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1768 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1768 in
Scotland
.
←
1767
1766
1765
1764
1763
1768
in
Scotland
→
1769
1770
1771
1772
1773
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1768 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
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Law officers
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Lord Advocate
–
James Montgomery
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Henry Dundas
Judiciary
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Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General
–
Duke of Queensberry
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Barskimming
Events
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10 June – construction of
Forth and Clyde Canal
begins (Act 8 March).
10 December – first volumes of
Encyclopædia Britannica
begin publication in Edinburgh.
Bridge over
River Deveron
between
Banff
and
Macduff
swept away in flood.
David Dale
begins his own business importing linen yarn from the
Dutch Republic
to Glasgow.
Duchal House
extended.
Alloa Waggonway
open.
Births
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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
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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
)
Scotland portal
References
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