• Source: 1739 in Scotland

Events from the year 1739 in Scotland.




Incumbents



Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant




= Law officers

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Lord Advocate – Charles Erskine
Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant of Prestongrange




= Judiciary

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Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton




Events


January (dated 9 February) – the original version of The Scots Magazine begins publication in Edinburgh.
Suspended ministers of the "Associate Presbytery" (First Secession) led by Ebenezer Erskine are summoned to appear before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, but fail to attend because they do not acknowledge its authority.
The six Independent Highland Companies known as the Black Watch are augmented to ten and formed into the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot (the "Earl of Crawford's Highlanders"), a regular British Army regiment of the line. Its first colonel is John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford (who on 22 July has been wounded at the Battle of Grocka).
The potato is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, at Kilsyth.




Births


4 February – John Robison, physicist, inventor, natural philosopher and conspiracy theorist (died 1805)
21 August – Archibald Campbell, British Army officer, colonial governor, landowner and politician (died 1791 in London)
31 October – James Craig, architect (died 1795)
James Anderson of Hermiston, agriculturalist (died 1808)
Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville, judge (died 1792)
Udney Hay, American revolutionary and politician (died 1806 in the United States)




Deaths


November – William Cockburn, physician (born 1669; died in London)




See also



Timeline of Scottish history




References

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• Anne Lennox
• Konstantinus II dari Skotlandia
• Pemberontakan Jacobite 1745
• Sejarah olahraga
• Thomas Secker
• Daftar perang
• Kesatria Haikal
• Lord Hardwicke
• Frankfurt am Main
• Pembakaran terkendali
• 1739 in Scotland
• 1739
• Scotland
• James Anderson
• List of peers 1730–1739
• Archibald Campbell (British Army officer, born 1739)
• John Cook (professor, born 1739)
• List of grand master masons of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
• James Craig
• History of Scotland