1799 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1799 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
- Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Braxfield, then Lord Eskgrove
Events
- pound[1] to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
- June – the last militia regiments in the Highland Fencible Corps are raised at about this time, but most are disbanded this year.[2]
- 3 June – publication of The First (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland concludes.[3]
- Glasgow Town Council and private benefactors contribute to purchasing grain to relieve the poor at a time of high food prices.[6]
- The Vicariate Apostolic of the Lowland District is transferred from Scalan to Aquhorthies College by George Hay, the Vicar Apostolic.
- Inverbervie Old Bridge (over the Bervie Water), designed by James Burn, is completed.[7]
- George Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos (1579) is translated by Robert Macfarlan as A Dialogue Concerning The Rights of the Crown in Scotland.
- William Wallace becomes the first to publish the concept of the Simson line in mathematics.[8]
Births
- George Arnott Walker-Arnott, botanist (died 1868)
- 13 February – Robert Willis, physician (died 1878 in London)
- 17 February – John Baird, evangelical minister (died 1861)
- 8 June – John Wilson, promoter of British Israelism(died 1870 in England)
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- 6 September – Peter Allan, eccentric (died 1849 in Co. Durham)
- 8 September – James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (died 1862)
- 5 November – Robert Carruthers, writer (died 1878)
- 18 December – Charles Macfarlane, travel writer and novelist (died 1858 in London)
- 21 December – David Don, botanist (died 1841 in London)
- Undated
- John Cunningham, architect (died 1873)
- George Pirie, newspaper publisher and poet (died 1870 in Canada)
- Approximate date – William Simson, painter best known as a landscapist (died 1847)
Deaths
- 5 January – John Swinton, Lord Swinton, judge (born 1723)
- 19 January – Peter Williamson ("Indian Peter"), tavern keeper, printer, postmaster, inventor, showman and sometime slave in America (born 1730)
- 26 January
- Gabriel Christie, general and settler in Montreal (born 1722)
- Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (born 1765; died in Paris)
- 26 May – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (born 1714)
- 30 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, hanging judge (born 1722)
- 1 June – James Tassie, engraver (born 1735)
- 14 June – Sir Patrick Warrender, 3rd Baronet, of Lochend, army officer and politician (born 1739)
- Duncan Davidson, merchant and politician (born 1733)
- 6 December – Joseph Black, physician and chemist (born 1728)
- William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, tobacco merchant
- Lachlan McGillivray, fur trader and planter in the Province of Georgia (born 1718/19)
See also
References
- ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Browne, James (1854). A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans. Vol. 4 (New ed.). Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co.
- ^ Withers, Charles W. J. "Scotland Accounted For: An Introduction To The 'Old' (1791-1799) And The New (1834-1845) Statistical Accounts Of Scotland". Edinburgh: EDINA. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
- ^ "Chapter XLIV: War with France". The History of Glasgow, Volume 3. Electric Scotland. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "Inverbervie, Bervie Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- Cut The Knot: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. Retrieved 23 January 2012.