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HOW IT WORKS
1698 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1698 in the
Kingdom of Scotland
.
←
1697
1696
1695
1694
1693
1698
in
Scotland
→
1699
1700
1701
1702
1703
Centuries:
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Decades:
1670s
1680s
1690s
1700s
1710s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1698 in:
England
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
William II
Secretary of State
–
John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine
(until 31 March 1698), jointly with
James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield
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??
until 17 March, then
Lord North Berwick
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Lothian
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Ormiston
Events
edit
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
edit
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
edit
John Leslie
, 10th Earl of Rothes, Army officer (died
1767
)
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
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
.