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. 3 February – "Lesser Great Fire" around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless. 30 March – second Darien expedition abandoned. 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh. 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.According to Scrope's Art of Deerstalking cited in the inscription on a stone at the site. Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.
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) George Gilmer Sr., politician in the Colony of Virginia (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
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