1690 in Scotland
# 1690 in Scotland

Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – William II and Mary II
* Secretary of State – Lord Melville

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple
* Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
* Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock

## Events

* 4 January – Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials
* 25 April – the Parliament of Scotland passes an Act to abolish episcopy in the presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Anglican Episcopal Church in Scotland continues as a separate denomination, retaining bishops. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland also forms
* 30 April–1 May – defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
* 9 October – Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William III and Mary II
* Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic (in Roman characters) adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
* Hearth Tax abolished
* The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally

## Births

* April – William McGibbon, composer and violinist (died 1756)
* 26 September – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician (died 1764)
* Undated – William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer (died 1746)

## Deaths

* 3 October – Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer (born 1648)
