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List of events
Events from the year 1776 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Publications
The arts
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David Herd's anthology Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs is published.
Births
- 23 February –
Heneage Horsley, Episcopal dean (died
1847)
- 9 March –
Archibald Bell, lawyer and writer (died
1854)
- 11 April –
Macvey Napier, lawyer and encyclopedia editor (died 1847)
- 15 April –
John Anstruther, nobleman, landowner and colonel (died
1833)
- 11 June –
James Gillespie Graham, architect (died
1855)
- 18 July –
John Struthers, poet (died
1853)
- 6 October –
James Duff, 4th Earl Fife, general in Spanish service (died
1857)
- 13 October –
John Gibb, civil engineering contractor (died
1850)
- 7 November –
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline, lawyer and Whig politician (died
1858)
- 20 November –
William Blackwood, publisher (died
1834)
- 30 November –
James Jardine, hydraulic engineer (died
1858)
Deaths
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