1702 in Scotland

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1702
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1702 in: EnglandWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1702 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchWilliam II (until 8 March), then Anne
  • Secretary of State
    • until 6 May: James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
    • 6 May21 November: James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, jointly with James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
    • from 21 November: James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, jointly with George Mackenzie, 1st Viscount Tarbat

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateSir James Stewart
  • Solicitor General for Scotland

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord North Berwick
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Lothian
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Pollok, then

Events[]

  • c. January/February – the Parliament of Scotland refuses to pass an Abjuration Act analogous to the English Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701.
  • 8 March – King William II of Scotland (William III of England and Ireland and Stadtholder of the Netherlands) dies in London following complications from a fall from his horse when it stumbles on a molehill and is succeeded by Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch on the English, Scottish and Irish thrones.
  • May – "Women's riot" in Stirling in opposition to military impressment.[1]
  • The Advocates Library is moved from the Faculty of Advocates to Parliament House, Edinburgh.
  • A General Election is held in autumn that would assemble the last Parliament of Scotland in May, 1703.

Births[]

  • 8 MayAndrew Lauder, Baronet (died 1769)
  • 18 JulyMaria Clementina Sobieska, wife of James Francis Edward Stuart and mother of Charles Edward Stuart (born in Polish Silesia; died 1735 in Rome)
  • 24 DecemberJohn Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, soldier (died of wounds 1749 in London)
  • date unknownJames Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (died 1768 in London)

Deaths[]

  • 8 March – King William II of Scotland (born 1650 in the Netherlands)
  • Sir Andrew Agnew, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ Harrison, John G. (2011). "Stirling Castle, the Army and the town c.1650-c.1900". Forth Naturalist and Historian. 34: 129–43.


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