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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1770 }}Events from the year 1770 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events - 12 April – Monkland Canal authorized.
- 9 March – haggis is served on board Captain James Cook's ship {{HMS|Endeavour}}, anchored off New Zealand, in celebration of the birthday of a Scottish officer on board, Cook himself having a Scottish father.[1]
- 14 November – Scottish explorer James Bruce is shown the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.[1]
- Emigrants from the Highland Clearances in the Hebrides migrate to Prince Edward Island, and to Glasgow where the Gaelic-speaking congregation of St Columba Church of Scotland is formed.
- Montgomery's Entail Act remedies the system of short leases on agricultural properties.[2]
- Plans for improvement of the harbour at Dundee proposed by John Smeaton[3] and Glasgow Town Council begins deepening the navigable River Clyde.[2]
- Approximate date
- Bridge at Bridge of Weir constructed at Burngill.
- Harbour at Charlestown, Fife, begun by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
- The Fordell Railway constructed in Fife.
Births - 2 February – George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836 in London)
- c. 25 March – Alexander Carse, genre painter (died 1843)
- 18 April – William Nicol, geologist (died 1851)
- 9 December (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (died 1835)
Deaths - 27 July – Robert Dinwiddie, colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693; died in Virginia)
- 1 November – Alexander Cruden, Biblical scholar (born 1699; died in London)
- 9 November – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Whig politician (born c. 1693)
- 5 December – James Stirling, mathematician (born 1692)
- Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (born c. 1698)
The arts- David Dalrymple's anthology of Ancient Scottish Poems is published.
See also {{Portal|Scotland}}- Timeline of Scottish history
References 1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Chronology of Scottish History|work=A Timeline of Scottish History|publisher=Rampant Scotland|url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm|accessdate=2016-01-26}}
2. ^1 {{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=80}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=McKean|first1=Charles|last2=Whatley|first2=Patricia|title=Lost Dundee: Dundee's Lost Architectural Heritage|year=2008|publisher=Birlinn|location=Edinburgh|isbn=978-1-84158-562-8|pages=12–13}}
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