1775 in Scotland
Events from the year 1775 in Scotland.
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Incumbents
    
    Law officers
    
Events
    
- Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act 1775 provides for gradual removal of conditions of servitude on coal miners.[1]
 - The power of the burgh of Stirling to manage its own affairs is suspended when the Black Bond comes to light.
 - Village of Tomintoul laid out by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon.
 - John Howie's Biographia Scoticana is published.
 - Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is published.
 
Births
    
- 12 March – Henry Eckford, shipbuilder in New York (died 1832 in Constantinople)
 - 30 April – George Kinloch, radical politician (died 1833 in London)
 - 8 September – John Leyden, orientalist (died 1811 in Java)
 - 9 October – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary (killed in duel 1822)
 - 26 October – Alexander Thom, military surgeon, judge and politician (died 1858 in Canada)
 - 13 November – John Burns, surgeon (drowned 1850)
 - 14 December – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (died 1860 in London)
 
Deaths
    
- 17 June – John Pitcairn, major in the marines (born 1722; killed in Battle of Bunker Hill)
 - 18 November – Robert Forbes, Episcopal Bishop of Ross and Caithness (born 1708)
 - 28 December – John Campbell, author (born 1708)
 
See also
    
    
References
    
- Russell, Albert (2012). "Laws relating to Coalworkers in Scotland - 1775 Act". Hood Family and Coal Mining. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
 
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