Scottish History Time-line (18th Century)

Note that, within a single year, events are not necessarily presented in chronological order.

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18th C.	Asknish House (Argyll and Bute) Built
18th C.	Bolfracks (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Brechin Castle (Angus) Built
18th C.	Broughton House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
18th C.	Camserney Longhouse (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Foswell (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Hal o' the Wynd House (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Holland House (Orkney) Built
18th C.	House of Pitmuies (Angus) Built
18th C.	Jane Welsh Carlyle House (East Lothian) Built
18th C.	Johnnie Notion's Bod (Shetland) Built
18th C.	King's House Hotel (Highland) Built
18th C.	Loch Bee Causeway (Western Isles) Constructed
18th C.	Lord John Murray's Stables (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Maggie Wall's Monument (Perth and Kinross) Erected
18th C.	Newhailes (East Lothian) Created
18th C.	Ramada Hotel (Perth and Kinross) Built
18th C.	Stroquhan (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
18th C.	The Haa (Shetland) Built
18th C.	The Lodberrie (Shetland) Built
18th C.	The Sheep Heid Inn (City of Edinburgh) Built
18th C.	The Weaver's Cottage (Renfrewshire) Built
18th C.	Wardhouse (Aberdeenshire) Built
c.1700	George Ross born - Laird and businessman
c.1700	Rev. Thomas Mair born - Minister of the Secession Church in the parish of Orwell, Kinross-shire
c.1700	Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony died - Soldier and royal servant
1700	General William Maule (1st Earl of Panmure of Forth) born - Soldier and politician
1700	James Ferguson (Lord Pitfour) born - Advocate and judge
1700	James Thomson born - Poet and dramatist
1700	Sir Hugh Dalrymple (Lord Drummore) born - Invented hollow-pipe drainage
1701	Dalkeith House (Midlothian) Built
1701	James Glen born - American governor
1701	King James VII (King James II of England) died - Unpopular monarch
1701	Lochryan House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1701	William Kidd (Captain Kidd) died - Infamous pirate and privateer
1702	Frances Teresa Stuart (Duchess of Richmond and Lennox; La Belle Stuart) died - The face of Britannia and mistress of King Charles II
1702	Logan House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1703	Cousland Smiddy (Midlothian) Built
1703	David Mallet (David Malloch) born - Minor poet
1703	James Douglas-Hamilton (5th Duke of Hamilton) born - Politician
1704	Duncan Forbes of Culloden died - Politician and land-owner
1704	St Fittick's Church (Aberdeen City) Built
1705	Archibald Campbell (1st Duke and 10th Earl of Argyll) died - Enthusiastic supporter of William of Orange and the ousting of King James VII (1633 - 1701), who had re-embraced the 'old religion' and executed his father, the 9th Earl of Argyll
1705	Mary MacLeod (Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) died - Influential Gaelic bard
1705	Richard Oswald born - Influential merchant who amassed great wealth from plantations in the West Indies
1705	Sir Norman MacLeod died - Scholar and soldier
1705	William Boyd (4th Earl of Kilmarnock) born - Jacobite
1707	General John Forbes born - Military commander who founded the settlement of Pittsburgh in the USA
1707	George Melville (1st Earl and 4th Lord Melville) died - Royalist statesman and politician
1707	John Dalrymple (1st Earl of Stair) died - Lawyer and Politician
1707	Midsteeple (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1707	Morton House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1707	Robert Foulis born - Printer and publisher
1707	Sir George Skene died - Merchant and Provost of Aberdeen
1707	Sir John Foulis died - Lawyer and social historian
1707	Treaty of Union
c.1708	Bowhill (Scottish Borders) Built
1708	Castlegate Well (Aberdeen City) Opened
1708	David Gregory died - Mathematician and astronomer
1708	James Abercromby born - Colonialist
1708	Ormiclate Castle (Western Isles) Built
1708	Sir Andrew Mitchell born - Diplomat
1708	The Tolbooth (Highland) Opened
1708	Thomas Gillespie born - Clergyman
1709	Dr. Samuel Johnson born - English author, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer
1709	John Murray (Marquess of Tullibardine) died - Soldier
1710	James Ferguson born - Engineer, astronomer, lecturer and artist
1710	James Short born - Astronomer and scientific instrument-maker
1710	Prof. William Cullen born - Physiologist
1710	Robert Mylne died - Architect and builder
1710	Sir William Bruce died - Architect and merchant
1710	Thomas Hay (9th Earl of Kinnoull) born - Noble and politician
1710	Thomas Reid born - Philosopher
1710	William Ramsay (5th Earl of Dalhousie) died - Soldier and noble
1710	Yester Parish Church (East Lothian) Built
1711	David Hume born - Philosopher, historian, agnostic and leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment
1711	Hugh Miller's Cottage (Highland) Built
1711	James Douglas (2nd Duke of Queensberry) died - 'Union Duke'
1711	Lord John Murray born - Hanoverian general
1712	Andrew Foulis born - Printer and publisher
1712	James Dickson born - Wealthy merchant and agricultural improver
1712	John Campbell of Lundie died - Pioneering banker
1712	John Lyon (2nd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) died - Noble
1712	Murdoch Mackenzie born - Surveyor and marine cartographer
1712	Sir Lawrence Dundas born - Merchant, entrepreneur and politician
1713	Alison Cockburn (Alison Rutherford) born - Poetess, songwriter and socialite
1713	Allan Ramsay born - Artist
1713	Gartmorn Dam Country Park (Clackmannanshire) Opened
1713	John Hay (2nd Marquess of Tweeddale) died - Politician
1713	John Stuart (3rd Earl of Bute) born - British prime minister
1713	Robert Dundas of Arniston (4th Lord Arniston) born - Judge and politician
1713	Walter Stuart (6th Lord Blantyre) died - Noble, politician and landowner
1714	Sir George Mackenzie (Lord Royston; Viscount Tarbat; Earl of Cromartie) died - Lawyer and politician
1715	Battle of Sheriffmuir
1715	Gilbert Burnet (Bishop of Salisbury) died - Churchman and historian
1715	James Douglas (Earl of Drumlanrig) died - Infamous cannibal
1715	John Glassford born - Tobacco Lord
1715	John Lyon (3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) died - Jacobite noble
1715	Sir John Murray of Broughton born - Advisor and confidant to Bonnie Prince Charlie
1715	1715 Jacobite Rebellion
1716	Anne Douglas-Hamilton (Duchess of Hamilton) died - Noble
1716	Dugald Buchanan (D'ughall Bochanan) born - Gaelic poet and preacher
1716	George Cleghorn born - Medical pioneer
1716	George Gordon (4th Marquis of Huntly; 1st Duke of Gordon) died - Royalist noble
1716	James Lind born - Naval physician
1716	Mount Stuart (Argyll and Bute) Built
1716	Rev. Robert Traill died - Puritan Minister
1717	John Campbell (1st Earl of Breadalbane) died - Noble and politician
1717	John Goldie born - Author and philosopher
1717	Matthew Stewart born - Mathematician
1717	Rev. John Gray died - Preacher, scholar and linguist
1717	Samuel Garbett born - Industrialist
1718	Dr. John Roebuck born - Inventor and entrepreneur, who was a leader of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland
1718	Martin Martin died - Geographer and Mapmaker
1718	Old Calton Burial Ground (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1718	Robert Sandeman born - Sect leader
1718	William Hunter born - Pioneer in the field of Obstetrics
