1700 in Scotland

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – William II
 * Secretary of State – James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Pollok

Events

 * 5 January – Moffat schoolteacher Robert Carmichael is scourged through the streets of Edinburgh and banished for killing a pupil during punishment for misbehaviour.
 * 3 February – "Lesser Great Fire" around Parliament Close, Edinburgh, leaves 400 families homeless.
 * 30 March – second Darien expedition abandoned.


 * 19 April – Campbeltown is erected a royal burgh.
 * Approximate date about which the independent pro-Union group later known as the Squadrone Volante forms around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
 * Possible approximate date at which the last wolf in Scotland is shot, north of Brora in Sutherland.
 * Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut.

Births

 * April – John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (died 1759)
 * 27 August – Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (died 1785)
 * 11 September – James Thomson, poet (died 1748)

Full date unknown

 * George Bogle of Daldowie, tobacco and sugar merchant and Rector of the University of Glasgow (died 1784)
 * Donald Cameron of Lochiel (died 1748)
 * George Gilmer Sr., politician (died 1757)

Deaths

 * March – Andrew Bruce, bishop (year of birth unknown)
 * 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester heir to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1689)
 * 16 November – Jamie Macpherson, outlaw (born 1675)

The arts

 * An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.