1726 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1726 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch - King George I
Events
- 25 May - First circulating library opens in Edinburgh.[1]
- General George Wade begins an 11-year program of road improvement and bridge building in Scotland.[2]
- A faculty of medicine is formally established at the University of Edinburgh, a predecessor of the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
Births
- 17 January - Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777 of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton)
- 3 June - James Hutton, geologist (died 1797)
- 26 September - John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796)
- Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1809)
- Thomas Melvill, natural philosopher (died 1753)
Deaths
- 8 July - John Ker, spy (born 1673)
- August - Colonel John Stewart (of Livingstone), former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs
- Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, judge
See also
References
- ↑ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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