1765 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General — Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Minto
Events
- May — James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,[1] an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
- Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.[2]
- Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.
Births
- 22 April — James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
- 20 July — Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
- 24 August — Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
- 24 October — James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)
Deaths
- 3 April — Jean Adam, poet (born 1704)
- 30 November — George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)
The Arts
- Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.
References
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