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Events from the year 1768 in Scotland.

Incumbents[edit]

• 
  Monarch – George III
  

Law officers[edit]

• 
  Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
  


• 
  Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas
  

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]

• 10 June – construction of Forth and Clyde Canal begins (Act 8 March).


• 1 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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)

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