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List of events
Events from the year 1766 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 18 January –
Robert Forsyth, topographical writer (died
1845)
- March –
Helen Hyslop, domestic servant, a possible mistress and muse of Robert Burns (died
1852)
- 10 April –
John Leslie, mathematician and physicist, researcher into radiant heat (died
1832)
- 6 July –
Alexander Wilson, ornithologist (died
1813 in the United States)
- 21 July –
Thomas Charles Hope, physician and chemist, discoverer of strontium (died
1844)
- 16 August –
Carolina Nairne, songwriter (died
1845)
- 29 December –
Charles Macintosh, chemist, inventor of a waterproof fabric (died
1843)
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Charles Baird, mechanical engineer (died 1843 in Russia)
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May Cameron, domestic servant, a mistress of Robert Burns
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Jenny Clow ("Clarinda"), domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns (died
1792)
Deaths
See also
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