1745 in Scotland

Events from the year 1745 in Scotland.

Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Robert Craigie
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, the younger

Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

Events

* 11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenay in the Low Countries: Although this is a decisive French victory, the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot (the ' Black Watch') distinguishes itself in its first battle.
* 23 July – Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides from the '' Du Teillay''.
* 16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
* 19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
* September – Jacobite rising: Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, is commissioned to raise 18 new Independent Highland Companies from clans loyal to the government.
* 11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.
* 16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
* 17 September – Jacobite rising: In Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.
* 21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.
* Autumn – Meikleour Beech Hedges planted.
* 13–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle, across the English border.
* December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
* 4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach as far south in England as Derby causing panic in London.
* 6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.
* 18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish, the last action between two military forces on English soil.Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh ( 1940) is counted.
* 23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
* Prospectus issued for "The Company for Improving the Linen Manufactury in Scotland", which becomes the British Linen Bank.

Births

* 12 May – William Creech, bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (died 1815)
* 24 May – Thomas Potter, industrialist, founder of Denmark's first iron foundry (died 1811 in Copenhagen)
* 23 June – James Graham, quack doctor (died 1794)
* 2 July – Robert Calder, admiral (died 1818 in Hampshire)
* 26 July – Henry Mackenzie, novelist, writer, poet and lawyer (died 1831)
* William Cruikshank, anatomist and chemist (died 1800 in London)
* Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter (died 1834)
* Approximate date – Sydney Parkinson, botanical illustrator (died 1771 at sea)

Deaths

* Spring – William Meston, poet (born c. 1688)
* May – Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange, abductee (born 1679)

References

{{Years in Scotland , state=collapsed

Years of the 18th century in Scotland
Scotland
1740s in Scotland