Английская Википедия:1758 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1758 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore
Judiciary
Events
- Physician Francis Home makes the first attempt to deliver a measles vaccine.
Births
- 17 February – John Pinkerton, antiquarian and cartographer (died 1826)
- 21 March – Patrick Beatson, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec (died 1800 in Canada)
- 23 April – Alexander Cochrane, admiral (died 1832 in France)
- 9 September – Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
- 31 October – Jean Glover, poet and singer (died 1801 in Ireland)
- Alexander Mackenzie Fraser, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general (died 1809 in the Netherlands)
Deaths
- 7 January – Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
- 17 January – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (born 1724)
- 18 July – Duncan Campbell, nobleman and British Army officer (died of wounds received at Battle of Carillon)
- 14 October – James Francis Edward Keith, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal (born 1696; killed at Battle of Hochkirch)
- 27 October (bur.) – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707; died in London)
- 12 November – John Cockburn, politician
See also
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