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  • 1694

  • 1693

  • 1692

  • 1691


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1696
in
Scotland




  • 1697

  • 1698

  • 1699

  • 1700

  • 1701



Centuries:


  • 15th

  • 16th

  • 17th

  • 18th

  • 19th



Decades:


  • 1670s

  • 1680s

  • 1690s

  • 1700s

  • 1710s


See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1696 in: England • Ireland • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1696 in the Kingdom of Scotland.




Contents






  • 1 Incumbents


    • 1.1 Law officers


    • 1.2 Judiciary




  • 2 Events


  • 3 Births


  • 4 Deaths


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References





Incumbents[edit]




  • Monarch – William II


  • Secretary of State – James Johnston, until January or February; then John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine (from 15 January) jointly with James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (from 5 February)



Law officers[edit]




  • Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart


  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume



Judiciary[edit]




  • Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant??


  • Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian


  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston



Events[edit]



  • February – the Bank of Scotland opens for business


  • 8 September – Education Act passed by parliament to establish schools in every parish in the country.


  • Perth Academy founded.

  • Famine in the Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.



Births[edit]




  • 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier and Prussian field marshal (died 1758)


  • 15 September – Sir Archibald Grant, 2nd Baronet, company speculator and Member of parliament for Aberdeenshire, 1722–1732 (died 1772)


  • date unknown


    • William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, peer (died 1763)


    • Henry Home, Lord Kames, advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver (died 1782)


    • John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, peer, died at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715


    • Anne O'Brien, 2nd Countess of Orkney, noblewoman, (died 1756)





Deaths[edit]




  • 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, a commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)


  • date unknown – Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard, soldier (born 1623)



See also[edit]


  • Timeline of Scottish history


References[edit]














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