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HOW IT WORKS
1697 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1697 in the
Kingdom of Scotland
.
←
1696
1695
1694
1693
1692
1697
in
Scotland
→
1698
1699
1700
1701
1702
Centuries:
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Decades:
1670s
1680s
1690s
1700s
1710s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1697 in:
England
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
William II
Secretary of State
–
John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine
, jointly with
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Sir James Stewart
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Sir Patrick Hume
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
vacant??
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Lothian
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Ormiston
Events
edit
8 January
– student
Thomas Aikenhead
becomes the last person in Great Britain to be executed for
blasphemy
when he is
hanged
outside Edinburgh.
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
.
Icelandic-Norwegian historian and professor Th. Torfæus (Þormóður Torfason), publishes his work on the
Orkney
Islands,
Orknøerne
.
Births
edit
23 January
–
James Fisher
, a founder 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
)
23 September
–
Andrew Plummer
, physician and chemist (died
1756
)
2 November
–
James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry
, nobleman, described as 'violently insane'; slaughters, roasts and eats a
scullion
when just ten years old (died
1715
)
date unknown
–
Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning
, nobleman, politician and poet (died
1732
)
Deaths
edit
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
, Royalist and pioneer in British North America (born
1635
)
The arts
edit
A Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions
by
William Cleland
is published posthumously.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit