Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents Monarch William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II) Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)
Events 1690 30 April – 1 May: the Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale. 1692 13 February – massacre of Glencoe: Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe killed by members of Clan Campbell after they refuse to swear allegiance to King William III. 1694 28 December – on the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland. 1695 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre. 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland. 1696 Education Act 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act). 1698 July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, November – the colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama. 1699 The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland. September – the second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.
Births 1692 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770) 1695 5 October – John Glas, clergyman (died 1773) 1696 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758) 1698 February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746) 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer (died 1748) 1699 17 April – Robert Blair, poet (died 1746)
Deaths 1690 3 October – Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker (born 1648) 1692 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671) 1694 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662) 1695 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman (born 1619) 1696 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630) 1697 26 March – Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician (executed for murder) (born c. 1640) 1699 29 November – Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army (born 1635)
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