Английская Википедия:1785 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1785 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events
- 7 March – geologist James Hutton proposes the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[1][2]
- Late September – James Boswell’s The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides is published.[3]
- 5 October – flight by Florentine aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi in a gas balloon from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, across the Firth of Forth to Ceres, Fife (32 mi (51.5 km) in 1.5 hrs).[4]
- 23 November – Lunardi flies from St Andrew's Square, Glasgow, to Hawick.[5]
Births
- 18 May – John Wilson, writer (died 1854)
- 18 November – David Wilkie, painter (died at sea 1841)
Deaths
- 23 January – Matthew Stewart, mathematician (born 1717)
- 4 October – Alexander Runciman, painter (born 1736)
- 23 October – William Cochran, painter (born 1738)
The arts
- 22 May – Robert Burns' first child, Elizabeth ("Dear-bought Bess"), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton[6] and his poems "To a Mouse" and "Halloween" are written.
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