1608 in Scotland

Events in the year 1608 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – James VI

Architecture

 * May 8 – Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West Lothian.
 * Tullibole Castle constructed

Sport

 * The Lanark Silver Bell (horse racing trophy) established

Births



 * James Steuart of Coltness, merchant, banker, landowner, politician and Covenanter (d. 1681).

Deaths

 * 26 February – Thomas Craig, jurist and poet (born c.1538)
 * 15 May – Archibald Napier landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston (b. 1534)
 * 9 November – John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, peer, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (b. 1548).

Full date missing

 * George Bannatyne, merchant, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)
 * Alexander Campbell of Carco, noble and prelate
 * William Barclay, jurist (b. 1546)