1773 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1773 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General — Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Barskimming
Events
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Hector (replica)
- Mid-July - 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 - 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 - James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (died 1836 in London)
- 12 April - Thomas Thomson, chemist and mineralogist (died 1852)
- 23 July - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
- 15 September - Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, clan chief (died 1828)
- 23 October - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
- 21 December - Robert Brown, botanist and palaeobotanist (died 1858 in London)
Deaths
- 9 February - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
See also
References
- 1 2 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
- ↑ Tisdall, Nigel (2009-06-03). "Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ Boswell, James (1785). The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
- ↑ "Provincial Penny Posts". British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
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