- Source: 1692 in Scotland
Events from the year 1692 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
Monarch – William II and Mary II
Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston (from 3 March)
= Law officers
=Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple, then Sir James Stewart
Solicitor General for Scotland – ??
= Judiciary
=Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cessnock, then Lord Ormiston
Events
13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38 Jacobite-sympathising MacDonald of Glencoe from whom they have previously accepted hospitality.
Births
May – James Stirling mathematician, (died 1770)
25 May – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, peer, mortally wounded at the Battle of Sheriffmuir (died 1715)
date unknown –
Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, judge and Lord Justice Clerk (died 1776)
George Young, surgeon, physician, philosopher and empiric (died 1757)
Deaths
20 March – George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier (born 1635)
2 April – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh (born 1595)
14 May – Robert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist (born 1644)
3 August –
Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born c.1642)
James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born 1671)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kastel Urquhart
- Pemberontakan Jacobite 1745
- Monarki Britania Raya
- Pindah agama menjelang ajal
- Perkawinan sejenis
- 1692 in Scotland
- 1692
- Massacre of Glencoe
- 1692 in science
- Scotland
- James Stirling
- Henderson Stone
- Grizel
- Lord Chancellor of Scotland
- Land Tax (England)
