (died 1732)
- Andrew Plummer, physician and chemist (died 1756)
Deaths
- 8 January - Thomas Aikenhead, student and last person in Great Britain executed for blasphemy (born 1676)
- 11 August - John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (1692–96), (born 1625)
date unknown
- Alexander Gordon pioneer (born 1635)
The Arts
- A Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions by William Cleland is published posthumously.
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