1697 in Scotland
1697 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Law officers
1.2 Judiciary
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 The arts
6 See also
7 References
Incumbents[edit]
Monarch – William II
Secretary of State – John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine, jointly with James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater
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]
8 January – student Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy when he is hanged outside Edinburgh.
10 June – the last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when five Paisley witches are hanged and then burned.- Famine in the Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
- Icelandic-Norwegian historian and professor Th. Torfæus (Þormóður Torfason), publishes his work on the Orkney Islands, Orknøerne.
Births[edit]
23 January – James Fisher, a founder of the Secession church (died 1775)
5 February – William Smellie, obstetrician (died 1763)
19 September – Alexander Monro, physician and founder of Edinburgh Medical School (died 1767)
23 September – Andrew Plummer, physician and chemist (died 1756)
2 November – James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry, nobleman, described as 'violently insane'; slaughters, roasts and eats a scullion when just ten years old (died 1715)
date unknown – Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning, nobleman, politician and poet (died 1732)
Deaths[edit]
8 January – Thomas Aikenhead, student and last person in Great Britain executed for blasphemy (born 1676)
11 August – John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (1692–96), (born 1625)
date unknown –
Alexander Gordon pioneer (born 1635)
The arts[edit]
A Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions by William Cleland is published posthumously.
See also[edit]
- Timeline of Scottish history
References[edit]
Categories:
- 1697 in Scotland
- 1690s in Scotland
- Years of the 17th century in Scotland
- 1697 in Europe
- 1697 by country
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