1768 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1768 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1768 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1768 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 10 June â construction of Forth and Clyde Canal begins (Act 8 March).
- 10 December â first volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica begin publication in Edinburgh.
- Bridge over River Deveron between Banff and Macduff swept away in flood.
- David Dale begins his own business importing linen yarn from the Dutch Republic to Glasgow.
- Duchal House extended.
- Alloa Waggonway open.
Births
- 2 May â Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist and statistician (died 1838 in London)
- 3 May â Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (died 1838)
- 9 May â James Thomson, Presbyterian minister and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1855 in London)
- 11 May â David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)
- 14 July â James Haldane, soldier and evangelist (died 1851)
- 29 August (bapt.) â William Erskine, Lord Kinneder, scholar and songwriter (died 1822)
- 23 September â William Wallace, mathematician (died 1843)
- 6 November â James Hay Beattie, poet (died 1790)
- 10 November â Thomas Thomson, advocate, antiquarian and archivist (died 1852)
Deaths
- 15 June â James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710)
- 1 October â Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687)
- 12 October â James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (born 1702)
