1717 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1717 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1717 in Scotland.

Incumbents

1 January – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.^[1]
February – as part of the Triple Alliance treaty between Britain and France, James Stuart leaves France and seeks refuge with the Pope.^[1]
July – Indemnity Act frees most Jacobites from imprisonment. The Clan Gregor are specifically excluded.
Horse post introduced between Glasgow, Edinburgh and points north.^[2]
Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge built.
Drummonds Bank is founded in London by Scottish goldsmith Andrew Drummond.
Approximate date – the seminary at Scalan begins to train Roman Catholic priests.

28 February – Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, British Royal Navy admiral (died 1770)
28 June – Matthew Stewart, mathematician (died 1785)
29 June (bapt.) – James Robertson, British Army officer, governor of New York (died 1788 in London)
July – William Duncan, natural philosopher and classicist (died 1760)
10 October – Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1807 in London)
3 November – Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, judge and politician (died 1789)

19 March – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, royalist (born 1636)
August – William Cochrane, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (born after 1659)
November – John Slezer, military engineer and topographical artist (born before 1650 perhaps in Germany)
William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, nobleman

^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 295–296. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Ross, David (2002). Chronology of Scottish History. New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. ISBN 1-85534-380-0.