1780 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1780 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 26 February – Alexander Allan, shipowner (died 1854)
- 17 March – Thomas Chalmers, Free Church leader (died 1847)
- 3 April – Walter Newall, architect and civil engineer (died 1863)
- 10 October – John Abercrombie, physician and philosopher (died 1844)
- 16 November – Robert Archibald Smith, composer (died 1829)
- 5 December – Patrick Sellar, lawyer, factor and sheep farmer instrumental in the Highland Clearances (died 1851)
- 26 December – Mary Somerville, née Fairfax, mathematician (died 1872 in Naples)
- David Buchan, naval officer and Arctic explorer (lost at sea 1838)
- Colquhoun Grant, British Army officer (died 1829 in Aachen)
- William Laird, shipbuilder (died 1841 in Birkenhead)
- Robert Pinkerton, Bible missionary (died 1859 in Reigate)
- Andrew Wilson, landscape painter (died 1848)
Deaths
Sport
See also
Notes and References
- English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.
- Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-01-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm. 25 January 2016. dead.
- Web site: Dalmally, Dalmally Bridge. Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Edinburgh. 1976. 2016-01-22.
- Web site: Jonathan. Brown. Small, James (bap. 1740, d. 1793). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/51709.
- Web site: Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet Scottish economist Britannica . www.britannica.com . 31 May 2022 . en.