1690s in Scotland

Events from the 1690s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents
Monarch
 * William II, r. 1689–1702 (Co-monarch with Mary II)
 * Mary II r. 1689–1694 (Co-monarch with William III & II)

Events
1690 1692 1694 1695 1696 1698 1699
 * 30 April – 1 May: the Jacobite rising of Viscount Dundee ends in defeat at the Battle of Cromdale.
 * 13 February – massacre of Glencoe: Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe killed by members of Clan Campbell after they refuse to swear allegiance to King William III.
 * 28 December – on the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland.
 * 9 May – Parliament of Scotland assembles to investigate the Glencoe massacre.
 * 1 November – establishment of the Bank of Scotland.
 * Education Act 1696 ordains a school in every parish (successful; act governs education until the 1872 act).
 * July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.
 * November – the colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.
 * The colony of New Caledonia abandoned; the colonists return to Scotland.
 * September – the second expedition to Darien sets sail, unaware of the failure of the first.

Births
1692 1695 1696 1698 1699
 * 22 April – James Stirling, mathematician (died 1770)
 * 5 October – John Glas, clergyman (died 1773)
 * 11 June – James Francis Edward Keith, soldier (died 1758)
 * February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
 * 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer (died 1748)
 * 17 April – Robert Blair, poet (died 1746)

Deaths
1690 1692 1694 1695 1696 1697 1699
 * 3 October – Robert Barclay, writer and Quaker (born 1648)
 * 3 August – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier (born 1671)
 * 28 December – Mary II, Queen of Scots (born 1662)
 * 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman (born 1619)
 * 2 August – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, nobleman and commanding officer at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)
 * 26 March – Godfrey McCulloch, baronet and politician (executed for murder) (born c. 1640)
 * 29 November – Patrick Gordon, general in the Russian Army (born 1635)