Events from the year 1784 in

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– Ilay Campbell *

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Robert Dundas of Arniston Robert Dundas of Arniston (6 June 1758 – 17 June 1819) was a Scottish judge. Dundas served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1784 and 1789 and as Lord Advocate from 1789 to 1801. He sat as Member of Parliament for was M.P. for Edinb ...

Judiciary

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– Lord Arniston, the younger *

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– The Viscount Stormont *

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– Lord Barskimming

Events

* 9 February –

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) was founded in Edinburgh in 1784 as the Highland Society of Edinburgh. The Society had its root in 1723 when the Society of Improvers of the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland was ...

founded as the Highland Society of Edinburgh. * May – the Buchanites are expelled from Irvine, going on to establish a celibate community at New Cample near Closeburn, Dumfriesshire. * 25 & 27 August – apothecary James Tytler makes the first balloon ascents in Great Britain, in a hot air balloon from Edinburgh. * 14 November –

Samuel Seabury Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut. He was a leading Loyalist ...

is consecrated at the house of John Skinner, coadjutor bishop of

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, as first Bishop of the

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(his native state), the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. * Highland estates whose revenues were forfeited to the government by their proprietors following the

Jacobite rising of 1745 The Jacobite rising of 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45 ( gd, Bliadhna Theàrlaich, , ), was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took ...

are restored to their legal heirs on discharge of debts. The accrued funds are primarily applied to completion of the

Forth and Clyde Canal The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowe ...

. * "Wash Act" reduces

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duty on Scotch whisky and provides a definition of the Highland Line. * St Andrew's Church in

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, opened.

Births

* 11 January – Thomas Hamilton, architect (died

1858 Events January–March * January – ** Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president. ** William I of Prussia becomes regen ...

) * 20 February –

Adam Black Adam Black (20 February 178424 January 1874) was a Scottish publisher and politician. He founded the A & C Black publishing company, and published the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Life Black was born in Ch ...

, publisher (died 1874) * 18 May – William Tennant, poet (died

1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...

) * 17 July – John Campbell, surgeon (died

1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...

) * 27 August – William Cargill, first

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(New Zealand) (died

1860 in New Zealand The following lists events that happened during 1860 in New Zealand. Incumbents Regal and viceregal *Head of State — Queen Victoria *Governor-General of New Zealand, Governor — Colonel Thomas Gore Browne leaves office on 3 October to take up ...

) * 25 September – James Bremner, shipbuilder and salvor (died

1856 Events January–March * January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California. * January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voya ...

) * 7 December – Allan Cunningham, poet and artistic biographer (died 1842 in London)

Deaths

* 29 January –

George Bogle of Daldowie George Bogle of Daldowie (1700–1784) was a Virginia merchant, a trader with the West Indies, and a considerable citizen of Glasgow, where he was one of the Tobacco Lords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, su ...

, tobacco and sugar merchant and Rector of the University of Glasgow (born

1700 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 19), where then Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 17 ...

) * 13 February –

William Burnes William Burnes or William Burness (11 November 1721 – 13 February 1784) was the father of the poet Robert Burns. He was born at either Upper Kinmonth or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Cast ...

, farmer, father of Robert Burns (born

1721 Events January–March * January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the collapse of the South Sea Company in Great Britain publishes its findings. * February 5 – James Stanhope, chief minister of Great Britain, dies a day after ...

) * 10 August – Allan Ramsay, portrait painter (born

1713 Events January–March * January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ref ...

; died at Dover) * 20 May – Alexander Ross, poet (born

1699 Events January–March * January 5 – A violent Java earthquake damages the city of Batavia on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 28 people * January 20 – The Parliament of England (under Tory dominance) limits the size ...

)

The arts

* 22 May – English actress

Sarah Siddons Sarah Siddons (''née'' Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified". She was the elder sister of Joh ...

makes her Scottish debut in Edinburgh.

References

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1780s in Scotland