• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, jointly with James Johnston

Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – 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 Ormiston

• 14 June – Parliament turns its attention to an 'Act for Encouraging of Forraigne Trade' – that would lead to the Darien Scheme^[1]
• Start of the "seven ill years" of famine in Scotland

date unknown –

• John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1770)

• 9 April – Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras, nobleman (born 1644)
• 15 May – John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany, peer (born c.1640)

date unknown

• Alexander Fraser, 11th Lord Saltoun, peer (born 1604)
• George Munro, 1st of Newmore, soldier and member of parliament 1602)

• Timeline of Scottish history