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Events from the year 1773 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 Barskimming
 
Events
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- Mid-July - The emigrant ship Hector sets out from Scotland carrying emigrants mainly escaping the Highland Clearances around Loch Broom for Pictou, Nova Scotia, where they arrive on 15 September.[1]
 - 6 August - Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland[2] where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.[3] On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald.[1]
 - Penny Post introduced in Edinburgh.[4]
 - Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
 - David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, publishes Remarks on the History of Scotland.
 
Births
- 6 April - James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (died 1836 in London)
 - 12 April - Thomas Thomson, chemist and mineralogist (died 1852)
 - 23 July - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
 - 15 September - Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, clan chief (died 1828)
 - 23 October - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
 - 21 December - Robert Brown, botanist and palaeobotanist (died 1858 in London)
 
Deaths
- 9 February - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
 
See also
References
- 1 2 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
 - ↑ Tisdall, Nigel (2009-06-03). "Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2013-02-03.
 - ↑ Boswell, James (1785). The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
 - ↑ "Provincial Penny Posts". British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original on 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
 
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