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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1788 }}Events from the year 1788 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – Ilay Campbell
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas of Arniston
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Glenlee
- Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield
Events - 31 January – Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.
- 14 March – the Edinburgh Evening Courant carries a notice of £200 reward for capture of William Brodie, town councillor doubling as a burglar.
- 27 August – trial of William Brodie begins in Edinburgh. He is sentenced to death by hanging.
- 1 October – William Brodie hanged at the Tolbooth in Edinburgh.
- 14 October – William Symington demonstrates a paddle steamer on Dalswinton Loch near Dumfries.[1][2]
- Tobermory, Mull, and Ullapool are founded as herring ports by the British Fisheries Society to the designs of Thomas Telford.
- Flax mills established at Brigton in Angus and Inverbervie in Kincardineshire.
- Lowland Licence Act restricts exports of Scottish gin to England, effectively requiring a one-year pause in the trade.
- St Gregory's Church, Preshome, designed by Father John Reid, is built.
- Ring of bells cast for the new steeple of St Andrew's Church in New Town, Edinburgh, the oldest complete ring in Scotland.
- General Register House in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Adam and begun in 1774, is opened to the public.[3]
- The estate house at Yair is built.
- Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition begins publication in Edinburgh.
Births - 31 January – John Ewart, architect and businessman in North America (died 1856 in Canada)
- April – George Ferguson, naval officer (died 1867 in London)
- 15 May – Neil Arnott, physician (died 1874 in London)
- 29 August – Ranald George Macdonald, clan chief and politician (died 1873)
- 2 September – John Strange, merchant and politician in Canada (died 1840 in Canada)
- 13 October – Thomas Erskine, lawyer and revisionary Calvinist theologian (died 1870)
- 11 November – Thomas Francis Kennedy, lawyer and politician (died 1879)
- 31 December – Basil Hall, naval officer and explorer (died 1844 in Portsmouth)
- David Lennox, builder of stone bridges in Australia (died 1873 in Australia)
- Charles Mackenzie, diplomat and journalist (died 1862 in the United States)
- George Mudie, social reformer
- James Thompson, Baptist pastor and educator in South America (died 1854 in London)
Deaths - 31 January – Charles Edward Stuart, claimant to the British throne (born 1720, and died, in Italy)
- 14 June – Adam Gib, Secession Church leader (born 1714)
- 15 October – Samuel Greig, admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy (born 1736; died in Tallinn)
The arts- December – Robert Burns writes his version of the Scots poem Auld Lang Syne.[4] From Whitsun he has been tenant of Ellisland Farm.
- William Collins publishes Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland.[5]
See also {{Portal|Scotland}}- Timeline of Scottish history
- 1788 in Great Britain
References 1. ^{{cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=W. S.|last2=Downs-Rose|first2=G.|year=1980|title=William Symington, Inventor and Engine Builder|location=London|publisher=Northgate Publishing|isbn=0-85298-443-X}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Macleod|first1=Innes|last2=Neil|first2=James|title=The Dalswinton steamboat 1788–1988|location=Dumfries|publisher=Farries|year=1988|isbn=0-948278-08-0}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nas.gov.uk/downloads/GeneralRegisterHouse09-2010.pdf|title=General Register House|first=John|last=McLintock|publisher=National Archives of Scotland|year=2009|accessdate=2016-01-25}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/auld_lang_syne/|title=Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2012-01-26}}
5. ^{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6}}
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