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1765 in Scotland
Events from the year
1765 in
Scotland
.
Incumbents
Law officers
Lord Advocate
âÂÂ
Thomas Miller of Glenlee
Solicitor General for Scotland
âÂÂ
James Montgomery
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session
âÂÂ
Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General
âÂÂ
Duke of Queensberry
Lord Justice Clerk
âÂÂ
Lord Minto
Events
May âÂÂ
James Watt
makes a breakthrough in the development of the
steam engine
by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on
Glasgow Green
.
Sugar refinery
at
Greenock
opened.
Settlement at
Grantown-on-Spey
planned.
Births
11 January
âÂÂ
John A. Macdonald
, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
22 April
âÂÂ
James Grahame
, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died
1811
)
20 July
âÂÂ
Peter Nicholson
, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
24 August
âÂÂ
Thomas Muir of Huntershill
, radical (died 1799 in France)
24 October
âÂÂ
James Mackintosh
, polymath (died 1832 in London)
Deaths
3 April
âÂÂ
Jean Adam
, poet and songwriter (born
1704
)
30 November
âÂÂ
George Glas
, merchant adventurer (born
1725
; murdered at sea)
The arts
First publication of the ballad "
Sir Patrick Spens
".
Walter Scott
's novel
Redgauntlet
(
1824
) presents an alternate history of this year.
References