1705 in Scotland

Events from the year 1705 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Anne
 * Secretary of State –
 * until March: John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield
 * March–June: John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe jointly with William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
 * June–September: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale jointly with Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun
 * from September: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Whitelaw, then Lord Ormiston

Events

 * 30 January – Janet Cornfoot is killed by a mob, and Thomas Brown is starved to death, for accusations of witchcraft at Pittenweem subsequently exposed as perjuries.
 * 14–19 February – date of first Edinburgh Courant newspaper published, by printer James Watson.
 * March – the Parliament of England passes the Alien Act in response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security 1704; it is repealed in December without taking effect.
 * 11 April – English captain Thomas Green and two of his crew are hanged at Leith for alleged piracy on the Malabar Coast.
 * 20 July – Act of the Parliament of Scotland for the promotion of salmon, white and herring fishing.
 * September – negotiations for a Treaty of Union with England are resumed. At about this time, the independent pro-Union group around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, is first nicknamed the Squadrone Volante.
 * Lord Archibald Campbell appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.

Births
Date unknown
 * 2 March – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician (died 1793)
 * 5 May – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, noble and military leader (died 1782)
 * David Mallet, writer (died 1765)

Deaths
Date unknown
 * 11 March – Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss (born 1659)
 * 14 March – James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (born 1674)
 * Alexander Arbuthnot, politician (born 1654)