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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1780 }}Events from the year 1780 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events - 31 May – James Watt patents a copying machine.[1]
- 18 December – the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is formed.[2]
- Dalmally Bridge built.[3]
- Böd of Gremista built in Lerwick.
- Approximate date
- James Small produces a two-horse swing plough using Carron Company iron.[4]
- Kilcalmonell Parish Church at Clachan, Kintyre, is rebuilt.
Births - 26 February – Alexander Allan, shipowner (died 1854)
- 17 March – Thomas Chalmers, Free Church leader (died 1847)
- 29 March – Walter Watson, weaver poet (died 1854)
- 3 April – Walter Newall, architect and civil engineer (died 1863)
- 10 October – John Abercrombie, physician and philosopher (died 1844)
- 16 November – Robert Archibald Smith, composer (died 1829)
- 5 December – Patrick Sellar, lawyer, factor and sheep farmer instrumental in the Highland Clearances (died 1851)
- 26 December – Mary Somerville, née Fairfax, mathematician (died 1872 in Naples)
- David Buchan, naval officer and Arctic explorer (lost at sea 1838)
- Colquhoun Grant, British Army officer (died 1829 in Aachen)
- William Laird, shipbuilder (died 1841 in Birkenhead)
- Robert Pinkerton, Bible missionary (died 1859 in Reigate)
- Andrew Wilson, landscape painter (died 1848)
Deaths - 7 October – Patrick Ferguson, British Army officer and designer of the Ferguson rifle (born 1744; killed in Battle of Kings Mountain)
- 26 November – Sir James Steuart Denham, economist (born 1713)
Sport - Royal Aberdeen Golf Club founded as the 'Society of Golfers at Aberdeen'.
See also {{Portal|Scotland}}- Timeline of Scottish history
References 1. ^English Patent 1,244, accepted 14 February.
2. ^{{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=2016-01-22|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}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Dalmally, Dalmally Bridge|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/96800/dalmally-dalmally-bridge|work=Canmore|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|date=1976|accessdate=2016-01-22}}
4. ^{{cite web|first=Jonathan|last=Brown|title=Small, James (bap. 1740, d. 1793)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51709|accessdate=2016-03-10|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51709}} {{ODNBsub}}
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