1743 in Scotland

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See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Events from the year 1743 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateRobert Craigie
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandRobert Dundas, the younger

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord Culloden
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Ilay
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Milton

Events[]

  • 17 May – approximately 100 men of the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot (the 'Black Watch') desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the Tower of London.
  • 27 June (16 June O.S.) – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria – British forces, including the Royal Scots Greys, the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat the French; King George II of Great Britain (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
  • 4 October – Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay succeeds his brother as 3rd Duke of Argyll.
  • Robert Foulis becomes printer to the University of Glasgow.
  • Probable date – the last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie.[1]

Births[]

  • 18 June – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, born Marquess of Huntly, clan chief (died 1827 in England)
  • William Saunders, physician, first President of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (died 1817 in England)

Deaths[]

  • 6 May – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Catholic Jacobite scholar (born 1686; died in France)
  • 4 October – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, soldier (born 1678 in England; died in England)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "The Wolf in Scotland". ElectricScotland. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
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