1770 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1770 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1770 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1770 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 12 April â Monkland Canal authorized.
- 9 March â Haggis is served on board Captain James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour, anchored off New Zealand, in celebration of the birthday of a Scottish officer on board, Cook himself having a Scottish father.[1]
- 14 November â Scottish explorer James Bruce is shown the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.[1]
- Emigrants from the Highland Clearances in the Hebrides migrate to Prince Edward Island, and to Glasgow where the Gaelic-speaking congregation of St Columba Church of Scotland is formed.
- Montgomery's Entail Act remedies the system of short leases on agricultural properties.[2]
- Plans for improvement of the harbour at Dundee proposed by John Smeaton[3] and Glasgow Town Council begins deepening the navigable River Clyde.[2]
- Approximate date
- Bridge at Bridge of Weir constructed at Burngill.
- Harbour at Charlestown, Fife, begun by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
- The Fordell Railway constructed in Fife.
Births
- 2 February â George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836 in London)
- c. 25 March â Alexander Carse, genre painter (died 1843)
- 18 April â William Nicol, geologist (died 1851)
- 9 December (bapt.) â James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (died 1835)
Deaths
- c. January â William Falconer, poet and marine dictionary compiler (born 1732; lost at sea)
- 27 July â Robert Dinwiddie, colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693; died in Virginia)
- 1 November â Alexander Cruden, Biblical scholar (born 1699; died in London)
- 9 November â John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Whig politician (born c. 1693)
- 5 December â James Stirling, mathematician (born 1692)
- Approximate date â Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (born c. 1698)
The arts
- David Dalrymple's anthology of Ancient Scottish Poems is published.