1719	Adam Skirving born - Song writer
1719	Andrew Meikle born - Agricultural Engineer
1719	Belhaven Brewery (East Lothian) Opened
1719	Cosmo-George Gordon (3rd Duke of Gordon) born - Noble
1719	Scalan (Moray) Established
1719	William Paterson died - Merchant and Politician
1719	1719 Jacobite Rebellion
1719	Battle of Glenshiel
1720	Ardwell House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1720	Clementina Walkinshaw born - Jacobite and mistress of the 'Young Pretender'
1720	General James Grant born - Soldier and colonial governor
1720	George Gordon of Haddo (1st Earl of Aberdeen) died - Statesman and lawyer
1720	Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) born - The "Young Pretender"
1721	Alexander Selkirk died - Seaman and castaway
1721	David Wemyss (Lord Elcho) born - Jacobite
1721	Francis Garden (Lord Gardenstone) born - Judge
1721	General Charles Schaw Cathcart (9th Lord Cathcart) born - Soldier and diplomat
1721	General James Murray born - First Governor of Canada
1721	John Adam born - Architect
1721	Sir David Dalrymple (1st Baronet of Hailes) died - Brother of John Dalrymple (1648 - 1707) and youngest son of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair (1619-95)
1721	Tobias George Smollett born - Author
1721	William Augustus Hanover (Duke of Cumberland) born - Prince and Field Marshall
1721	William Robertson born - Historian
1722	Alexander Carlyle (Jupiter Carlyle) born - Clergyman
1722	Flora MacDonald born - Reluctant heroine
1722	George Younger born - Brewer
1722	John Adair died - Map-maker and surveyor
1722	John Home born - Soldier, playwright and churchman
1722	Lord Robert Macqueen Braxfield born - Lawyer and 'hanging judge'
1722	Major John Pitcairn born - Royal Marine officer, who fought in the American War of Independence
1722	Rev. John Brown born - Preacher and author
1722	Rev. William Veitch died - Covenanter
1722	Sir George Warrender of Lochend (1st Baronet Lochend) died - Merchant, politician and landowner
1722	Sir John Lauder (Lord Fountainhall) died - Judge and author of a noted journal
1722	Sir Robert Sibbald died - Physician, geographer and natural historian
1722	Whittingehame Parish Church (East Lothian) Built
1723	Adam Ferguson born - Sociologist, philosopher and historian
1723	Adam Smith born - Economist and philosopher
1723	Francis Charteris born - Noble
1723	Gavin Hamilton born - Painter
1723	James Livingston (4th Earl of Callendar, 5th Earl of Linlithgow) died - Jacobite
1723	James Maule (4th Earl of Panmure) died - Jacobite soldier
1723	John Campbell (5th Duke of Argyll) born - Soldier and politician
1723	John Witherspoon born - Clergyman born in Gifford, East Lothian
1723	Mavisbank House (Midlothian) Built
1723	Sir Archibald Primrose (1st Earl of Rosebery) died - Lawyer and Politician
1723	Sir William Chambers born - Architect
c.1724	Langholm Castle (Dumfries and Galloway) Abandoned
1724	Back Walk (Stirling) Opened
1724	Gardie House (Shetland) Built
1724	Gilmerton Cove (City of Edinburgh) Built
1724	John Murray (1st Duke of Atholl) died - Noble
1724	John Smeaton born - An English engineer of Scottish descent, born at Austhorpe near Leeds, Smeaton has been dubbed the father of civil engineering
1724	Ruthven Barracks (Highland) Built
1724	Sir Patrick Hume (1st Earl of Marchmont) died - Statesman and Covenanter
1724	William Douglas (4th Duke of Queensberry; 3rd Earl of March) born - Philanderer
1725	Dalmahoy House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1725	Floors Castle (Scottish Borders) Built
1725	John Gow died - Mutineer and pirate
1725	Mellerstain (Scottish Borders) Built
1725	Prof. John Hope born - Botanist
c.1726	Lord Adam Gordon born - General
1726	Arniston House (Midlothian) Built
1726	Balnain House (Highland) Built
1726	General Hugh Mercer born - Military commander and hero of the American Revolutionary War
1726	General Sir Hector Munro born - Military commander and politician
1726	Hundy Mundy (Scottish Borders) Erected
1726	James Gillespie born - Snuff manufacturer and philanthropist
1726	James Hutton born - Father of modern geology, born in Edinburgh
1726	John Anderson born - Scientist
1726	Major General William Roy born - Surveyor and cartographer
1726	Robert Dundas of Arniston (2nd Lord Arniston) died - Politician and lawyer
1726	Sir David Dalrymple (3rd Baronet Hailes; Lord Hailes) born - Lawyer, judge and historian
1726	Sir John Vanbrugh died - Architect and playwright
1727	Calda House (Highland) Built
1727	James Lockhart-Wishart (Count Lockhart-Wishart of Lee and Carnwath) born - Soldier
1727	Jean Elliot born - Song writer
1727	Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw (Elizabeth Halkett) died - Poetess
1727	Neil Gow (Niel Gow) born - Musician and composer
1728	Alexander Gordon (2nd Duke of Gordon) died - Jacobite
1728	Auchtermuchty Town House (Fife) Built
1728	Charles Lyon (4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) died - Noble
1728	John Clerk of Eldin born - Politician, artist and author
1728	John Hunter born - Pioneer of surgery and dentistry
1728	Prof. Joseph Black born - Chemist
1728	Robert Adam born - Architect
1729	James Duff (2nd Earl of Fife) born - Politician
1729	John Law died - Financier and gambler
1729	John Murray (3rd Duke of Atholl) born - Politician and soldier
1729	Sir William Pulteney (William Johnstone) born - Wealthy lawyer, politician and landowner
1730	House of Dun (Angus) Built
1730	Iain Dubh MacCrimmon born - The last of the hereditary pipers to MacLeod of Dunvegan
1730	James Bruce born - Early Explorer
1730	James Small born - Inventor
1730	Peter Williamson (Indian Peter) born - Reformer
1730	Rev. Dr. John Walker born - Naturalist, lecturer and clergyman
1731	Admiral Adam Duncan (1st Viscount Camperdown) born - Naval commander
1731	Daniel Defoe died - Author, journalist and social thinker
1731	Garvamore Bridge (Highland) Opened
1731	James Smith died - Architect and politician
1731	Patrick Miller of Dalswinton born - Entrepreneur, banker and early patron of Robert Burns (1759-96)
1731	Robert Gordon died - Merchant, born in Aberdeen
1731	William Aikman died - Painter
1731	William Aiton born - Botanist
c.1732	Robert Balmanno born - Merchant, farmer and Burgess of Aberdeen
1732	Agnes Broun born - Mother of Robert Burns (1759-96)
1732	Colonel Francis Charteris died - Infamous gambler, adulterer and duellist
1732	George Dempster of Dunnichen (Honest George) born - Politician and reformer
1732	Haddo House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1732	Hilton House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1732	James Adam born - Architect
1732	John Broadwood born - Piano manufacturer
1732	John Erskine (6th Earl of Mar) died - A Scottish Jacobite born at Alloa who frequently changed his political allegiance, earning the nickname 'Bobbing John'
1732	John McNabb born - Ship-owner and philanthropist
1732	John Murray (4th Earl of Dunmore) born - Colonial governor
1732	Thomas Boston died - Theologist
1733	Alexander Monro (Secundus) born - Anatomist
1733	Archerfield House (East Lothian) Built
1733	Establishment of the Secession Church
1733	James Ramsay born - Naval surgeon and abolitionist
1733	Whalsay Parish Church (Shetland) Built
1734	Chatelherault Hunting Lodge (South Lanarkshire) Built
1734	Clan Gunn Heritage Centre and Museum (Highland) Built
1734	Francis Macnab (The Macnab; 16th Chief of the Clan Macnab) born - Clan chief, landowner and eccentric
1734	Hermits and Termits (City of Edinburgh) Built
