1759 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1759 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1759 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1759 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session â Lord Glendoick
- Lord Justice General â Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Tinwald
Events
- 13 September â Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Seven Years' War): British forces, including the 78th Fraser Highlanders, defeat those of the French to take Quebec City.[1]
- SeptemberâOctober â Benjamin Franklin visits Scotland.
- 87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders) raised at Perth and sent to Germany.
- Dumfries House, designed by Robert Adam, completed.
- David Erskine establishes his own legal practice in Edinburgh, origins of the partnership Dundas & Wilson.
- The Carron Company establishes its ironworks at Falkirk.
Births
- 25 January â Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland (died 1796)[2]
- 5 March â John Jamieson, Secession minister and lexicographer (died 1838)
- 26 March â John Mayne, printer, journalist and poet (died 1836 in London)
- 29 March â Alexander Chalmers, biographer and editor (died 1834 in London)
- 4 May (baptism) â Isabella Kelly, novelist and poet (died 1857 in London)
- 7 May â John Beugo, engraver (died 1841)
- 22 June â John Gilchrist, Indologist and surgeon (died 1841 in Paris)
- 22 September â William Playfair, political economist (died 1823 in London)
- Aeneas Chisholm, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District (died 1818)
- Approximate date â Anne Rankine, innkeeper and possible muse of Robert Burns (died 1843)
Deaths
- 20 January â James Fergusson, Lord Kilkerran, judge (born 1688)
- 11 March â John Forbes, British Army general (born 1707; died in Philadelphia)
- 7 August â John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (born 1700)
Publications
- William Robertson â The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James
- Adam Smith â The Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures
