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List of events
Events from the year 1782 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
23 January – local
Laird George Ludovic Houston invites purchase of marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of
Johnstone , to provide employment for his
thread and
cotton mills , and one of the latter is erected by Corse, Burns & Co.
1 July –
Act of Proscription 1746 (including
Dress Act ) repealed, permitting wearing of Highland dress and arms.
Muslin first woven in Scotland by James Monteith at
Anderston .
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Births
2 February –
James Chalmers , printer, publisher and bookseller, claimed inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (died
1853 )
17 March –
Andrew Halliday , physician, reformer and writer (died
1839 )
16 April –
William Jerdan , journalist (died 1869 in London)
15 August –
James Smith of Jordanhill , merchant, antiquarian and architect (died
1867 )
7 September –
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier , novelist (died
1854 )
7 October –
Charles Maclaren , editor and geologist (died
1866 )
Grace Kennedy , writer of religious novels (died
1825 )
Deaths
The arts
Sport
References
^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland . Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 80.
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