1720_in_Scotland Knowpia

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
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Events from the year 1720 in Scotland.

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A great storm cuts Rattray, Aberdeenshire, off from the open sea, creating the Loch of Strathbeg.
The Caledonian Mercury newspaper begins publication in Edinburgh.
Food riots in east coast towns from January to March.^[1]

31 December – Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1788, in Rome)

20 April – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1637)
David Gregory, physician and inventor (born 1625)

^ Whatley, Christopher (October 1999). "The Union of 1707, Integration and the Scottish Burghs: The Case of the 1720 Food Riots". Scottish Historical Review. 78 (206): 192–218. JSTOR 25530901.