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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1726 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
Events
- 25 May – Britain's first circulating library[1] is opened in Edinburgh[2] by poet and bookseller Allan Ramsay.
- 23 June – professional Irish swordsman Andrew Bryan is defeated in a public duel in Edinburgh by 62-year-old Killiecrankie veteran Donald Bane "to the great joy of the Edinburgh citizenry".[3]
- General George Wade begins an 11-year program of road improvement and bridge building in Scotland.[4]
- A faculty of medicine is formally established at the University of Edinburgh, a predecessor of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. John Rutherford becomes Professor of Practice of Medicine.
Births
- 17 January – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777 of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton)
- 6 February – Patrick Russell, surgeon and herpetologist (died 1805 in London)
- 3 June – James Hutton, geologist (died 1797)
- 26 September – John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796)
- Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1809)
- Thomas Melvill, natural philosopher (died 1753)
Deaths
- 8 July – John Ker, spy (born 1673)
- August – Colonel John Stewart (of Livingstone), former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs
- Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, judge
The arts
- James Thomson begins publication of his poem cycle The Seasons with "Winter".
See also
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