1770 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1770 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events
[edit]- 12 April – Monkland Canal authorized.
- 9 March – Haggis is served on board Captain James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour, anchored off New Zealand, in celebration of the birthday of a Scottish officer on board, Cook himself having a Scottish father.[1]
- 14 November – Scottish explorer James Bruce is shown the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.[1]
- Emigrants from the Highland Clearances in the Hebrides migrate to Prince Edward Island, and to Glasgow where the Gaelic-speaking congregation of St Columba Church of Scotland is formed.
- Montgomery's Entail Act remedies the system of short leases on agricultural properties.[2]
- Plans for improvement of the harbour at Dundee proposed by John Smeaton[3] and Glasgow Town Council begins deepening the navigable River Clyde.[2]
- Approximate date
- Bridge at Bridge of Weir constructed at Burngill.
- Harbour at Charlestown, Fife, begun by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
- The Fordell Railway constructed in Fife.
Births
[edit]- 2 February – George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836 in London)
- c. 25 March – Alexander Carse, genre painter (died 1843)
- 18 April – William Nicol, geologist (died 1851)
- 9 December (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (died 1835)
Deaths
[edit]- c. January – William Falconer, poet and marine dictionary compiler (born 1732; lost at sea)
- 27 July – Robert Dinwiddie, colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693; died in Virginia)
- 1 November – Alexander Cruden, Biblical scholar (born 1699; died in London)
- 9 November – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Whig politician (born c. 1693)
- 5 December – James Stirling, mathematician (born 1692)
- Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (born c. 1698)
The arts
[edit]- David Dalrymple's anthology of Ancient Scottish Poems is published.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ a b Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 80.
- ^ McKean, Charles; Whatley, Patricia (2008). Lost Dundee: Dundee's Lost Architectural Heritage. Edinburgh: Birlinn. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-84158-562-8.