Events from the year 1750 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange * Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston the Elder * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

Events

Robert Gordon's College Robert Gordon's College is a co-educational Independent school (UK) for day pupils in Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6. History Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant, made his fortune in 18th century ...

, Aberdeen, opens. * James Short's

Gregorian telescope The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in the 17th century, and first built in 1673 by Robert Hooke. James Gregory was a contemporary of Isaac Newton. Both often ...

(38 cm (14″) aperture reflector), the world's largest at this date, is constructed. * Approximate date – Alexander Stephen begins shipbuilding at Burghead on the

Moray Firth The Moray Firth (; Scottish Gaelic: ''An Cuan Moireach'', ''Linne Mhoireibh'' or ''Caolas Mhoireibh'') is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of north of Scotl ...

, origin of Alexander Stephen and Sons.Records of Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, shipbuilders and engineers, Linthouse, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. University of Glasgow Archives.

Births

* 7 January – Robert Anderson, literary editor (died

1803 Events * January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris. * January 5 – William Symington demonstrates his ...

) * 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825 in England) * 27 May – George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic (died

1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...

) * 15 July ''(bapt.)'' – Robert Jackson, military physician and surgeon (died 1827 in England) * 5 September – Robert Fergusson, poet writing in

Braid Scots Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly ...

(died

1774 Events January–March * January 21 – Mustafa III, List of Ottoman Sultans, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I. * January 27 ** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and f ...

) * 14 October –

John Fraser John Fraser may refer to: Politics *John Simon Frederick Fraser (1765–1803), commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was (M.P.) for Inverness-shire *John James Fraser (1829–1896), 5th Premier of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, 18 ...

, botanist (died 1811 in England) * 3 December – Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar (died 1830 in England) * 8 December –

Lady Anne Barnard Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay; 8 December 17506 May 1825) was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad ''Auld Robin Gray''. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a signific ...

, née Lindsay, poet, ballad and travel writer (died 1825 in England) * William Dunbar, merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer (died

1810 in the United States Events from the year 1810 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government * President: James Madison ( DR-Virginia) * Vice president: George Clinton ( DR-New York) * Chief justice: John Marshall (Virginia) * Speaker of the House of R ...

) * Approximate date – George Robertson, topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer (died

1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plan ...

)

Deaths

* 5 March –

Sir Alexander Reid, 2nd Baronet Sir Alexander Reid, 2nd Baronet (died 5 March 1750) was a Scottish laird and politician from Aberdeenshire. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1710 to 1713. Reid was the oldest son of Sir John Reid, 1st Baronet, of Barra in A ...

, laird and politician * 3 May –

John Willison John Willison (1680 – 3 May 1750) was an evangelical minister of the Church of Scotland and a writer of Christian literature. Life His father was laird of a small property near Stirling, where John Willison was born. He was inducted to the pa ...

, evangelical Church of Scotland minister and religious writer (born

1680 Events January–March * January 2 – King Amangkurat II of Mataram (located on the island of Java, part of modern-day Indonesia), invites Trunajaya, who had led a failed rebellion against him until his surrender on December ...

)

References

{{Years in Scotland , state=collapsed Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland 1750s in Scotland