1700 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

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

Events

• 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

• 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)

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.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

Notes and References

1. Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm. 26 January 2016. dead. dmy-all.
2. Web site: Ian. Colville. The Lesser Great Fire of 1700 in Edinburgh. On this day in Scotland. 2011-02-08. 2016-03-01.
3. Book: Prebble, John. John Prebble. Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. 2000. 1-84158-054-6.
4. Web site: Undiscovered Scotland, timeline. 2008-01-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20090620064642/http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/to1740.html. 20 June 2009. live. dmy.
5. Web site: Charter of erection. Records of the Parliaments of Scotland. University of St Andrews. 1700. 2014-06-03.
6. According to Scrope's Art of Deerstalking cited in the inscription on a stone at the site.Web site: The demise of Scotland's wolves. BBC. 2007-01-31. 2014-06-03.
7. Web site: Welcome to Scotland, CT. www.scotlandct.org. 26 June 2017. en.