1778 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1778 Events from the year 1778 in Scotland. Incumbents 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 Duke of Queensberry until 22 October; then from 23 October The Viscount Stormont Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming Events 24 April – American Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel: Scottish-born John Paul Jones in the Ranger 1777 captures Drake 1777 in the North Channel off Carrickfergus. 15 May – 78th Regiment of Foot raised by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, at Elgin.The Scottish Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments MacLauchlan, Thomas A. Fullarton & Co. Glasgow c. 1885 1st 7 524 In Summer, there is a brief "Mutiny of MacRaes" at Edinburgh. 28 May – Recruiting Act 1778, applying only to London and Scotland, provides for 3-year service in the British Army with a bounty of £3, and for the impressment as soldiers of "all able-bodied idle, and disorderly persons, who could not ... prove themselves to ... follow some lawful trade or employment". The Court of Session decides an appeal by slave Joseph Knight which effectively declares that slavery is illegal in Scotland.Slavery, freedom or perpetual servitude? - the Joseph Knight case http://www.nas.gov.uk/about/071022.asp National Archives of Scotland National Records of Scotland Edinburgh 2007-10-23 2016-01-25 First cotton mill in Scotland established at Penicuik.The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry 1778-1914 Anthony Cooke Manchester University Press 2010 9780719080821 Younger's Brewery established in Edinburgh. Inhabited House Tax first imposed. Highland Society of London established with "the view of establishing and supporting schools in the Highlands and in the Northern parts of Great Britain, for relieving distressed Highlanders at a distance from their native homes, for preserving the antiquities and rescuing from oblivion the valuable remains of Celtic literature, and for promoting the improvement and general welfare of the Northern parts of Great Britain". Births 9 January – Thomas Brown, metaphysician (died 1820 in London) 16 January – John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott, peer and soldier (died 1860 in Bruges?) 24 March – Robert Fleming Gourlay, agriculturist in Canada and writer (died 1863) 18 April – Mary Bruce, Countess of Elgin, née Nisbet (died 1855) 18 May – Andrew Ure, doctor, industrial chemist and encyclopaedist (died 1857 in London) 11 August – John Christian Schetky, marine painter (died 1874 in London) 1 November – Mary Brunton, novelist (died 1818)Royle Trevor The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature 2012 Random House 9781780574196 92 https://books.google.com/books?id=r8C1I7yD8wUC&pg=PT92 en Robert Davidson, peasant poet (died 1855) Approximate date – Anna Maria Walker, née Patton, botanist (died 1852 in India) Deaths 31 October – Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald, nobleman, army officer and politician (born 1691) 15 December – Catherine Read, portrait painter (born 1723) Rob Donn, Gaelic poet (born 1714) Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry (born 1698) George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal, Jacobite and Prussian soldier and diplomat (born 1692/3?; died at Potsdam) See also Scotland Timeline of Scottish history References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1770s in Scotland Scotland