1773 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1773 Events from the year 1773 in Scotland. Incumbents 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 thumb|Hector (replica) 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.Notable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2016-01-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm 25 January 2016 dead dmy-all 6 August – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotlandhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/scotland/5436463/Western-Isles-High-road-and-low-in-Dr-Johnsons-Scotland.html Nigel Tisdall Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles The Daily Telegraph London 2009-06-03 2013-02-03 where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 1785 On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald. Penny Post introduced in Edinburgh.http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/bpma_docs/Provincialpennyposts.html https://archive.today/20100214195058/http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/bpma_docs/Provincialpennyposts.html dead 2010-02-14 Provincial Penny Posts British Postal Museum & Archive 2016-01-26 dmy 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 Scotland Timeline of Scottish history References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1770s in Scotland Scotland