1706 in Scotland

Events from the year 1706 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Anne
 * Secretary of State – 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 Ormiston

Events

 * April – commissioners assemble in London to agree a Treaty of Union between Scotland and England.
 * 22 July – Treaty of Union agreed in London.
 * c. September – Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as an English government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.
 * 3 October – opening of the Parliament of Scotland which will debate the Union.
 * 19 October – an Edinburgh mob opposed to the Union threatens the Lord Provost.
 * 4 November – the Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of the Union with England Act by 116 votes to 83.
 * 6 November – a Glasgow mob opposed to the Union threatens the Lord Provost.
 * 20 November – a copy of the Treaty of Union is burnt publicly in Dumfries.
 * Lord Archibald Campbell is created 1st Earl of Ilay.

Births
Date unknown
 * 1 April – Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck judge (died 1782)
 * James Abercrombie British Army general (died 1781)
 * Walter Goodall, writer (died 1766)
 * John Maule, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (died 1781)
 * William Stewart, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (died 1748)

Deaths
Date unknown
 * 25 August – Lord John Hay, soldier (born c. 1668)
 * Sir John Hay of Alderston, 1st Baronet

The arts

 * A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands edited by James Watson begins publication in Edinburgh.