1692 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple, then Sir James Stewart
• Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
• Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cessnock, then Lord Ormiston

Events

• 13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38 Jacobite-sympathising MacDonald of Glencoe from whom they have previously accepted hospitality.

  Births

• May – James Stirling mathematician,
• 25 May – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, peer, mortally wounded at the Battle of Sheriffmuir
• date unknown –
• * Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, judge and Lord Justice Clerk
• * George Young, surgeon, physician, philosopher and empiric

  Deaths

• 20 March – George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier
• 2 April – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh
• 14 May – Robert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist
• 3 August –
• * Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque
• * James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque