1682 in Scotland
Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1682 in: England • Elsewhere |
Incumbents
Events
- 11 February – William Douglas is elevated to the rank of Marquess of Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland.
- Advocates Library is founded as the law library of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.[1]
- Chair of Professor of Humanity created at the University of Glasgow.
- Probable date – Inuit seen in Orkney.[2]
- Ongoing – The Killing Time.
Births
- April – James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1742)
- June (in England) – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier (died 1761)
- 24 October – William Aikman, portrait painter (died 1731)
- 23 December – James Gibbs, architect (died 1754)
Deaths
- 6 May (in wreck of HMS Gloucester)[3]
- Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658)
- Sir John Hope of Hopetoun
- 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, politician (born 1616)
- David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, cavalry officer (born c.1600)
References
- Brewer, E. Cobham (1978) [1894]. The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Edwinstowe: Avenel Books. p. 17. ISBN 0-517-25921-4.
- "The Inuit Discovery of Scotland in 1682". jardine's book of martyrs. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- "Narrative From Sir John Berry, Knight, Late Commander of His Majesty's Ship Gloucester". The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and of his brother Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester.
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