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1780 in: Great Britain • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere

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]


Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland


  • 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]





  1. ^ English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.


  2. ^ "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}


  3. ^ "Dalmally, Dalmally Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 1976. Retrieved 2016-01-22.


  4. ^ 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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