1724 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1724 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning
= Judiciary =
Events
- c. March–November – Galloway "Levellers" dykebreaking in opposition to enclosures.{{cite journal|last=Leopold|first=John|title=The Levellers Revolt in Galloway in 1724|journal=Journal of the Scottish Labour History Society|volume=14|year=1980|pages=4–29}}
- 24 December – General George Wade is appointed Commander in Chief in Scotland after his report on the need for military roads in the country.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|work=The Scots Independent|access-date=2016-02-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|archive-date=26 January 2016|url-status=dead}}
- Burcefield and Gardie Houses built.
Births
- 20 March – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Gaelic poet (died 1812)
- 3 June – John Gregory, physician and moralist (died 1773)
- 10 July – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (died 1758 in England)
Deaths
- 14 November – John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, soldier and politician (born 1660 in England)
The arts
- Allan Ramsay publishes The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems and co-writes and edits the first volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English.
See also
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References
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