1768 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1768 in: Great Britain • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1768 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General — Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Barskimming
Events
- 10 June - Construction of Forth and Clyde Canal begins (Act 8 March).
- 1 December - First volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica begin publication in Edinburgh.
- David Dale begins his own business importing linen yarn from the Dutch Republic to Glasgow.
- Duchal House extended.
- Alloa Waggonway open.
Births
- 2 May - Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist and statistician (died 1838 in London)
- 3 May - Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (died 1838)
- 9 May - James Thomson, Presbyterian minister and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1855 in London)
- 11 May - David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)
- 14 July - James Haldane, soldier and evangelist (died 1851)
- 29 August (bapt.) - William Erskine, Lord Kinneder, scholar and songwriter (died 1822)
- 23 September - William Wallace, mathematician (died 1843)
- 6 November - James Hay Beattie, poet (died 1790)
- 10 November - Thomas Thomson, advocate, antiquarian and archivist (died 1852)
Deaths
- 15 June - James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710)
- 1 October - Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687)
- 12 October - James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (born 1702)
References
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