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- See also
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use Scottish English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland|1690}}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[1]
- 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
- Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland formed
- 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)
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
References 1. ^{{cite book|title=The History of Glasgow: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time|first=John|last=Gibson|year=1777|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA101 }}
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