1734	Rob Roy's Grave (Stirling) Erected
1734	Robert (Rob Roy) MacGregor died - Notorious cattle thief and Jacobite Guerilla
1734	Robert Mylne born - Architect
1734	Sir Ralph Abercromby born - General
1734	Springkell House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1734	The Drum (City of Edinburgh) Built
1734	William Mylne born - Architect
1735	Duff House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1735	James Tassie born - Glass and gemstone engraver
1735	John Arbuthnot died - Physician and satirist
1735	Sir Samuel Greig born - Born in Inverkeithing (Fife), Greig served in the British Navy
1735	The Wauchope Mausoleum (City of Edinburgh) Built
1735	Thomas Coutts born - Banker
1736	Alexander Runciman born - Painter
1736	Freemason's Hall (City of Edinburgh) Established
1736	James Watt born - Inventor and engineer
1736	John Elphinstone (4th Lord Balmerino; 3rd Lord Coupar) died - Lawyer and politician
1737	Alexander Dalrymple born - Hydrographer
1737	John Hunter born - Governor of New South Wales (Australia) between 1795 and 1800
1737	John Lyon (9th Earl of Strathmore; John Bowes-Lyon) born - Noble
1737	William Forsyth born - Horticulturist
1738	Elspat Buchan (Elsbeth or Elizabeth Buchan) born - Sect leader
1738	James Dickson born - Plant collector
1738	Paisley Arts Centre (Renfrewshire) Built
1738	William Cochran born - Artist
1739	David Dale born - Mill-owner and philanthropist
1739	Dr. James Anderson born - Inventor, agricultural economist and author
1739	Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield (12th Earl of Eglinton) born - Politician and soldier
1739	Prof. Alexander Hamilton born - Obstetric surgeon and medical lecturer
1739	Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo born - Banker and philanthropist
c.1740	The Scottish Enlightenment
1740	Galloway House Gardens (Dumfries and Galloway) Created
1740	Jacob More born - Painter
1740	James Boswell born - Biographer and traveller
1740	John Ker (1st Duke of Roxburghe) died - Politician and noble
1740	Lauderdale House (East Lothian) Built
1740	Rubislaw Quarry (Aberdeen City) Opened
1740	Sir Robert Abercromby born - Soldier
1740	Sir Robert Preston born - Merchant and philanthropist
1740	The Meadows (City of Edinburgh) Created
1740	William Fullerton Elphinstone born - Chairman of the East India Company
1740	William Smellie born - Printer and natural historian
1741	Alexander Adam born - Antiquary, author and educator
1741	Daniel Stewart born - Philanthropist
1741	Francis Masson born - Botanist and gardener
1741	Sciennes Hill House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1741	Sir James Hunter Blair born - Politician and banker
1741	Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse (1st Baron Dundas) born - Politician, merchant and naval officer
1741	William Brodie (Deacon Brodie) born - Ingenious burglar
1742	Alexander Milne born - Entrepreneur
1742	Anne Hunter (Anne Home) born - Minor poet and socialite
1742	Charles Hope (1st Earl of Hopetoun) died - Politician and noble
1742	Galloway House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1742	Henry Dundas (1st Viscount Melville) born - 'The Uncrowned King of Scotland'
1742	John Kay born - Artist and social commentator
1742	Town House (East Lothian) Built
1743	Alexander Gordon (4th Duke of Gordon) born - Noble and song-writer
1743	James Douglas-Hamilton (5th Duke of Hamilton) died - Politician
1743	John Campbell (2nd Duke of Argyll; Duke of Greenwich) died - Soldier and politician
1743	Sir William Macleod Bannatyne (Lord Bannatyne) born - Jurist, judge and author
1744	David Allan born - Artist and portrait painter
1744	Dr. Andrew Duncan born - Medical reformer
1744	General Nisbet Balfour born - Soldier and politician
1744	Inveraray Castle (Argyll and Bute) Built
1744	James Craig born - Architect
1744	James McGill born - Fur trader
1744	John Runciman born - Painter
1744	John Stuart (1st Marquess and 4th Earl of Bute) born - Noble
1744	Patrick Ferguson born - Inventor and soldier
c.1745	Daldowie Doocot (Glasgow City) Built
1745	Battle of Prestonpans
1745	Col. James Gardiner died - Soldier
1745	John Ainslie born - Surveyor and cartographer
1745	William Jessop born - Engineer
1745	1745 Jacobite Rebellion
1746	Admiral George Keith Elphinstone (Admiral Lord Keith; 1st Viscount Keith) born - Naval commander
1746	Arthur Elphinstone (6th Lord Balmerino) died - Jacobite
1746	Battle of Culloden
1746	Colin Maclaurin died - Mathematician
1746	Gairnshiel Lodge (Aberdeenshire) Built
1746	Hector MacNeill born - Poet
1746	Lady Grisel Baillie died - Song-writer and heroine
1746	Michael Bruce born - Poet and author of Gospel Sonnets or paraphrases
1746	Robert Blair died - Poet and clergyman
1746	William Boyd (4th Earl of Kilmarnock) died - Jacobite
1746	William Gordon (2nd Earl of Aberdeen) died - Politician
1746	William Murray (Marquess of Tullibardine) died - Jacobite soldier
1746	Rout of Moy
c.1747	James Tytler born - Author, eccentric and radical
1747	Duncan Forbes of Culloden died - Statesman and jurist
1747	John Paul Jones born - Naval pioneer
1747	Learney House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1747	Simon Fraser (12th Lord Lovat) died - Clan chief of wavering loyalty, described as 'the most devious man in Scotland'
1747	Touch House (Stirling) Built
1748	Fort George (Highland) Built
1748	General George Wade died - British soldier employed after the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 to construct a system of metalled military roads and 40 stone bridges throughout the Scottish Highlands
1748	Hartfell Spa (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1748	Island House (Argyll and Bute) Built
1748	James Thomson died - Poet and dramatist
1748	John Playfair born - Geologist, physicist and mathematician
1748	Robert Blair born - Inventor and astronomer
1748	Southerness Lighthouse (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1748	Thomas Graham (1st Baron Lynedoch of Balgowan) born - Military commander and politician
1748	William Adam died - Architect, particularly noted for his design of country houses
1748	William Marshall born - Composer and fiddle-player
1749	Alexander Robertson of Struan (13th Chief of Clan Donnachaidh) died - Ardent Jacobite, who was uniquely present from the beginning to the end of that historical episode
1749	Archibald Skirving born - Artist
1749	Dr. Benjamin Bell born - Surgeon
1749	Francis Charteris born - Noble
1749	George Seton (5th Earl of Winton) died - Jacobite
1749	Marchmont Doocot (Scottish Borders) Built
1749	Prof. Daniel Rutherford born - Scientist
1749	William Ged died - Inventor, printer and goldsmith
c.1750	Bush House (Midlothian) Built
c.1750	Cruck Cottage (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
c.1750	Old Haa (Shetland) Built
c.1750	The Lang Stane (Aberdeen City) Erected
1750	John Fraser born - Plant hunter
1750	King James VI Hospital (Perth and Kinross) Built
1750	Robert Fergusson born - Poet and song-writer
1750	Sir William Fettes born - Merchant and philanthropist
1750	The Highland Clearances
1751	Dr. Alexander Gray born - Surgeon
1751	Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1st Earl of Minto) born - Politician and statesman
1751	Sir James Donaldson born - Publisher and philanthropist
1751	The Flag Tower (Midlothian) Built
1751	William Adam born - Lawyer and politician
1751	William Roxburgh born - Botanist, who significantly advanced the study of Indian flora
c.1752	Lord George Gordon born - Infamous politician
