1734 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1734 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — George II
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General — Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Grange
Events
- 8 April—6 August — Siege of Gaeta in the Kingdom of Naples (War of the Polish Succession) at which Charles Edward Stuart is present, his only military experience prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Births
- 7 May — James Byres, architect and antiquary (died 1817)
- 29 September — William Julius Mickle, poet (died 1788)
- 7 October — Ralph Abercromby, British Army general and politician (died 1801 of wounds received at Battle of Alexandria)
- 15 December — John Maclaurin, judge and poet (died 1796)
- Robert Aitken, printer and publisher in Philadelphia, first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S. (died 1802 in the United States)
Deaths
- 21 March — Robert Wodrow, historian (born 1679)
- May — Alexander McGill, architect (born c. 1680)
- 28 December — Rob Roy MacGregor, clan chief (born 1671)
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