1728 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1728 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
= Judiciary =
Events
- 13 May – 3 men and 8 boys from Hirta are retrieved from Stac an Armin where they have been accidentally marooned for about 9 months, the longest recorded period anyone has spent on the sea stack.
- 31 May – The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).{{cite web|title=The history of payments in the UK|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7839823.stm|work=BBC News|date=2009-02-16|access-date=2016-02-25}}
- Iron smelting at Invergarry begins.{{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|title=Chronology of Scottish History|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|location=New Lanark|year=2002|isbn=1-85534-380-0}}
- Inverness – Fort William road through the Great Glen completed.
- First larch trees in Scotland planted at Dunkeld.
- First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.
Births
- 13 February – John Hunter, surgeon (died 1793)
- 16 April – Joseph Black, physicist and chemist (born in France; died 1799)
- 3 July – Robert Adam, architect (died 1792)
Deaths
- 3 April – James Anderson, lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
See also
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References
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