1682 in Scotland

Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles II

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Sir David Falconer from 5 June
 * Lord Justice General – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen; James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Sir Richard Maitland

Events

 * 11 February – William Douglas is elevated to the rank of Marquess of Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland.
 * Advocates Library is founded as the law library of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.
 * Chair of Professor of Humanity created at the University of Glasgow.
 * Probable date – Inuit seen in Orkney.
 * Ongoing – The Killing Time.

Births

 * April – James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1742)
 * June (in England) – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier (died 1761)
 * 24 October – William Aikman, portrait painter (died 1731)
 * 23 December – James Gibbs, architect (died 1754)

Deaths

 * 6 May (in wreck of HMS Gloucester)
 * Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658)
 * Sir John Hope of Hopetoun
 * 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, politician (born 1616)
 * David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, cavalry officer (born c.1600)