1700 in Scotland
# 1700 in Scotland

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – William II
* Secretary of State – James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
* Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Pollok

## Events

* 5 January – Moffat schoolteacher Robert Carmichael is scourged through the streets of Edinburgh and banished for killing a pupil during punishment for misbehaviour.
* 3 February – "Lesser Great Fire" around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless.
* 30 March – second Darien expedition abandoned.
* 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh.
* Approximate date about which the independent pro-Union group later known as the Squadrone Volante forms around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
* Possible approximate date at which the last wolf in Scotland is shot, north of Brora in Sutherland.
* Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.

## Births

* April – John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (died 1759)
* 27 August – Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (died 1785)
* 11 September – James Thomson, poet (died 1748)

### Full date unknown

* George Bogle of Daldowie, tobacco and sugar merchant and Rector of the University of Glasgow (died 1784)
* Donald Cameron of Lochiel (died 1748)
* George Gilmer Sr., politician (died 1757)

## Deaths

* March – Andrew Bruce, bishop (year of birth unknown)
* 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester heir to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1689)
* 16 November – Jamie Macpherson, outlaw (born 1675)

## The arts

* An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.
