1707 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of Scotland, then Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1707 in: Great Britain ⢠England ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1707 in: Great Britain ⢠England ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
- Monarch â 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 â Sir James Stewart
- Solicitor General for Scotland â William Carmichael
Judiciary
Events
- 16 January â Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
- 19 March â official copy of the Act of Union signed by the Scottish Chancellor[1] and the Act is ratified by the Parliament of England.
- 25 Marchâ28 April â last sitting of Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh until it is revived in 1999 as the Scottish Parliament.
- 25 April â a large school of whales appears in the Firth of Forth; 35 strand on the sands of Kirkcaldy.[1]
- 1 May â 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[2] and merge the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain.[3] 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.[4]
Births
- 10 April â John Pringle, physician (died 1782 in London)
- 20 April â Robert Foulis, printer and publisher (died 1776)
- 22 June (bapt.) â Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758 in London)
- 5 September â John Forbes, British Army general (died 1759 in Philadelphia)
Date unknown
- Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, physician and last Jacobite to be executed for high treason (hanged 1753 in London)
Deaths
- 8 January â John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, politician (born 1648)
- 10 March â James Carnegie, Member of the Parliament of Scotland
- 17 March â William Hay, bishop (born 1647)
- 2 June â Mary Erskine, businesswoman and philanthropist
