1692 Jan King William III issues an order to discipline the Highland Scots.

13 Feb The Glencoe Massacre. After the MacDonald chief was late talking his oath to King William, members of the Campbell clan killed 38 members of the MacDonald clan at Glencoe.

1696 Feb A Jacobite plot to murder King William III was uncovered.

March Jacobite invasion scare.

1701 12 June Act of Settlement passed by Parliament, ensured that if William III and Princess Anne (later Queen Anne) should die without heirs, the succession to the throne should pass to Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James I, and to her heirs, if they were Protestants. The house of Hanover, which ruled Great Britain from 1714, owes its claim to this act.

6 Sept Death of the deposed James II. Louis XIV of France recognises his son as James III, later known as the ‘Old Pretender’.

1708 23 March A French naval squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land the Old Pretender on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh.

1715 6 Sept Start of ‘the Fifteen’. Following the accession of King George I, a Jacobite rebellion started in Braemar in Scotland.