1752	Cosmo-George Gordon (3rd Duke of Gordon) died - Noble
1752	James Aitken (John the Painter) born - Terrorist, who tried to destroy the British naval dockyards
1752	John Campbell (2nd Earl of Breadalbane) died - Eccentric noble and politician, known as Old Rag
1752	Pollok House (Glasgow City) Built
1752	Robert Burn born - Architect
1752	Thomas Smith born - Engineer
c.1753	Gunsgreen House (Scottish Borders) Built
1753	Charlotte Stuart (Duchess of Albany) born - Only acknowledged daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie
1753	Dalguise House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1753	Drummore House (East Lothian) Built
1753	Dugald Stewart born - Philosopher
1753	James Taylor born - Engineer
1753	Moorheads Hospital (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1753	Prof. James Gregory born - Professor of Medicine
1753	Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell born - Educationalist
1753	Robert Dundas of Arniston (3rd Lord Arniston) died - Lawyer and politician
1753	Sir Hugh Dalrymple (Lord Drummore) died - Invented hollow-pipe drainage
c.1754	Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun born - Politician and lawyer
1754	Archibald Menzies born - Plant hunter
1754	Daniel Lizars born - Copper-plate engraver and printer
1754	Ebenezer Erskine died - Evangelical divine and founder of the Secession Church of Scotland
1754	James Gibbs died - Architect
1754	John Graham born - Painter
1754	Lord Lewis Gordon died - Jacobite
1754	Marchmont House (Scottish Borders) Built
1754	Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster born - Politician, lawyer and agricultural reformer
1754	The Well of the Lecht (Moray) Erected
1754	William Murdock born - Engineer and inventor of gas lighting
1755	General Sir William Schaw Cathcart (1st Earl of Cathcart) born - Soldier and diplomat
1755	James Playfair born - Architect
1755	Lt-Colonel William Patterson (William Paterson) born - Explorer and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales
1755	Sir Hew Dalrymple (Lord Drummore) died - Judge
1755	Sir John Clerk (Sir John Clerk of Penicuik) died - Politician, advocate, patron of the arts, antiquarian, author and arbiter of taste
c.1756	Redhall Walled Garden (City of Edinburgh) Created
1756	Dysart House (Fife) Built
1756	James Wemyss (5th Earl of Wemyss) died - Noble
1756	James West born - Mathematician and clergyman
1756	John Loudon MacAdam (John Loudon McAdam) born - Surveyor and builder of roads
1756	Redhall Doocot (City of Edinburgh) Built
1756	Sir Henry Raeburn born - Portrait painter
1757	Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell born - Naval commander
1757	General Sir David Baird born - Soldier
1757	Robert Keith died - Churchman, historian and Jacobite
1757	St Andrew's in the Square (Glasgow City) Built
1757	Thomas Telford born - Civil engineer
1758	Alexander Nasmyth born - Painter and architect
1758	Allan Ramsay died - Poet and bookseller
1758	Charles Darwin born - Unfortunate medical student
1758	Dr. John Barclay born - Anatomist
1758	Gavin Turnbull born - Minor poet
1758	George Granville Leveson-Gower (1st Duke of Sutherland) born - Infamous reformer
1758	James Francis Edward Keith died - Field Marshal of Prussia
1758	Ossian's Hall (Perth and Kinross) Erected
1758	Paxton House (Scottish Borders) Built
1758	Redhall House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1758	Robert Dundas of Arniston (5th Lord Arniston) born - Judge and politician
1758	Thomas Blaikie born - Garden designer, who became known as the Capability Brown of France
1759	Agnes Maclehose (Clarinda) born - The Clarinda with whom Robert Burns (1759-96) famously corresponded
1759	Andrew Buchanan died - Tobacco merchant who became Lord Provost of Glasgow
1759	General John Forbes died - Military commander who founded the settlement of Pittsburgh in the USA
1759	James Maitland (8th Earl of Lauderdale) born - Politician and economist
1759	Ramsay's Monument (Midlothian) Erected
1759	Rev. John Jamieson born - Lexicographer
1759	Robert Burns born - Poet and writer
1759	Vincenzo Lunardi born - Ballooning pioneer
c.1760	Ochtertyre (Stirling) Built
1760	Andrew McDouall (Lord Bankton) died - Jurist
1760	Ballochmyle House (East Ayrshire) Built
1760	Bridge of Dochart (Stirling) Opened
1760	Colin Macaulay born - Soldier and abolitionist
1760	Finlaystone House (Inverclyde) Built
1760	Gilbert Burns born - Younger brother of poet Robert Burns (1759-96)
1760	Lord George Murray died - Distinguished Jacobite general and strategist
1761	Archibald Campbell (3rd Duke of Argyll; 1st Earl of Islay) died - Politician, lawyer and soldier
1761	City Chambers (City of Edinburgh) Built
1761	General Sir John Moore born - Soldier
1761	Glasshaugh Windmill (Aberdeenshire) Built
1761	John Rennie born - Engineer, born in Phantassie, East Lothian
1761	Lachlan Macquarie born - Soldier, civil servant and Father of Australia
1761	Matthew Baillie born - Anatomist and physician extraordinary to King George III
1761	Moffat House Hotel (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1761	Orchardton House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1761	Rev. Lord George Murray born - Developed the shutter telegraph
1761	Sir James Hall born - Geologist and politician
1761	The Pineapple (Falkirk) Erected
c.1762	Sandbed Street Bridge (East Ayrshire) Opened
1762	Francis Hamilton Buchanan born - Explorer and naturalist
1762	Jamaica Street (Glasgow City) Constructed
1762	Joanna Baillie born - Poet and dramatist
1762	John Campbell (4th Earl and 1st Marquis of Breadalbane) born - Noble and soldier
1762	Thomas Watling born - Artist, illustrator and forger
1763	Admiral Sir David Milne born - Naval commander
1763	Cally Palace Hotel (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1763	Charles Erskine (Lord Tinwald) died - Jurist and politician
1763	Charles Hope (Lord Granton) born - Jurist and politician
1763	Duddingston House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1763	Dugald Buchanan (D'ughall Bochanan) died - Gaelic poet and preacher
1763	James Thomson born - Minor poet
1763	St Cecilia's Hall (City of Edinburgh) Built
1763	The Mound (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1763	William Duff (1st Earl of Fife) died - Politician
1763	William Maclure born - Father of American geology and educationalist
1763	William Symington born - Engineer
1764	Alexander Campbell born - Composer, musician, poet and author
1764	Chisholm House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1764	George Don born - Horticulturist and plant collector
1764	James Murray (2nd Duke of Atholl) died - Noble, soldier and politician
1764	Oswald Hall (South Ayrshire) Built
1764	Robert Haldane born - Evangelist and writer
1764	Sir Alexander Mackenzie born - Explorer
1764	Sir James Shaw born - Lord Major of London and real-life Dick Whittington
1764	Sir John Gladstone born - Merchant and politician
1764	Yair Bridge (Scottish Borders) Opened
c.1765	Hailes House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1765	Alexander Baird born - Farmer and entrepreneur
1765	Bighouse (Highland) Built
1765	Cross Keys Hotel (Scottish Borders) Built
1765	David Mallet (David Malloch) died - Minor poet
1765	Dr. James Crichton born - Physician and philanthropist
1765	Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (Countess of Sutherland) born - Countess, artist and reformer
1765	Greenbank House (East Renfrewshire) Built
1765	Sir James Ivory born - Mathematician
