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词条 1690s in Scotland
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  1. Incumbents

  2. Events

  3. Births

  4. Deaths

  5. References

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Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

Monarch of Scotland
  • William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
  • Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)

Duke of Rothesay, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland etc.

  • Vacant

Events

1690
  • 30 April – 1 May: the Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale.[1]
1692
  • 13 February – massacre of Glencoe: Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe killed by members of Clan Campbell after they refuse to swear allegiance to King William III.[2]
1694
  • 28 December – on the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.[2]
1695
  • 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.[2]
  • 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland.[3]
1696
  • Education Act of 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).
1698
  • July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.[4][5]
  • November – the colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.[4][5]
1699
  • The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.[4][5]
  • September – the second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.[4][5]

Births

1692
  • 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)
1695
  • 5 October – John Glas, clergyman (died 1773)
1696
  • 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758)
1698
  • February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
  • 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer (died 1748)
1699
  • 17 April – Robert Blair, poet (died 1746)

Deaths

1690
  • 3 October – Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker (born 1648)
1692
  • 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671)
1694
  • 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662)
1695
  • 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman (born 1619)
1696
  • 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)
1697
  • 26 March – Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician (executed for murder) (born c. 1640)
1699
  • 29 November – Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army (born 1635)

References

1. ^{{citation | url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/15976/ | title=Site Record for Cromdale | publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland }}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=285–288}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
4. ^John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
5. ^Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, {{ISBN|1-84158-054-6}}

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