1608 in Scotland
# 1608 in Scotland

Events in the year 1608 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – James VI

## Events

### Architecture

* May 8 – Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West Lothian.
* Tullibole Castle constructed

### Sport

* The Lanark Silver Bell (horse racing trophy) established

## Births

* James Steuart of Coltness, merchant, banker, landowner, politician and Covenanter (d. 1681).

## Deaths

* 26 February – Thomas Craig, jurist and poet (born c.1538)
* 15 May – Archibald Napier landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston (b. 1534)
* 9 November – John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, peer, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (b. 1548).

### Full date missing

* George Bannatyne, merchant, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)
* Alexander Campbell of Carco, noble and prelate
* William Barclay, jurist (b. 1546)
