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List of events
Events from the year 1759 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
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25 January –
Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland (died
1796)
[2]
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5 March –
John Jamieson, Secession minister and lexicographer (died
1838)
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26 March –
John Mayne, printer, journalist and poet (died 1836 in London)
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29 March –
Alexander Chalmers, biographer and editor (died 1834 in London)
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4 May (baptism) –
Isabella Kelly, novelist and poet (died 1857 in London)
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7 May –
John Beugo, engraver (died
1841)
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22 June –
John Gilchrist, Indologist and surgeon (died 1841 in Paris)
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22 September –
William Playfair, political economist (died 1823 in London)
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Aeneas Chisholm, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District (died
1818)
- Approximate date –
Anne Rankine, innkeeper and possible muse of Robert Burns (died
1843)
Deaths
Publications
See also
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