1780 in Scotland
1780 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1780 in Scotland.
Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Law officers
1.2 Judiciary
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Sport
6 See also
7 References
Incumbents[edit]
Monarch – George III
Law officers[edit]
Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray
Judiciary[edit]
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events[edit]
- 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]
Kilcalmonell Parish Church at Clachan, Kintyre, is rebuilt.
Births[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club founded as the 'Society of Golfers at Aberdeen'.
See also[edit]
- Timeline of Scottish history
References[edit]
^ English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.
^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "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.
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