1689 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort, then from 13 May George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville

  Events

• 16 March-5 June – Convention of the Estates of Scotland sits to determine the settlement of the Scottish throne following the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William, Prince of Orange in 1688
• 18 March – King's Own Scottish Borderers is raised to defend Edinburgh against Jacobite forces
• 4 April – Convention of Estates votes to remove James VII from office for forfeiture; going on to adopt the Claim of Right Act 1689
• 20 April – Robert Lundy secretly flees Derry for Scotland.
• 11 May – William and Mary accept the Convention's offer of the crown on the day they are crowned King and Queen of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey
• 16 May – Battle of Loup Hill on Kintyre between Jacobite forces commanded by Donald MacNeill of Gallchoille and government forces commanded by Captain William Young
• c. 5 June – Lords of the Articles abolished
• 22 July – the Parliament of Scotland abolishes Episcopacy
• 27 July – Battle of Killiecrankie: Covenanter supporters of William and Mary are defeated by the Jacobites though the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed
• 21 August – Battle of Dunkeld: the Orange Covenanter Cameronian Guard defeat the Jacobite clans in street fighting though the Cameronian Colonel William Cleland is killed

  Births

• 7 January – Robert Murray, soldier and Member of Parliament
• 14 April – William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, soldier and Jacobite leader
• October – William Adam, architect, mason and entrepreneur

  Deaths

• 31 March – George Lockhart, advocate and Member of Parliament
• 27 July – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, nobleman and soldier, killed at the Battle of Killiecrankie
• 21 August – William Cleland, poet and soldier, killed at the Battle of Dunkeld