1773 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1773 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1773 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1773 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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- Mid-July â the emigrant ship Hector sets out from Scotland carrying emigrants mainly escaping the Highland Clearances around Loch Broom for Pictou, Nova Scotia, where they arrive on 15 September.[1]
- 6 August â Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland[2] where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.[3] On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald.[1]
- Penny Post introduced in Edinburgh.[4]
- Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
- David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, publishes Remarks on the History of Scotland.
Births
- 6 April â James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (died 1836 in London)
- 12 April â Thomas Thomson, chemist and mineralogist (died 1852)
- 23 July â Thomas Brisbane, astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
- 15 September â Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, clan chief (died 1828)
- 23 October â Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
- 21 December â Robert Brown, botanist and palaeobotanist (died 1858 in London)
Deaths
- 9 February â John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
