Events from the year 1718 in Scotland.

Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

Lord Advocate His Majesty's Advocate, known as the Lord Advocate ( gd, Morair Tagraidh, sco, Laird Advocat), is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved p ...

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Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes (1665 – 3 December 1721) was a Scottish advocate and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1721. He served as Lord Advo ...

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– Robert Dundas

Judiciary

Lord President of the Court of Session The Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General is the most senior judge in Scotland, the head of the judiciary, and the presiding judge of the College of Justice, the Court of Session, and the High Court of Justiciary. The L ...

– Lord North Berwick *

Lord Justice General Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...

– Lord Ilay *

Lord Justice Clerk The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session. Originally ''clericus justiciarie'' or Clerk to the Court of Justiciary, the counterpart in the criminal courts of the Lord ...

– Lord Grange

Events

Damask Damask (; ar, دمشق) is a reversible patterned fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Damasks are woven with one warp yarn and one weft yarn, usually with the pattern in warp-faced satin ...

linen industry established at Dunfermline by James Blake and at Drumsheugh. *

Marrow Controversy The Marrow Controversy was a Scottish ecclesiastical dispute occasioned by the republication in 1718 of ''The Marrow of Modern Divinity'' (originally published in two parts in London in 1645 and 1649 by "E. F.", generally believed to be a pseud ...

, an ecclesiastical dispute. *

Old Calton Burial Ground The Old Calton Burial Ground is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It located at Calton Hill to the north-east of the city centre. The burial ground was opened in 1718, and is the resting place of several notable Scots, including philosopher ...

established on

Calton Hill Calton Hill () is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the cit ...

, Edinburgh, by the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton. * ''Edinburgh Evening Courant'' newspaper launched. * First passage to America of a ship built on the Clyde, and belonging to Glasgow. * Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany at the

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established.

Births

* 18 February – Robert Henry, historian (died

1790 Events January–March * January 8 – United States President George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. * January 11 – The 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands, which took ...

)Nimmo, William (1880).
The History of Stirlingshire
', revised by W. M. Stirling and R. Gillespie. * 7 April – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (died 1800 in Scotland, 1800) * 29 April – Robert Sandeman (theologian), Robert Sandeman, theologian (died 1771 in Danbury, Connecticut) * 23 May – William Hunter (anatomist), William Hunter, anatomist and obstetrician (died 1783 in London)

Deaths

* 1 May – Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet, of Minto, judge, politician and writer (born c. 1650s in Scotland, 1650)

References

1718 in Scotland, Years of the 18th century in Scotland 1718 in Great Britain, Scotland 1710s in Scotland {{Scotland-hist-stub