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1743 in Scotland
Events from the year
1743 in Scotland
.
Incumbents
Secretary of State for Scotland
:
The Marquess of Tweeddale
Law officers
Lord Advocate
âÂÂ
Robert Craigie
Solicitor General for Scotland
âÂÂ
Robert Dundas, the younger
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session
âÂÂ
Lord Culloden
Lord Justice General
âÂÂ
Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk
âÂÂ
Lord Milton
Events
17 May â approximately 100 men of the
43rd Highland Regiment of Foot
(the '
Black Watch
') desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the
Tower of London
.
27 June (16 June
O.S.
) âÂÂ
War of the Austrian Succession
:
Battle of Dettingen
in
Bavaria
– British forces, including the
Royal Scots Greys
, the
Scots Guards
and the
Royal Scots Fusiliers
, in alliance with those of
Hanover
and
Hesse
, defeat the
French
; King
George II of Great Britain
(and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
4 October âÂÂ
Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay
succeeds his brother as 3rd
Duke of Argyll
.
Robert Foulis
becomes printer to the
University of Glasgow
.
Probable date â the last
wolf
in Scotland is shot, in
Killiecrankie
.
Births
18 June âÂÂ
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
, born Marquess of Huntly, clan chief (died 1827 in England)
William Saunders
, physician, first President of the
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
(died 1817 in England)
Deaths
6 May âÂÂ
Andrew Michael Ramsay
, Catholic Jacobite scholar (born
1686
; died in France)
4 October âÂÂ
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
, soldier (born
1678 in England
; died in England)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References