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1743 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1743 in Scotland
.
←
1742
1741
1740
1739
1738
1743
in
Scotland
→
1744
1745
1746
1747
1748
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1743 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
:
The Marquess of Tweeddale
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Robert Craigie
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Robert Dundas, the younger
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Culloden
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Milton
Events
edit
17 May – approximately 100 men of the
43rd Highland Regiment of Foot
(the '
Black Watch
') desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the
Tower of London
.
27 June (16 June
O.S.
) –
War of the Austrian Succession
:
Battle of Dettingen
in
Bavaria
– British forces, including the
Royal Scots Greys
, the
Scots Guards
and the
Royal Scots Fusiliers
, in alliance with those of
Hanover
and
Hesse
, defeat the
French
; King
George II of Great Britain
(and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
4 October –
Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay
succeeds his brother as 3rd
Duke of Argyll
.
Robert Foulis
becomes printer to the
University of Glasgow
.
Probable date – the last
wolf
in Scotland is shot, in
Killiecrankie
.
[1]
Births
edit
18 June –
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
, born Marquess of Huntly, clan chief (died 1827 in England)
William Saunders
, physician, first President of the
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
(died 1817 in England)
Deaths
edit
6 May –
Andrew Michael Ramsay
, Catholic Jacobite scholar (born
1686
; died in France)
4 October –
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
, soldier (born
1678 in England
; died in England)
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
"The Wolf in Scotland". ElectricScotland
. Retrieved
16 July
2010
.