1708 in Scotland
Events from the year 1708 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – Anne
- Secretary of State for Scotland: 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
- 11 March – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- 23 March – James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth with a French fleet.
- 30 April – 7 July – British general election: New Scottish Westminster constituencies are used for the first time.
- 1 May – Privy Council of Scotland abolished.
- Treason Act harmonises the law of high treason in Scotland with that of England.
- Chairs of Moral Philosophy and of Logic & Metaphysics established in the University of Edinburgh. Regent system of teaching here abolished.
Births
- 15 February – Alexander Hume-Campbell, nobleman and politician
- 8 March – John Campbell, author
- Thomas Gillespie, Presbyterian minister and founder of the Relief Church
- Probable date – William Guthrie, historian
Deaths
- 21 June – John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton, anti-Union politician
- 10 October – David Gregory, mathematician and astronomer
- 16 November – Alexander Edward, Episcopalian minister, architect and landscape designer
