1698 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1698 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch - William II
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.[1][2]
- November - Colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.
Births
- February - Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
- 11 July - George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher and writer (died 1748)
date unknown
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (died 1770)
- Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, landowner, Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland (died 1778)
- John Gow, pirate (executed in London 1725)
Deaths
- John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, Army officer (died 1767)
See also
References
- ↑ Prebble, John (1968). The Darien Disaster: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698-1700. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- ↑ Prebble, John (2000). Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-054-6.
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