1765	Sir John Hope (4th Earl of Hopetoun) born - Soldier
1765	Thomas Muir born - Radical reformer
1765	William Augustus Hanover (Duke of Cumberland) died - Prince and Field Marshall
1766	Alexander Wilson born - Father of American ornithology
1766	Andrew Fletcher (Lord Milton) died - Jurist
1766	Charles Baird born - Engineer, who build Russia's first steamship
1766	Charles Macintosh born - Industrial chemist and entrepreneur
1766	George Drummond died - Politician and visionary planner
1766	George Square (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1766	George William Campbell (6th Duke of Argyll) born - Son of John Campbell (1723 - 1806), the 5th Duke
1766	James Francis Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender) died - Jacobite leader
1766	James Sandy born - Inventor of the invisible hinge
1766	Masonic Hall (Midlothian) Built
1766	Princes Street (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1766	Princes Street Gardens (City of Edinburgh) Created
1766	Prof. Thomas Charles Hope born - Chemist
1766	Rev. William Brown born - Clergyman and author
1766	Sir John Leslie born - Physicist and inventor
1766	Thomas Bruce (7th Earl of Elgin; 11th Earl of Kincardine) born - Diplomat
1767	Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope born - Naval commander
1767	Alexander Monro (Primus) died - Anatomist
1767	Charles Lyell born - Botanist and translator of Dante
1767	Coldstream Bridge (Scottish Borders) Opened
1767	George Street (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1767	George Watson born - Portrait painter
1767	Henry Bell born - Engineer
1767	Merton Hall (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1767	Michael Bruce died - Poet and author of Gospel Sonnets or paraphrases
1767	Prof. James Hamilton born - Obstetrician and medical lecturer
1767	Robert Ferguson of Raith born - Politician and mineral collector
1768	Charles Tennant born - Industrial chemist
1768	David Hamilton born - Architect
1768	Encyclopaedia Britannica published
1768	James Alexander Haldane born - Evangelist
1768	James Short died - Astronomer and scientific instrument-maker
1768	James Thomson born - Editor and clergyman
1768	John Runciman died - Painter
1768	Rev. Thomas Mair died - Minister of the Secession Church in the parish of Orwell, Kinross-shire
1768	Robert Simson died - Mathematician
1768	St Andrew Square (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1768	William Wallace born - Mathematician and inventor
1768	Zachary Macaulay born - Abolitionist
1769	Ebenezer Picken born - The Poet of Paisley
1769	Fort George (Highland) Opened
1769	Gordon Castle (Moray) Built
1769	Hall of Clestrain (Orkney) Built
1769	James Bell born - Geographer
1769	James Dun's House (Aberdeen City) Built
1769	Major General Sir Archibald Campbell born - Heroic soldier and Governor of New Brunswick
1769	Mortonhall House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1769	Penicuik House (Midlothian) Built
1769	Queen Street (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1769	Rev. Alexander John Forsyth born - Inventor of the percussion cap
1769	Sir William Rae born - Lord Advocate and politician
1769	Whitefoord House (City of Edinburgh) Built
c.1770	Kinnaird House (Perth and Kinross) Built
c.1770	Melville House Doocot (Fife) Built
1770	Cameron House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1770	George Abercromby (2nd Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody) born - Lawyer and politician
1770	George Gordon (5th Duke of Gordon) born - Noble and General, who raised the Gordon Highlanders
1770	George Ramsay (9th Earl of Dalhousie) born - Soldier and statesman
1770	Hugh Baird born - Civil engineer
1770	James Hogg (The Ettrick Shepherd) born - Author, songwriter and poet
1770	James Paterson born - Inventor
1770	James Stirling died - Mathematician and surveyor
1770	Old Tolbooth (Shetland) Built
1770	Robert Dinwiddie died - Colonial Governor
1770	St Andrew Square Garden (City of Edinburgh) Created
1770	William Nicol born - Mineralogist and physicist
1770	William Wordsworth born - Romantic Poet
1771	Colinton Parish Church (City of Edinburgh) Built
1771	Dorothy Wordsworth born - Poet and diarist
1771	Francis Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas (6th Earl of Wemyss; 4th Earl of March) born - Noble
1771	James Dickson died - Wealthy merchant and agricultural improver
1771	James Montgomery born - Poet
1771	Mungo Park born - Explorer
1771	Register House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1771	Robert Owen born - Social reformer and entrepreneur
1771	Robert Sandeman died - Sect leader
1771	Robert Saunders Dundas (2nd Viscount Melville) born - Politician, lawyer and First Lord of the Admiralty
1771	Sir Andrew Mitchell died - Diplomat
1771	Sir James McGrigor born - Military surgeon, credited with laying the foundations of the Royal Army Medical Corps
1771	Sir Walter Scott born - Prodigious writer, patriot and enthusiast for all things Scottish
1771	Sydney Smith born - Clergyman, writer, wit and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review
1771	Thomas Douglas (5th Earl of Selkirk) born - Philanthropist and coloniser
1771	Tobias George Smollett died - Author
1771	William Maule of Panmure (1st Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar) born - Laird
c.1772	Hay Lodge Hospital (Scottish Borders) Built
1772	Allan Glen born - Philanthropist
1772	Cromarty House (Highland) Built
1772	David Mushet born - Industrialist and metallurgist
1772	Dundas House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1772	General Sir George Murray born - Soldier, statesman and politician
1772	James Ballantyne born - Printer and Publisher
1772	John Baildon born - Iron-founder
1772	North Bridge (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1772	Robert Stevenson born - Engineer
1772	Sir James Erskine of Torrie born - Soldier, amateur artist and collector
1772	Sir John Abercromby born - General
1772	Troup House School (Aberdeenshire) Built
1773	Alexander Monro (Tertius) born - Anatomist
1773	Caldwell House (East Renfrewshire) Built
1773	Captain Simon Fraser born - Fiddler, collector and composer of folk tunes
1773	Cromarty Courthouse Museum (Highland) Built
1773	Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey) born - Lawyer, critic and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review
1773	Friars' Carse Hotel (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1773	Friendville (Aberdeen City) Built
1773	George Buchanan died - Wealthy Glasgow merchant
1773	James Mill born - Philosopher, historian and economist, who was a founder of University College London
1773	John Glass died - Sect leader
1773	Letterfourie House (Moray) Built
1773	Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson born - Soldier, politician and landowner
1773	Robert Brown born - Botanist, who gave the name 'nucleus' to the structure which controls cells
1773	Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane born - Soldier and astronomer
1773	Thomas Thomson born - Scientist
1774	Archibald Constable born - Publisher
1774	Dr. Henry Duncan born - Father of the Savings Banks
1774	East Kilbride Old Parish Church (South Lanarkshire) Built
1774	Inveresk Gate (East Lothian) Built
1774	Inverleith House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1774	John Ballantyne born - Printer and publisher, born in Kelso
1774	John Murray (3rd Duke of Atholl) died - Politician and soldier
1774	John Wilson (Old Jock) born - Marine artist
