1676 in Scotland

Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th 19th
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1676 in: England • Elsewhere

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Monarch – Charles II

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – James Dalrymple

Events

• 7 February – John Murray, 3rd Earl of Tullibardine, is created Lord Murray, Balveny and Gask, Viscount of Balquhidder and 1st Marquess of Atholl in the Peerage of Scotland.
• The Royal Company of Archers is established as a private archery club in Edinburgh.

Births

• 17 March – Thomas Boston, Presbyterian church leader, theologian and philosopher (died 1732)
• 28 March (bapt.) – Thomas Aikenhead, student convicted of blasphemy (executed 1697)
• 15 June – Colen Campbell, Georgian architect (died 1729)
• 19 July – Andrew Hume, Lord Kimmerghame, judge (died 1730)
• 29 July – James Blow, printer (died 1759 in Ireland)
• William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite (died 1744 in Rome)
• Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, Major-General in the British Army (died 1730)
• Alexander Selkirk, sailor (died 1721 at sea)
• Approximate date
  • Alexander Anderson, Church of Scotland minister, Moderator of the General Assembly (died 1737)
  • Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge, antiquarian and patron of the arts (died 1755)

Deaths

• 27 November (possible date) – Thomas Mackenzie of Pluscarden, soldier

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1676 in England