1715 in Scotland

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

• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Montrose, until August; then The Duke of Roxburghe

• Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir James Stewart, Bt jointly with John Carnegie of Boyseck

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

• 28 August – under the pretext of a stag hunting party (tichel), John Erskine, Earl of Mar, clandestinely returns from exile in France, summons leading Jacobite chiefs and gentlemen to gather at Braemar.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|work=The Scots Independent|access-date=2016-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|archive-date=26 January 2016|url-status=dead}}
• September – former Prince of Wales and Duke of Rothesay James Francis Edward Stuart and his supporters launch the First Jacobite uprising in an effort to reclaim the throne of Great Britain for the House of Stuart.
• 6 September – first of the major Jacobite risings in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain:{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294 294–295]}} The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart at Braemar and marches on Edinburgh.
• 13 November – Battle of Sheriffmuir is fought between Jacobites under the Earl of Mar and the Duke of Argyll's army. Although the action is inconclusive, Argyll halts the Jacobite advance. According to legend, Ormacleit Castle on South Uist burns down on the death in this battle of its owner Allan Macdonald, chief of Clanranald.{{Canmore|num=9897|desc=South Uist, Ormiclate, Ormaclett Castle|access-date=2019-05-28}}
• 14 November – Battle of Preston: Government forces defeat a Jacobite incursion at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action, the last battle fought on English soil.
• 15 November – The Glasgow Courant, the first newspaper published in the city, appears.
• 22 December – James Edward Stuart joins Jacobite rebels at Peterhead but fails to rouse his army.
• Horse post introduced between Edinburgh and Glasgow.{{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|title=Chronology of Scottish History|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|location=New Lanark|year=2002|isbn=1-85534-380-0}}
• Birkhall built.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1916686.stm|title=Royal retreat for grieving prince|work=BBC News|date=2002-04-10|access-date=2012-02-07}}

• 4 February – John Hamilton, Member of Parliament for Wigtown Burghs and Wigtownshire (died 1796)

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• Thomas Braidwood, pioneer in deaf education (died 1806 in London)

• 28 December – William Carstares, Church of Scotland clergyman (born 1649)

• Colen Campbell begins publication of his pattern book Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.
• Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817) climaxes around the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

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