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List of events
Events from the year 1740 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 28 March (bapt.) –
James Small, inventor (died
1793)
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15 July –
Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (died
1819)
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29 October –
James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (died
1795)
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James Cannon, mathematician and a principal draftsman of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (died in
1782 in the United States)
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William Davidson, settler, lumberman, shipbuilder and politician in New Brunswick (died
1790 in Canada)
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William Smellie, master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist (died 1795)
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Christopher Wyvill, cleric, landowner and political reformer in England (died
1822)
Deaths
The arts
See also
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