1702 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II, then Anne
• Secretary of State –
• * until 6 May: James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
• * 6 May – 21 November: James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, jointly with James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
• * from 21 November: James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, jointly with George Mackenzie, 1st Viscount Tarbat

  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 Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Pollok, then Lord Prestonhall

  Events

• c. January/February – the Parliament of Scotland refuses to pass an Abjuration Act analogous to the English Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701.
• 8 March – King William II of Scotland dies in London following complications from a fall from his horse when it stumbles on a molehill and is succeeded by Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch on the English, Scottish and Irish thrones.
• May – "Women's riot" in Stirling in opposition to military impressment.
• The Advocates Library is moved from the Faculty of Advocates to Parliament House, Edinburgh.
• A General Election is held in autumn that would assemble the last Parliament of Scotland in May, 1703.

  Births

• 8 May – Andrew Lauder, Baronet
• 18 July – Maria Clementina Sobieska, wife of James Francis Edward Stuart and mother of Charles Edward Stuart
• 24 December – John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, soldier
• date unknown – James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer

  Deaths

• 8 March – King William II of Scotland
• Sir Andrew Agnew, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament