1765 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1765 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto
Events
[edit]- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,[1] an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
- Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.[2]
- Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.
Births
[edit]- 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
- 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
- 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
- 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
- 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)
Deaths
[edit]- 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)[3]
- 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)
The arts
[edit]- First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".[4]
- Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.
References
[edit]- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 323. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 80.
- ^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781474436281.
- ^ Percy, Thomas (ed.). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. (sic.)