1706 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Anne
• Secretary of State – Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with John Erskine, 6th 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

• April – commissioners assemble in London to agree a Treaty of Union between Scotland and England.
• 22 July – Treaty of Union agreed in London.
• c. September – Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as an English government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union.
• 3 October – opening of the Parliament of Scotland which will debate the Union.
• 19 October – an Edinburgh mob opposed to the Union threatens the Lord Provost.
• 4 November – the Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of the Union with England Act by 116 votes to 83.
• 6 November – a Glasgow mob opposed to the Union threatens the Lord Provost.
• 20 November – a copy of the Treaty of Union is burnt publicly in Dumfries.
• Lord Archibald Campbell is created 1st Earl of Ilay.

  Births

• 1 April – Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck judge
• date unknown
• * James Abercrombie British Army general
• * Walter Goodall, writer
• * John Maule, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain
• * William Stewart, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain

  Deaths

• 25 August – Lord John Hay, soldier
• date unknown – Sir John Hay of Alderston, 1st Baronet

  The arts

• A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands edited by James Watson begins publication in Edinburgh.