1707 in Scotland

Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of Scotland, then Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Anne (until 1 May; Scotland and England unite)
 * Secretary of State: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with The Earl of Mar (post abolished at Act of Union)
 * Secretary of State for Scotland, from 1 May, when the post was created: The 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

 * 16 January – Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
 * 19 March – official copy of the Act of Union signed by the Scottish Chancellor and the Act is ratified by the Parliament of England.
 * 25 March–28 April – last sitting of Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh until it is revived in 1999 as the Scottish Parliament.
 * 25 April – a large school of whales appears in the Firth of Forth; 35 strand on the sands of Kirkcaldy.
 * 1 May – the new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single united Kingdom of Great Britain and merge the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government. The Honours of Scotland are locked away in Edinburgh Castle.
 * Ormacleit Castle on South Uist is first occupied by Allan Macdonald, chief of Clanranald, and his family.

Births
Date unknown
 * 10 April – John Pringle, physician (died 1782 in London)
 * 20 April – Robert Foulis, printer and publisher (died 1776)
 * 22 June (bapt.) – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758 in London)
 * 5 September – John Forbes, British Army general (died 1759 in Philadelphia)
 * Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, physician and last Jacobite to be executed for high treason (hanged 1753 in London)

Deaths

 * 8 January – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, politician (born 1648)
 * 10 March – James Carnegie, Member of the Parliament of Scotland
 * 17 March – William Hay, bishop (born 1647)
 * 2 June – Mary Erskine, businesswoman and philanthropist