1749 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1749 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1749 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1749 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â William Grant of Prestongrange
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume
Judges
Events
- 5 January â James Wolfe is promoted to major in Peyton's Regiment of Foot, at this time stationed in Glasgow.
- 6 March â A "corpse riot" breaks out in Glasgow after a body disappears from a churchyard in the Gorbals district. It is suspected that anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary "had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college" for dissection.[1] The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begin breaking windows at random buildings, and groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards.[2]
- 4 June â A fire in Glasgow leaves 200 families homeless.[3]
- A stagecoach service opens between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- The Treason Outlawries (Scotland) Act is passed.
Births
- 1 June â James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, soldier and patron (died 1791 in England)
- 18 June â John Brown, miniature painter (died 1787)
- 29 August â Gilbert Blane, naval physician (died 1834 in England)
- 6 September â Benjamin Bell, surgeon (died 1806)
- October â Archibald Skirving, portrait painter (died 1819)
- 3 November â Daniel Rutherford, physician, chemist and botanist noted for the isolation of nitrogen (died 1819)
- 7 November â Charles Smith, portrait painter (died 1824)
- 8 December â Hugo Arnot, né Pollock, lawyer and campaigner (died 1786)
- 15 December â James Graeme, poet (died 1772)
- John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, cavalry officer and priest (died 1796)
- Ralph Walker, civil engineer (died 1824 in England)
Deaths
- 18 April â Alexander Robertson of Struan, chief of Clan Donnachaidh, Jacobite leader and poet (born c. 1668/70)[4]
- 19 October â William Ged, goldsmith and inventor of stereotyping (born 1699)
- 19 December â George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, exiled Jacobite (born c. 1678; died in Italy)
- 25 December â John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, 1st colonel of the Black Watch (born 1702)
- John Munro, 4th of Newmore, soldier and politician
