1690 in Scotland
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Timeline of Scottish history
1690 in: England • Elsewhere
Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland .
Incumbents
[edit ]Law officers
[edit ]Judiciary
[edit ]- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
- Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock
Events
[edit ]- 4 January – Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials[1]
- 25 April – the Parliament of Scotland passes an Act to abolish episcopy in the presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Anglican Episcopal Church in Scotland continues as a separate denomination, retaining bishops. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland also forms
- 30 April–1 May – defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
- 9 October – Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William III and Mary II
- Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic (in Roman characters) adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
- Hearth Tax abolished
- The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally
Births
[edit ]- April – William McGibbon, composer and violinist (died 1756)
- 26 September – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician (died 1764)
- Undated – William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer (died 1746)
Deaths
[edit ]- 3 October – Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer (born 1648)
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Gibson, John (1777). The History of Glasgow: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.