Events from the year 1597 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents Monarch – James VI
Events 4 February – Battle of Logiebride, a skirmish between men of the Clan Mackenzie against those of the Clan Munro and the Bain family of Tulloch Castle. March–October – The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597. 14 July – poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot. 17 July – George Heriot is appointed as goldsmith to the queen consort Anne of Denmark.Arnold Hunt, Dora Thornton, George Dalgleish, "A Jacobean antiquary reassessed: Thomas Lyte, the Lyte genealogy and the Lyte jewel", The Antiquaries Journal, 96 (2016), p. 188. 23 July – Earthquake in the Highlands. Lands of the Clan MacLeod are forfeit to the Crown. Scottish Poor Laws make parishes rather than the church responsible for the administration of poor relief. King James VI's Daemonologie is published.
Births Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, soldier (murdered 1645) Approximate date: Robert Bethune (died 1660), 1st Laird of Bandon. Lady Mary Erskine, Countess Marischal Andrew Murray, 1st Lord Balvaird, minister (died 1644)
Deaths 11 March – Henry Drummond, evangelical writer and lecturer 27 May – James Tyrie, Jesuit theologian (born 1543) Sir Thomas Maclellan of Bombie, Provost of Kirkcudbright
See also Timeline of Scottish history
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