1726 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1726 Events from the year 1726 in Scotland. Incumbents Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant Law officers Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange Events c. April/May – General George Wade begins an 11-year construction program on military roads of Scotland.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 212–213 0-7126-5616-2 25 May – Britain's first circulating libraryRichard Altick Altick Richard D. The English Common Reader University of Chicago Press 1957 is opened in EdinburghChronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-08-15 by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay. 23 June – professional Irish swordsman Andrew Bryan is defeated in a public duel in Edinburgh by 62-year-old Killiecrankie veteran Donald Bane "to the great joy of the Edinburgh citizenry".Notable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm The Scots Independent 2016-02-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm 26 January 2016 dead A faculty of medicine is formally established at the University of Edinburgh, a predecessor of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. John Rutherford becomes Professor of Practice of Medicine. Births 17 January – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777 of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton) 6 February – Patrick Russell, surgeon and herpetologist (died 1805 in London) 3 June – James Hutton, geologist (died 1797) 26 September – John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796) Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1809) Thomas Melvill, natural philosopher (died 1753) Deaths 8 July – John Ker, spy (born 1673) August – Colonel John Stewart (of Livingstone), former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs 25 November – Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, judge The arts James Thomson begins publication of his poem cycle The Seasons with "Winter". See also 1726 in Great Britain References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland