1728 in Scotland

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1728
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Scotland

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See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Events from the year 1728 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateDuncan Forbes
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandJohn Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord North Berwick
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Ilay
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Grange

Events[]

  • 13 May – 3 men and 8 boys from Hirta are retrieved from Stac an Armin where they have been accidentally marooned for about 9 months, the longest recorded period anyone has spent on the sea stack.
  • 31 MayThe Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).[1]
  • Iron smelting at Invergarry begins.[2]
  • InvernessFort William road through the Great Glen completed.[2]
  • First larch trees in Scotland planted at Dunkeld.[2]
  • First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.

Births[]

  • 13 FebruaryJohn Hunter, surgeon (died 1793)
  • 16 AprilJoseph Black, physicist and chemist (born in France; died 1799)
  • 3 JulyRobert Adam, architect (died 1792)

Deaths[]

  • 3 AprilJames Anderson, lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "The history of payments in the UK". BBC News. 16 February 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Ross, David (2002). Chronology of Scottish History. New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. ISBN 1-85534-380-0.


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