1765 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1765 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1765 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere
Incumbents
Events
- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,[1] an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
- Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.[2]
- Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.
Births
- 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
- 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
- 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
- 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
- 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)
Deaths
- 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)[3]
- 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)
The arts
- First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".[4]
- Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.
