1728 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1728 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1728 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1728 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland â John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
Judiciary
Events
- 13 May â 3 men and 8 boys from Hirta are retrieved from Stac an Armin where they have been accidentally marooned for about 9 months, the longest recorded period anyone has spent on the sea stack.
- 31 May â The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).[1]
- Iron smelting at Invergarry begins.[2]
- Inverness â Fort William road through the Great Glen completed.[2]
- First larch trees in Scotland planted at Dunkeld.[2]
- First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436â1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.
Births
- 13 February â John Hunter, surgeon (died 1793)
- 16 April â Joseph Black, physicist and chemist (born in France; died 1799)
- 3 July â Robert Adam, architect (died 1792)
Deaths
- 3 April â James Anderson, lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
