1780 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1780 in: Great Britain • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1780 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General — The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Barskimming
Events
- 31 May - James Watt patents a copying machine.[1]
- 18 December - The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is formed.[2]
- Dalmally Bridge built.[3]
- Böd of Gremista built in Lerwick.
- Approximate date - James Small produces a two-horse swing plough using Carron Company iron.[4]
Births
- 26 February - Alexander Allan, shipowner (died 1854)
- 17 March - Thomas Chalmers, Free Church leader (died 1847)
- 29 March - Walter Watson, weaver poet (died 1854)
- 3 April - Walter Newall, architect and civil engineer (died 1863)
- 10 October - John Abercrombie, physician and philosopher (died 1844)
- 16 November - Robert Archibald Smith, composer (died 1829)
- 5 December - Patrick Sellar, lawyer, factor and sheep farmer instrumental in the Highland Clearances (died 1851)
- 26 December - Mary Somerville, née Fairfax, mathematician (died 1872 in Naples)
- David Buchan, naval officer and Arctic explorer (lost at sea 1838)
- Colquhoun Grant, British Army officer (died 1829 in Aachen)
- William Laird, shipbuilder (died 1841 in Birkenhead)
- Robert Pinkerton, Bible missionary (died 1859 in Reigate)
- Andrew Wilson, landscape painter (died 1848)
Deaths
- 7 October - Patrick Ferguson, British Army officer and designer of the Ferguson rifle (born 1744; killed in Battle of Kings Mountain)
- 26 November - Sir James Steuart Denham, economist (born 1713)
Sport
- Royal Aberdeen Golf Club founded as the 'Society of Golfers at Aberdeen'.
See also
References
- ↑ English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ↑ "Dalmally, Dalmally Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 1976. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ↑ Brown, Jonathan (2004). "Small, James (bap. 1740, d. 1793)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51709. Retrieved 2016-03-10. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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