1774	Prof. Robert Jameson born - Geologist and naturalist
1774	Rev. Thomas Dick born - Author, clergyman, philosopher and astronomer
1774	Robert Fergusson died - Poet and song-writer
1774	Robert Reid born - King's architect and surveyor in Scotland
1774	Robert Tannahill born - Poet, flautist and song-writer
1774	Robert Thom born - Engineer
1774	Rossdhu House (Argyll and Bute) Built
1774	Saddell House (Argyll and Bute) Built
1774	Sir Charles Bell born - Anatomist and surgeon
1774	Smollett Monument (West Dunbartonshire) Erected
1774	St Patrick's Church (City of Edinburgh) Built
1774	The Harelaw Limestone Quarry (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1774	Thomas Gillespie died - Clergyman
1774	William Farquhar born - Founder and first colonial administrator of Singapore
c.1775	Sophia Inglis Memorial (Midlothian) Erected
1775	Alexander James Adie born - Optician, instrument manufacturer and meteorologist
1775	Alexander Murray born - Classical scholar and linguist
1775	Andrew Foulis died - Printer and publisher
1775	James Abercromby died - Colonialist
1775	Lower North Water Bridge (Aberdeenshire) Opened
1775	Major John Pitcairn died - Royal Marine officer, who fought in the American War of Independence
1775	Thomas Cochrane (10th Earl of Dundonald) born - Naval commander
1775	Tobacco Merchant's House (Glasgow City) Built
1775	Wedderburn Castle (Scottish Borders) Built
1776	Captain Sir Samuel Brown born - Civil engineer and naval commander
1776	City Observatory (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1776	David Hume died - Philosopher, historian, agnostic and leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment
1776	General Charles Schaw Cathcart (9th Lord Cathcart) died - Soldier and diplomat
1776	James Duff (4th Earl of Fife) born - Soldier
1776	James Ferguson died - Engineer, astronomer, lecturer and artist
1776	James Gillespie Graham born - Architect
1776	James Jardine born - Civil Engineer
1776	John Lyon (9th Earl of Strathmore; John Bowes-Lyon) died - Noble
1776	John Struthers born - Minor poet and editor
1776	Robert Bald born - Surveyor and mining engineer
1776	Robert Foulis died - Printer and publisher
1776	Sir James Abercromby (1st Lord Dunfermline) born - Politician and lawyer
1776	William Blackwood born - Publisher and bookseller
1777	Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland born - Naval commander
1777	Admiral Sir John Ross born - Arctic explorer
1777	Archers' Hall (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1777	Culzean Castle (South Ayrshire) Built
1777	General Hugh Mercer died - Military commander and hero of the American Revolutionary War
1777	James Aitken (John the Painter) died - Terrorist, who tried to destroy the British naval dockyards
1777	James Ferguson (Lord Pitfour) died - Advocate and judge
1777	James Glen died - American governor
1777	John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell (7th Duke of Argyll) born - Brother of George William Campbell (1766 - 1839), the 6th Duke and son of John Campbell (1723 - 1806), the 5th Duke
1777	Old High School (City of Edinburgh) Built
1777	Sir John Murray of Broughton died - Advisor and confidant to Bonnie Prince Charlie
1777	Thomas Allan born - Banker, newspaper proprietor and mineralogist
1777	William Tassie born - Glass engraver and portraitist
1778	Charles Darwin died - Unfortunate medical student
1778	Charles Douglas (3rd Duke of Queensberry; 2nd Duke of Dover) died - Noble
1778	Francis Horner born - Politician and economist
1778	Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow City) Built
1778	George Keith (10th Earl Marischal) died - Unsuccessful Jacobite General
1778	Henry Peter Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) born - Inventor, lawyer and politician
1778	James Lumsden born - Businessman and Lord Provost of Glasgow
1778	James Pillans born - Academic
1778	John Knox born - Painter
1778	John Strachan born - First Bishop of Toronto
1778	Langholm Bridge (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1778	Prof. Andrew Ure born - Scientist
1778	Rev. John Thomson born - Minister at Duddingston and artist
1779	Elizabeth Crichton (Elizabeth Grierson) born - Founder of the Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries
1779	Henry Thomas Cockburn (Lord Cockburn) born - Barrister, judge, historian and conservationist
1779	John Galt born - Novelist
1779	John Wilson Ewbank born - Painter
1779	Leith Fort (City of Edinburgh) Built
1779	Oxford Bar (City of Edinburgh) Built
1779	Rev. Dr. John Lee born - Academic who rose to become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
c.1780	Bod of Gremista (Shetland) Built
c.1780	Gracemount House (City of Edinburgh) Built
c.1780	Liberton Bank House (City of Edinburgh) Built
c.1780	Pollock Halls of Residence (City of Edinburgh) Built
c.1780	Rosehall (Highland) Built
c.1780	Salisbury Green (City of Edinburgh) Built
1780	Alexander Allan born - Captain and ship-owner
1780	Barnbarroch (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1780	Dr. Thomas Chalmers born - Founder of the Free Church of Scotland
1780	John Abercrombie born - Physician and medical scientist
1780	Mary Somerville born - Mathematician and scientist, born in Jedburgh, the daughter of a naval officer (Vice-Admiral Sir William Fairfax)
1780	Murrayfield Hospital (City of Edinburgh) Built
1780	Norman Macleod born - Religious leader
1780	Patrick Ferguson died - Inventor and soldier
1780	Prof. Adam Anderson born - Educationalist and pioneering engineer, who modernised the utility infrastructure of Perth
1780	Queensberry Monument (Dumfries and Galloway) Erected
1780	Robert Archibald Smith born - Minor composer and collector of songs
1780	Sir George Ballingall born - Military surgeon
1780	Straloch (Aberdeenshire) Built
1780	Thomas Nelson (Thomas Neilson) born - Publisher
c.1781	Robert Burns Centre (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1781	Auchtermuchty Parish Church (Fife) Built
1781	James Barr born - Composer
1781	John Smith born - Aberdeen architect
1781	North Breakwater (Aberdeen City) Opened
1781	Sir David Brewster born - Physicist
1781	Sir Lawrence Dundas died - Merchant, entrepreneur and politician
1781	The Sunnyside Psychiatric Museum (Angus) Built
1781	William Chadwell Mylne born - Engineer
1781	William Mitchell born - Entrepreneur
1781	William Ritchie born - Publisher
c.1782	Andrew Usher born - Spirit merchant
1782	Charles MacLaren born - Editor
1782	General William Maule (1st Earl of Panmure of Forth) died - Soldier and politician
1782	James Alexander Gordon born - Admiral
1782	James Chalmers born - Inventor
1782	John Campbell (3rd Earl of Breadalbane) died - Noble, politician and diplomat
1782	Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone born - Unsuccessful military commander
1782	Oxenfoord Castle (Midlothian) Built
1782	Sir William Allan born - Artist and traveller
1783	Alexander Nimmo born - Surveyor, engineer and educationalist
1783	Charles Murray Cathcart (2nd Earl of Cathcart; Lord Greenock) born - Soldier and geologist
1783	Dr. John Crawfurd born - Colonial administrator and orientalist
1783	Isabella (Tibbie) Shiels born - Inn-keeper and Borders worthy
1783	James Baillie Fraser born - Traveller, author and painter
1783	John Glassford died - Tobacco Lord
1783	St Enoch Square (Glasgow City) Constructed
1783	William Hunter died - Pioneer in the field of Obstetrics
1784	Adam Black born - Publisher
1784	Alexander Ross died - Poet
1784	Allan Ramsay died - Artist
