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List of events
Events from the year 1768 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 2 May –
Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist and statistician (died 1838 in London)
- 3 May –
Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (died
1838)
- 9 May –
James Thomson, Presbyterian minister and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1855 in London)
- 11 May –
David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died
1843)
- 14 July –
James Haldane, soldier and evangelist (died
1851)
- 29 August (bapt.) –
William Erskine, Lord Kinneder, scholar and songwriter (died
1822)
- 23 September –
William Wallace, mathematician (died
1843)
- 6 November –
James Hay Beattie, poet (died
1790)
- 10 November –
Thomas Thomson, advocate, antiquarian and archivist (died
1852)
Deaths
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