Events in the Kingdom of Scotland – 1700
Incumbents
Monarch: William II
Secretary of State: James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
Law Officers
Lord Advocate: Sir James Stewart
Solicitor General for Scotland: Sir Patrick Hume
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session: Lord North Berwick
Lord Justice General: Lord Lothian
Lord Justice Clerk: Lord Pollok
Major Events
- 5 January – Moffat schoolteacher Robert Carmichael is scourged through the streets of Edinburgh and banished for killing a pupil during punishment for misbehaviour.
- 3 February – “Lesser Great Fire” around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless.
- 30 March – The second Darien expedition is abandoned.
- 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh.
- Approximate date around 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.
- Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.
Notable Births
- 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
- 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)
Notable Deaths
- 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
An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie’s The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.