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List of events
Events from the year 1780 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 26 February –
Alexander Allan, shipowner (died
1854)
- 17 March –
Thomas Chalmers, Free Church leader (died
1847)
- 3 April –
Walter Newall, architect and civil engineer (died
1863)
- 10 October –
John Abercrombie, physician and philosopher (died
1844)
- 16 November –
Robert Archibald Smith, composer (died
1829)
- 5 December –
Patrick Sellar, lawyer,
factor and sheep farmer instrumental in the
Highland Clearances (died
1851)
- 26 December –
Mary Somerville, née Fairfax, mathematician (died 1872 in Naples)
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David Buchan, naval officer and Arctic explorer (lost at sea 1838)
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Colquhoun Grant, British Army officer (died 1829 in Aachen)
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William Laird, shipbuilder (died 1841 in Birkenhead)
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Robert Pinkerton, Bible missionary (died 1859 in Reigate)
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Andrew Wilson, landscape painter (died
1848)
Deaths
Sport
See also
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