1755 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1755 in Scotland.
Incumbents
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume; then Andrew Pringle of Alemore
= Judiciary =
Events
- June – Joseph Black's discovery of carbon dioxide and magnesium is communicated in a paper to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh."Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and Some Other Alcaline Substances", published 1756.
- 1 November – Lisbon earthquake felt in Scotland.
- Demographic history of Scotland: First reliable national census conducted by Rev. Alexander Webster, showing the country's population as 1,265,380. Four towns have populations of over 10,000, with Edinburgh the largest with 57,000 inhabitants.{{cite web|title=Webster’s Account of the Population of Scotland in 1755|url=http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/census-records/webster%E2%80%99s-census-of-1755|publisher=National Records of Scotland|access-date=2016-02-18}}
- Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.{{cite web|url=http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=84461|title=Tynet, St Ninian's Church|work=ScotlandsPlaces|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|access-date=2015-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222424/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=84461|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
- Ironworks established at Furnace, Argyll.
- Work on William Roy's survey of Scotland concludes.{{cite journal|year=1785|last=Roy|first=William|title=An Account of the Measurement of a Base on Hounslow-Heath|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=75|pages=385–480|url=https://archive.org/details/philtrans01222507|doi=10.1098/rstl.1785.0024|doi-access=free}} Introduction.
Births
- 18 January – James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton (died 1769)
- 21 February – Anne Grant, poet (died 1838)
- 25 June – Archibald Gracie merchant and shipowner (died 1829 in the United States)
- August 5 – James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (died 1794)
- 17 August – William Paterson, soldier, colonial governor in Australia, explorer and botanist (died 1810 at sea)
- 4 September – Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, née O'Brien (died 1831)
- October – George Galloway, poet and playwright
- November – John Dunlop, merchant and songwriter (died 1820)
Deaths
- 5 June – John Sinclair, Lord Murkle, judge
- 4 October – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer (born 1676)
The arts
- 25 February – 11-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=The Scots Independent|access-date=2016-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm|archive-date=25 January 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
- David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.
See also
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