1765 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1765 Events from the year 1765 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto Events May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 323 an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green. Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 80 Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned. Births 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa) 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811) 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle) 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France) 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London) Deaths 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)Ewan Elizabeth Pipes Rose Rendall Jane Reynolds Siân The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women Edinburgh University Press 9781474436281 5 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea) The arts First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".Percy, Thomas Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (sic.) Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year. Scotland References collapsed Scotland Category:1790s in Scotland Scotland