1784	Col. Alexander Abercromby born - Soldier and politician
1784	Dr. Samuel Johnson died - English author, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer
1784	George Hamilton-Gordon (4th Earl of Aberdeen) born - Politician and British Prime Minister
1784	James Bremner born - Naval architect and engineer
1784	James Gall born - Publisher and inventor of a system of print for the blind
1784	Knockando Wool Mill (Moray) Opened
1784	Richard Oswald died - Influential merchant who amassed great wealth from plantations in the West Indies
1784	St Andrew's and St George's Church (City of Edinburgh) Built
1784	Thomas Hamilton born - Architect
1784	William Jardine born - Trader and entrepreneur
1785	Alexander Runciman died - Painter
1785	Ewan MacPhee born - Outlaw, known as Scotland's last bandit
1785	James Andrew Anderson born - Banker
1785	John James Audubon (Jean Jacques Audubon) born - Ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator
1785	Leonard Horner born - Social reformer and geologist
1785	Leuchie House (East Lothian) Built
1785	Matthew Stewart died - Mathematician
1785	Prof. John Wilson (Christopher North) born - Author, poet, critic and editor
1785	Sir David Wilkie born - Painter
1785	Sir William Jackson Hooker born - Botanist and first Director of Kew Gardens (London)
1785	Thomas De Quincey born - Author and poet
1785	William Cochran died - Artist
1786	Alexander Fraser born - Painter
1786	George Ross died - Laird and businessman
1786	John Clunies Ross born - Seaman, explorer and adventurer
1786	Marischal Museum (Aberdeen City) Opened
1786	Melville Castle (Midlothian) Built
1786	Pease Bridge (Scottish Borders) Opened
1786	Prof. John Hope died - Botanist
1786	Simpson House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1786	St Andrew's Square (Glasgow City) Constructed
1786	Stanley Mills (Perth and Kinross) Built
1786	William John Napier (9th Lord Napier) born - Sailor and diplomat
c.1787	John Lizars born - Surgeon
c.1787	Sir George Simpson born - Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada, who became known as the father of the Canadian fur trade
1787	Alexander Maconochie born - Geographer and penal reformer
1787	Assembly Rooms (City of Edinburgh) Built
1787	Bridge of Dun (Angus) Opened
1787	David Wemyss (Lord Elcho) died - Jacobite
1787	General Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas born - Soldier
1787	George Hay (8th Marquess of Tweeddale) born - Soldier
1787	George Ramsay (8th Earl of Dalhousie) died - Noble and mason
1787	Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse (Aberdeenshire) Built
1787	Lord John Murray died - Hanoverian general
1787	Patrick Nasmyth born - Artist
1787	Rev. John Brown died - Preacher and author
1787	Robert Dundas of Arniston (4th Lord Arniston) died - Judge and politician
1787	Sir James Hunter Blair died - Politician and banker
1787	Sir John Forbes born - Physician
1787	Sir John Richardson born - Naturalist and explorer
1787	The Linlithgow Story (West Lothian) Built
1787	Thomas Hay (9th Earl of Kinnoull) died - Noble and politician
c.1788	David Henderson died - Architect and mason
1788	Andrew Picken born - Author
1788	Ardtaraig House (Argyll and Bute) Built
1788	Basil Hall born - Traveller and author
1788	Eaglesham Old and Carswell Parish Church (East Renfrewshire) Built
1788	George Younger died - Brewer
1788	Hugh Clapperton born - Explorer, born in Annan (Dumfries and Galloway)
1788	Liberton Golf Club (City of Edinburgh) Built
1788	Margaret Stuart Hamilton Tyndall-Bruce born - Heiress and landowner
1788	Mayen House (Moray) Built
1788	Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse (Argyll and Bute) Built
1788	Neil Arnott born - Inventor, natural philosopher and physician
1788	Old Aberdeen Town House (Aberdeen City) Built
1788	Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) died - The "Young Pretender"
1788	Sir John Watson Gordon born - Painter
1788	Sir Samuel Greig died - Born in Inverkeithing (Fife), Greig served in the British Navy
1788	Sir William Hamilton born - Philosopher and educationalist
1788	South Bridge (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1788	Thomas Short died - Optician and astronomer
1788	Vice Admiral Robert Wauchope born - Inventor and naval commander
1788	William Brodie (Deacon Brodie) died - Ingenious burglar
1788	William Home Lizars born - Artist and engraver
1788	Yair (Scottish Borders) Built
1789	Abercrombie's Jetty (Aberdeen City) Opened
1789	Andrew Melrose born - Tea merchant and grocer
1789	Auchterderran Parish Church (Fife) Built
1789	Charlotte Stuart (Duchess of Albany) died - Only acknowledged daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie
1789	Frederick McAdam Cathcart born - Diplomat and soldier
1789	James Burns born - Ship-owner
1789	James Ramsay died - Naval surgeon and abolitionist
1789	John Ramsay McCulloch born - Economist
1789	Mary MacDougal MacDonald born - Gaelic hymn-writer and poet
1789	Old College (City of Edinburgh) Built
1789	Old North Ronaldsay Light Beacon (Orkney) Built
1789	Sir William Fairbairn born - Engineer
1789	Stephen Mitchell born - Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist
1789	The Johnstone Mausoleum (Clackmannanshire) Erected
1789	Thomas Pringle born - Minor poet and reformer
1789	William Bald born - Engineer, surveyor and cartographer
1789	William Burn born - Architect
1789	William Collins born - Publisher
1789	William Glen born - Minor poet
1789	William Henry (Christie) Miller (Christie Miller) born - Eccentric politician
1789	William Henry Playfair born - Architect
c.1790	Arthurstone House (Perth and Kinross) Built
c.1790	Ravelston House (City of Edinburgh) Built
C.1790	Arthurstone House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1790	Adam Smith died - Economist and philosopher
1790	Alexander Dennistoun born - Cotton trader
1790	Archibald Simpson born - Aberdeen-based architect
1790	Balblair Distillery (Highland) Opened
1790	Brechin Museum (Angus) Built
1790	Castle Lachlan (Argyll and Bute) Built
1790	Chesters (Scottish Borders) Built
1790	David Napier born - Marine engineer
1790	Dunrossness Kirk (Shetland) Built
1790	Fetlar Kirk (Shetland) Built
1790	Flora MacDonald died - Reluctant heroine
1790	Forth and Clyde Canal (Falkirk) Opened
1790	Gosford House (East Lothian) Built
1790	Harold's Tower (Highland) Built
1790	Hunter Square (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1790	James Lockhart-Wishart (Count Lockhart-Wishart of Lee and Carnwath) died - Soldier
1790	Johnstone Mausoleum (Dumfries and Galloway) Erected
1790	Major General William Roy died - Surveyor and cartographer
1790	Nethergate House (Dundee City) Built
1790	Onesiphorous Tyndall-Bruce born - English barrister who became, through marriage, a noted figure in the history of Falkland
1790	Pitcalzean House (Highland) Built
1790	Prof. William Cullen died - Physiologist
1790	Robert Forrest born - Sculptor
1790	Thomas Campbell born - Sculptor
1790	William Mylne died - Architect
1791	Airthrey Castle (Stirling) Built
1791	Andrew Rutherfurd born - Advocate, judge and politician
1791	Burn House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1791	Dr. Robert Knox born - Anatomist
1791	Elspat Buchan (Elsbeth or Elizabeth Buchan) died - Sect leader
1791	Patrick Shirreff born - Farmer and pioneer of cereal hybridisation
1791	Rev. Hew Scott born - Ecclesiastical editor
1791	Robert Napier born - Engineer and pioneer of ship-building on the River Clyde
1791	Trades' Hall (Glasgow City) Built
