Events from the year 1696 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents Monarch – William II Secretary of State – James Johnston, until January or February; then John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine (from 15 January) jointly with James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (from 5 February)
Law officers Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant?? Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston
Events February – the Bank of Scotland opens for business 8 September – Education Act passed by parliament to establish schools in every parish in the country. Perth Academy founded. Famine in the Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier and Prussian field marshal (died 1758) 15 September – Sir Archibald Grant, 2nd Baronet, company speculator and Member of parliament for Aberdeenshire, 1722–1732 (died 1772) date unknown – William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, peer (died 1763) Henry Home, Lord Kames, advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver (died 1782) John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, peer, died at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 Anne O'Brien, 2nd Countess of Orkney, noblewoman, (died 1756)
Deaths 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, a commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630) date unknown – Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard, soldier (born 1623)
See also Timeline of Scottish history
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