1692 in Scotland

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1692
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1692 in: EnglandElsewhere

Events from the year 1692 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchWilliam II and Mary II
  • Secretary of StateJohn Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston (from 3 March)

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateJohn Dalrymple, then Sir James Stewart
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord Stair
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Lothian
  • Lord Justice Clerk – , then Lord Ormiston
After the Massacre of Glencoe (13 February), painted in 1889 by Peter Graham

Events[]

  • 13 FebruaryMassacre 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.[1]

Births[]

  • May – James Stirling mathematician, (died 1770)
  • 25 MayArchibald 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 MarchGeorge Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier (born )
  • 2 AprilSir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh (born 1595)
  • 14 MayRobert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist (born )
  • 3 August
    • Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born )
    • James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born )

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ Prebble, John (1966). Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre. London: Secker & Warburg.


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