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1766 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1766 in
Scotland
.
←
1765
1764
1763
1762
1761
1766
in
Scotland
→
1767
1768
1769
1770
1771
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1766 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Thomas Miller of Glenlee
; then
James Montgomery
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
James Montgomery
; then
Henry Dundas
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General
–
Duke of Queensberry
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Minto
, then
Lord Barskimming
Events
edit
1 January –
Charles Edward Stuart
("Bonnie Prince Charlie", "the young
Pretender
") becomes the new
Stuart
claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for
Jacobitism
, on the death of his father
James Francis Edward Stuart
in Rome.
17 April –
James Craig
's plan for the
New Town, Edinburgh
, wins the prize offered by the city council in January.
[1]
13 June – two soldiers and a civilian found guilty in
Aberdeen
of theft during an earlier meal riot in
Banff
are rescued from custody by a mob.
[1]
28 October –
Coldstream Bridge
across the
River Tweed
on the Northumberland border, designed by
John Smeaton
, is opened to traffic.
Births
edit
18 January –
Robert Forsyth
, topographical writer (died
1845
)
March –
Helen Hyslop
, domestic servant, a possible mistress and muse of Robert Burns (died
1852
)
10 April –
John Leslie
, mathematician and physicist, researcher into radiant heat (died
1832
)
6 July –
Alexander Wilson
, ornithologist (died
1813 in the United States
)
21 July –
Thomas Charles Hope
, physician and chemist, discoverer of strontium (died
1844
)
16 August –
Carolina Nairne
, songwriter (died
1845
)
29 December –
Charles Macintosh
, chemist, inventor of a waterproof fabric (died
1843
)
[2]
Charles Baird
, mechanical engineer (died 1843 in Russia)
May Cameron
, domestic servant, a mistress of Robert Burns
Jenny Clow
("Clarinda"), domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns (died
1792
)
Deaths
edit
3 September –
Archibald Bower
, Jesuit historian (born
1686
; died in London)
1 December –
David Scott (of Scotstarvit)
, politician (born
1689
)
13 December –
Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton
, judge and entrepreneur (born
1692
)
24 December –
James Grainger
, surgeon, poet and translator (born c.
1721
; died in
Saint Kitts
)
Robert Maxwell
, writer on agriculture (born
1696
)
Approximate date –
John Alexander
, painter (born 1686)
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
a
b
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
.
The Scots Independent
. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016
. Retrieved
27 January
2016
.
^
Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (11 September 2002).
Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
. Routledge. p. 786.
ISBN
978-1-134-65019-4
.