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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use Scottish English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1708 }}Events from the year 1708 in Scotland. Incumbents - Monarch – Anne
- Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar
Law officers - Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
- Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston
Events - 11 March – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- 23 March – James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth with a French fleet.[1]
- 30 April – 7 July – British general election: New Scottish Westminster constituencies are used for the first time.
- 1 May – Privy Council of Scotland abolished.[2]
- Treason Act harmonises the law of high treason in Scotland with that of England.
- Chairs of Moral Philosophy and of Logic & Metaphysics established in the University of Edinburgh. Regent system of teaching here abolished.[2]
Births - 15 February – Alexander Hume-Campbell, nobleman and politician (died 1760)
- 8 March – John Campbell, author (died 1775)
- Thomas Gillespie, Presbyterian minister and founder of the Relief Church (died 1774)
- Probable date – William Guthrie, historian (died 1770)
Deaths - 21 June – John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton, anti-Union politician (born 1656; died in London)
- 10 October – David Gregory, mathematician and astronomer (born 1659)
- 16 November – Alexander Edward, Episcopalian minister, architect and landscape designer (born 1651)
See also References 1. ^{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=292}}
2. ^1 {{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|title=Chronology of Scottish History|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|location=New Lanark|year=2002|isbn=1-85534-380-0}}
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