1692 in Scotland

Events from the year 1692 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – William II and Mary II
 * Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston (from 3 March)

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple, then Sir James Stewart
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38 Jacobite-sympathising MacDonald of Glencoe from whom they have previously accepted hospitality.

Births

 * May – James Stirling mathematician, (died 1770)
 * 25 May – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, peer, mortally wounded at the Battle of Sheriffmuir (died 1715)
 * date unknown –
 * Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, judge and Lord Justice Clerk (died 1776)
 * George Young, surgeon, physician, philosopher and empiric (died 1757)

Deaths

 * 20 March – George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier (born 1635)
 * 2 April – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh (born 1595)
 * 14 May – Robert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist (born 1644)
 * 3 August –
 * Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born c.1642)
 * James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born 1671)