1707 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Anne, union with England on 1 May
• Secretary of State: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with The Earl of Mar
• Secretary of State for Scotland, from 1 May, when the post was created: The 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

• 16 January – Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
• 19 March – official copy of the Act of Union signed by the Scottish Chancellor and the Act is ratified by the Parliament of England.
• 25 March–28 April – last sitting of Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh until it is revived in 1999 as the Scottish Parliament.
• 25 April – a large school of whales appears in the Firth of Forth; 35 strand on the sands of Kirkcaldy.
• 1 May – 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 and merge the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. 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.

  Births

• 10 April – John Pringle, physician
• 20 April – Robert Foulis, printer and publisher
• 22 June – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator
• 5 September – John Forbes, British Army general
• date unknown – Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, physician and last Jacobite to be executed for high treason

  Deaths

• 8 January – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, politician
• 10 March – James Carnegie, Member of the Parliament of Scotland
• 17 March – William Hay, bishop
• 2 June – Mary Erskine, businesswoman and philanthropist