1690 in Scotland

Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – William II and Mary II
 * Secretary of State – Lord Melville

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Stair, then Lord Cessnock

Events

 * 4 January – Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh with power to elect its own officials
 * 25 April – the Parliament of Scotland passes an Act to abolish episcopy in the presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Anglican Episcopal Church in Scotland continues as a separate denomination, retaining bishops. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland also forms
 * 30 April–1 May – defeat at the Battle of Cromdale effectively ends the Jacobite uprising
 * 9 October – Royal Navy frigate HMS Dartmouth is wrecked in the Sound of Mull while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign articles of allegiance to William III and Mary II
 * Rev. Robert Kirk produces An Biobla Naomhtha, a pocket Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic (in Roman characters) adapted from William Bedell's Classical Gaelic translation of the Old Testament and William Daniel's of the New Testament, published in London
 * Hearth Tax abolished
 * The whisky distillery at Ferintosh, Black Isle, becomes the first to operate legally

Births

 * April – William McGibbon, composer and violinist (died 1756)
 * 26 September – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, peer and politician (died 1764)
 * Undated – William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, Jacobite army officer (died 1746)

Deaths

 * 3 October – Robert Barclay, Quaker and writer (born 1648)