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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use Scottish English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland|1698}}Events from the year 1698 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents - Monarch – William II
- Secretary of State – John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine (until 31 March 1698), jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield
Law officers - Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant?? until 17 March, then Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston
Events - Famine in the Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
- 14 July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.[1][2]
- November – colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.
Births - February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
- 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher and writer (died 1748)
date unknown- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (died 1770)
- Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, landowner, Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland (died 1778)
- John Gow, pirate (executed in London 1725)
Deaths - John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, Army officer (died 1767)
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
References 1. ^{{cite book|first=John|last=Prebble|authorlink=John Prebble|title=The Darien Disaster: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698-1700|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|year=1968}} 2. ^{{cite book|first=John|last=Prebble|title=Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Birlinn|year=2000|isbn=1-84158-054-6}}
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