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List of events
Events from the year 1736 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
10 January – emigrants from the
Scottish Highlands arrive in North America on the Prince of Wales to establish the defensive town of
Darien, Georgia , originally called New Inverness, among them being
Lachlan McGillivray ,
Lachlan McIntosh and other members of the
Clan Mackintosh .
14 April –
Porteous Riots in Edinburgh.
John Porteous , captain of the city guard, orders his men to fire into the crowd, causing six deaths.
5 July – Captain Porteous found guilty of murder by the
High Court of Justiciary .
7 September – the Edinburgh mob drags Captain Porteous out of his cell in
Tolbooth prison and
lynches him, beats him and hangs him to death.
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney , becomes the first
Field Marshal of
Great Britain .
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh receives its
royal charter .
Grand Lodge of Scotland founded within
Freemasonry in Scotland .
Publication in Glasgow of John M'Ure's Glasghu facies: a view of the city of Glasgow; or, An account of its origin... , the first comprehensive history of the city.
Approximate date –
Scots Mining Company House built at
Leadhills .
Births
19 January –
James Watt , inventor (died
1819 in England )
[1]
11 May –
Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland , judge and politician (died
1795 )
15 August –
Alexander Runciman , painter of historical and mythological subjects (died
1785 )
27 October –
James Macpherson , poet, "translator" of Ossian (died
1796 )
8 November –
Lady Mary Hamilton , née Leslie, novelist (died 1821 in London)
18 November –
George Fordyce , physician (died 1802 in London)
William Ogilvie of Pittensear , land reformer (died
1819 )
Deaths
The arts
8 November – poet
Allan Ramsay establishes the first regular public theatre company in Scotland, at Carrubber's Close in Edinburgh.
[2]
See also
References
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