1780 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1780 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Barskimming
Events
- 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
- 26 February – Alexander Allan, shipowner (died 1854)
- 17 March – Thomas Chalmers, Free Church leader (died 1847)
- 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
- 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 1712)[5]
Sport
- Royal Aberdeen Golf Club founded as the 'Society of Golfers at Aberdeen'.
See also
References
- ^ English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.
- ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ "Dalmally, Dalmally Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 1976. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51709. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- ^ "Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet | Scottish economist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 31 May 2022.