1718 in Scotland

Events from the year 1718 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Damask linen industry established at Dunfermline by James Blake{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=John M.|year=2000|title=Around Dunfermline|edition=2nd|publisher=J.M Pearson|location=Leven|page=10|isbn=1-90065-103-3}} and at Drumsheugh.
Marrow Controversy, an ecclesiastical dispute.{{cite web|author=Schaff, Philip (1819–1893)|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc07.m.v.html|title=New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|volume=8|access-date=2007-09-03}}
Old Calton Burial Ground established on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, by the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton.
Edinburgh Evening Courant newspaper launched.
First passage to America of a ship built on the Clyde, and belonging to Glasgow.
Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany at the University of Glasgow established.

18 February – Robert Henry, historian (died 1790)Nimmo, William (1880). [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/stirlingshire/chap25.htm The History of Stirlingshire], revised by W. M. Stirling and R. Gillespie.
7 April – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
29 April – Robert Sandeman, theologian (died 1771 in Danbury, Connecticut)
23 May – William Hunter, anatomist and obstetrician (died 1783 in London)

1 May – Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet, of Minto, judge, politician and writer (born c. 1650)