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词条 1773 in Scotland
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  1. Incumbents

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  2. Events

  3. Births

  4. Deaths

  5. See also

  6. References

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1773 }}

Events from the year 1773 in Scotland.

Incumbents

{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
  • Monarch – George III

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

  • 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

{{Portal|Scotland}}
  • Timeline of Scottish history

References

1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=The Scots Independent|accessdate=2016-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm|archive-date=25 January 2016|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/scotland/5436463/Western-Isles-High-road-and-low-in-Dr-Johnsons-Scotland.html|first=Nigel|last=Tisdall|title=Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=2009-06-03|accessdate=2013-02-03}}
3. ^{{cite book|first=James|last=Boswell|title=The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides|year=1785}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/bpma_docs/Provincialpennyposts.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20100214195058/http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/bpma_docs/Provincialpennyposts.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2010-02-14 |title=Provincial Penny Posts |publisher=British Postal Museum & Archive |accessdate=2016-01-26 |df=dmy }}
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