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Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of Scotland, then Scotland.

Incumbents[edit]

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  Monarch – Anne, union with England on 1 May


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  Secretary of State: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with The Earl of Mar (post abolished at Act of Union)


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  Secretary of State for Scotland, from 1 May, when the post was created: The Earl of Mar
  

Law officers[edit]

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  Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
  


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  Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael
  

Judiciary[edit]

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  Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
  


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  Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
  


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  Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston
  

Events[edit]

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  16 January – Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.


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  19 March – official copy of the Act of Union signed by the Scottish Chancellor^[1] and the Act is ratified by the Parliament of England.


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  25 March–28 April – last sitting of Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh until it is revived in 1999 as the Scottish Parliament.


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  25 April – a large school of whales appears in the Firth of Forth; 35 strand on the sands of Kirkcaldy.^[1]
  


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  1 May – the new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single united Kingdom of Great Britain^[2] and merge the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain.^[3]The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government. The Honours of Scotland are locked away in Edinburgh Castle.

Births[edit]

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  10 April – John Pringle, physician (died 1782 in London)


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  20 April – Robert Foulis, printer and publisher (died 1776)


• 22 June (bapt.) – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758 in London)


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  5 September – John Forbes, British Army general (died 1759 in Philadelphia)


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  date unknown – Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, physician and last Jacobite to be executed for high treason (hanged 1753 in London)

Deaths[edit]

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  8 January – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, politician (born 1648)


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  10 March – James Carnegie, Member of the Parliament of Scotland
  


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  17 March – William Hay, bishop (born 1647)


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  2 June – Mary Erskine, businesswoman and philanthropist

See also[edit]

• Timeline of Scottish history

References[edit]