• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston (from 3 March)

Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple, then Sir James Stewart
• Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

Judiciary edit

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
• Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cessnock, then Lord Ormiston

• 13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38 Jacobite-sympathising MacDonald of Glencoe from whom they have previously accepted hospitality.^[1]

• 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)

• 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)

• Timeline of Scottish history