1680 in Scotland

{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}

• Monarch – Charles II

• Lord President of the Court of Session – James Dalrymple
• Lord Justice General – Sir George Mackenzie; William Douglas from 1 June
• Lord Justice Clerk – Sir Richard Maitland

• 22 June – Sanquhar Declaration: Radical Presbyterian Michael Cameron, in the presence of his brother, Covenanter leader Richard Cameron, reads a speech in Sanquhar's public square disavowing allegiance to the King.{{cite web|title=Timeline: 1660 to 1700|work=Undiscovered Scotland|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/to1700.html|access-date=2019-10-25}}
• 13 July – Battle of Altimarlach near Wick, Caithness: Men of Clan Campbell led by John Campbell rout Clan Sinclair under George Sinclair of Keiss in a dispute over land rights, the last significant Scottish clan battle.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3amnMPTPP5MC&pg=PA41|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E|first=Dennis E.|last=Showalter|year=2007|publisher=Springer|page=41|isbn=9780313335372}}
• 22 July – Battle of Airds Moss in Ayrshire: Armed Covenanters are defeated in a skirmish; their leaders Richard and Michael Cameron are killed and David Hackston taken prisoner and on 30 July executed in Edinburgh for murder.{{ODNBweb|last=Muir|first=Alison G.|year=2004|title=Hackston, David, of Rathillet (d. 1680)|id=11843}}
• Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established.{{cite news|title=Scotland's historic first lending library|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/25/innerpeffray-library-historic-scotland-funding-boost|first=Libby|last=Brooks|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2019-10-25|access-date=2019-10-25}}
• Last definitely recorded native wolf in Scotland killed by Sir Ewen Cameron in Killiecrankie.{{cite book|title=Wildlife in Britain and Ireland|first=Richard|last=Perry|year=1978|location=London|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=978-0-85664-306-4}}{{cite book|title=Natural History of Quadrupeds|first=Frederic|last=Shoberl|author-link=Frederic Shoberl|year=1834|publisher=J. Harris}}{{cite news|title=Scotland's last wolf prowled the Highlands in 1680|url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotlands-last-wolf-prowled-the-highlands-in-1680-but-could-they-be-set-for-a-return/|work=The Sunday Post|location=Dundee|first=Laura|last=Smith|date=2018-07-17|access-date=2019-10-25}}
• Ongoing – The Killing Time.Wodrow, Robert (1721–22). The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution.

• 22 June – Ebenezer Erskine, Secessionist minister (died 1754)
• John Willison, evangelical Church of Scotland minister and religious writer (died 1750)

• 26 September – John Dury, Scottish-born Calvinist minister (born 1596)

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• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1680 in England

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Category:Years of the 17th century in Scotland