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1700 in Scotland 
Summary
Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
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| See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1700 in: England • Wales • Elsewhere | ||||
Incumbents edit
- Monarch – William II
- Secretary of State – James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
Law officers edit
Judiciary edit
Events edit
- 5 January – Moffat schoolteacher Robert Carmichael is scourged through the streets of Edinburgh and banished for killing a pupil during punishment for misbehaviour.[1]
- 3 February – "Lesser Great Fire" around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless.[2]
- 30 March – second Darien expedition abandoned.[3][4]
- 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh.[5]
- Approximate date about which the independent pro-Union group later known as the Squadrone Volante forms around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
- Possible approximate date at which the last wolf in Scotland is shot, north of Brora in Sutherland.[6]
- Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.[7]
Births edit
- April – John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (died 1759)
- 27 August – Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (died 1785)
- 11 September – James Thomson, poet (died 1748)
Full date unknown edit
- George Bogle of Daldowie, tobacco and sugar merchant and Rector of the University of Glasgow (died 1784)
- Donald Cameron of Lochiel (died 1748)
- George Gilmer Sr., politician (died 1757)
Deaths edit
- March – Andrew Bruce, bishop (year of birth unknown)
- 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester heir to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1689)
- 16 November – Jamie Macpherson, outlaw (born 1675)
The arts edit
- An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ Colville, Ian (8 February 2011). "The Lesser Great Fire of 1700 in Edinburgh". On this day in Scotland. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ Prebble, John (2000). Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. ISBN 1-84158-054-6.
- ^ "Undiscovered Scotland, timeline". Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
- ^ "Charter of erection". Records of the Parliaments of Scotland. University of St Andrews. 1700. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ According to Scrope's Art of Deerstalking cited in the inscription on a stone at the site."The demise of Scotland's wolves". BBC. 31 January 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ "Welcome to Scotland, CT". www.scotlandct.org. Retrieved 26 June 2017.