1690 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — William II and Mary II
- Secretary of State — Lord Melville
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Stair
- Lord Justice General — Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock
Events
- 4 January — Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials[1]
- 30 April–1 May — Defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
- 9 October — Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William and Mary
- Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland formed
- Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic (in Roman characters) adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
- Hearth Tax abolished
- The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally
Births
- April — William McGibbon, composer and violinist (died 1756)
- 26 September — James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician (died 1764)
- Undated — William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer (died 1746)
Deaths
- 3 October — Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer (born 1648)
See also
References
- ↑ Gibson, John (1777). The History of Glasgow: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.
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