Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles II
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Sir David Falconer from 5 June Lord Justice General – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen; James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth Lord Justice Clerk – Sir Richard Maitland
Events 11 February – William Douglas is elevated to the rank of Marquess of Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland. Advocates Library is founded as the law library of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. Chair of Professor of Humanity created at the University of Glasgow. Probable date – Inuit seen in Orkney. Ongoing – The Killing Time.
Births April – James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1742) June (in England) – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier (died 1761) 24 October – William Aikman, portrait painter (died 1731) 23 December – James Gibbs, architect (died 1754)
Deaths 6 May (in wreck of HMS Gloucester) Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658) Sir John Hope of Hopetoun 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, politician (born 1616) David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, cavalry officer (born c.1600)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history 1682 in England
References