1758 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1758 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1758 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1758 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- Physician Francis Home makes the first attempt to deliver a measles vaccine.
Births
- 17 February â John Pinkerton, antiquarian and cartographer (died 1826)
- 21 March â Patrick Beatson, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec (died 1800 in Canada)
- 23 April â Alexander Cochrane, admiral (died 1832 in France)
- 9 September â Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
- 31 October â Jean Glover, poet and singer (died 1801 in Ireland)
- Alexander Mackenzie Fraser, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general (died 1809 in the Netherlands)
Deaths
- 7 January â Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
- 17 January â James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (born 1724)
- 18 July â Duncan Campbell, nobleman and British Army officer (died of wounds received at Battle of Carillon)
- 14 October â James Francis Edward Keith, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal (born 1696; killed at Battle of Hochkirch)
- 27 October (bur.) â Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707; died in London)
- 12 November â John Cockburn, politician
See also
References
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