1792	Arthur Anderson born - Ship owner
1792	Bridge of Ross (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1792	Ebenezer Scroggie born - Edinburgh merchant who provided Charles Dickens with the inspiration for the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge
1792	Edward Irving born - Charismatic preacher
1792	Field Marshall Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde) born - Outstanding soldier
1792	Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Glasgow City) Built / Opened
1792	James Beaumont Neilson born - Inventor and industrialist
1792	John Adam died - Architect
1792	John Paul Jones died - Naval pioneer
1792	John Stuart (3rd Earl of Bute) died - British prime minister
1792	Raehills (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1792	Robert Adam died - Architect
1792	Sir David Dalrymple (3rd Baronet Hailes; Lord Hailes) died - Lawyer, judge and historian
1792	Sir Roderick Impey Murchison born - Geologist and geographer
1792	Theatre Royal (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1792	Thomas Binnie born - Builder, property developer and philanthropist
1792	William Burke born - Resurrectionist and Murderer
1793	Alexander Gordon Laing born - African explorer
1793	Daniel Lizars born - Engraver, printer and publisher
1793	David Stow born - Education pioneer
1793	Dean Edward Bannerman Burnett Ramsay born - Clergyman
1793	Dr. Robert Lee born - Pioneering gynaecologist
1793	Dunnikier House (Fife) Built
1793	Francis Garden (Lord Gardenstone) died - Judge
1793	Jacob More died - Painter
1793	James Small died - Inventor
1793	John Crichton-Stuart (2nd Marquess of Bute) born - Entrepreneur
1793	John Hunter died - Pioneer of surgery and dentistry
1793	Lord George Gordon died - Infamous politician
1793	Lord John Hay born - Naval commander
1793	Monkland Canal (Glasgow City) Opened
1793	Rev. Henry Francis Lyte born - One of the great Victorian hymn-writers
1793	Sir David Baxter born - Textiles manufacturer and benefactor
1793	Westerkirk Library (Dumfries and Galloway) Established
1793	William Aiton died - Botanist
1793	William Campbell born - International trader and philanthropist
1793	William Dick born - Pioneer of veterinary education in Scotland and founder of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Science
1793	William Robertson died - Historian
c.1794	Babbity Bowster (Glasgow City) Built
1794	Alison Cockburn (Alison Rutherford) died - Poetess, songwriter and socialite
1794	Charles Lawson born - Botanist and Traveller
1794	Dr. John Roebuck died - Inventor and entrepreneur, who was a leader of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland
1794	Elizabeth Gordon (Duchess of Gordon, 'The Good Duchess') born - Noted for her charitable works
1794	General James Murray died - First Governor of Canada
1794	George Cleghorn died - Medical pioneer
1794	Greyfriars Free Church (Highland) Built
1794	James Adam died - Architect
1794	James Bruce died - Early Explorer
1794	James Lind died - Naval physician
1794	James Playfair died - Architect
1794	John Anderson born - Merchant and banker
1794	John Graham Gilbert (John Graham) born - Portrait painter and colourist
1794	John Smeaton died - An English engineer of Scottish descent, born at Austhorpe near Leeds, Smeaton has been dubbed the father of civil engineering
1794	John Witherspoon died - Clergyman born in Gifford, East Lothian
1794	John Zephaniah Bell born - Artist
1794	Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart born - Soldier
1794	Monreith House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1794	New Bridge (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1794	Oban Distillery (Argyll and Bute) Opened
1794	Preston Hall (Midlothian) Built
1794	Robert Liston born - Surgeon
1794	Thomas Grainger born - Pioneering railway engineer
c.1795	James Miranda Barry born - Army surgeon and, through deception, the world's first female doctor
1795	Dr. Robert Moffat born - Missionary and explorer
1795	George Meikle Kemp born - Architect and draughtsman
1795	James Boswell died - Biographer and traveller
1795	James Braid born - Surgeon and pioneer in the field of hypnosis
1795	James Craig died - Architect
1795	Rear Admiral Robert Aitchison born - Naval commander
1795	Sir George Burns born - Shipping magnate
1795	The Arched House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1795	Thomas Carlyle born - Writer, historian, philosopher and literary critic
1795	Walter Geikie born - Artist
1795	William Lyon Mackenzie born - Politician and radical
1795	William Smellie died - Printer and natural historian
1796	Ardinning, Loch (Stirling) Opened
1796	David Allan died - Artist and portrait painter
1796	David Roberts born - Painter
1796	Eglinton Castle (North Ayrshire) Built
1796	Georgian House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1796	John Anderson died - Scientist
1796	No.5 Charlotte Square (City of Edinburgh) Built
1796	Rev. Dr. John Anderson born - Clergyman and scientist
1796	Robert Burns died - Poet and writer
1796	Robert Foulis born - Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor
1796	Rothesay High Kirk (Argyll and Bute) Built
1796	Sir James Matheson born - Trader and entrepreneur
1796	Sir William Chambers died - Architect
1796	Thomas Reid died - Philosopher
1796	William Baird born - Industrialist and politician
1797	Archibald McLellan born - Coach-builder and patron of the arts
1797	Cloch Lighthouse (Inverclyde) Built
1797	Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (The Highland Lady) born - Writer and social observer
1797	Hermand House (West Lothian) Built
1797	James Gillespie died - Snuff manufacturer and philanthropist
1797	James Hutton died - Father of modern geology, born in Edinburgh
1797	Joan (Jackie) Crookston died - Famously died resisted the Militia Act of 1797
1797	Matthew Brisbane born - Antarctic explorer and Falkland Islands settler
1797	Murdoch Mackenzie died - Surveyor and marine cartographer
1797	Sir Charles Lyell born - Influential geologist
1797	Sir Robert Christison born - Pioneering toxicologist
1797	Thomas Drummond born - Surveyor, inventor and politician
1797	William MacDonald Mackenzie born - Architect
1797	William Motherwell born - Poet, antiquary and journalist
c.1798	The Roundhouse (Aberdeen City) Built
1798	Andrew Bannatyne born - Politician, lawyer and businessman
1798	Blair Athol Distillery (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1798	David Macbeth Moir born - Author and Physician
1798	Gavin Hamilton died - Painter
1798	George Don born - Botanist and plant collector
1798	Joanna Belfrage Picken born - Minor poet
1798	John Baird born - Architect
1798	Robert Pollok born - Poet
1798	Sir William Edmond Logan born - Geologist
1798	Thomas Henderson born - Astronomer
c.1799	Hunterston House (North Ayrshire) Built
1799	David Douglas born - Adventurous botanist
1799	David Hutcheson born - Ship owner
1799	James Bowman Lindsay born - Born in Carmyllie, near Arbroath, Lindsay was a visionary and pioneer in the field of electricity
1799	James Syme born - Surgeon
1799	James Tassie died - Glass and gemstone engraver
1799	Lord Robert Macqueen Braxfield died - Lawyer and 'hanging judge'
1799	Peter Williamson (Indian Peter) died - Reformer
1799	Prof. Joseph Black died - Chemist
1799	Rev. Patrick Bell born - Invented the reaping machine which was a direct precursor of the modern combine harvester
1799	Thomas Muir died - Radical reformer
1799	William Thom born - Minor poet
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