1776 in Scotland
# 1776 in Scotland

Events from the year 1776 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
* Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming

## Events

* 27 February – American Revolution: At the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, Scottish American Loyalists are defeated by North Carolina Patriots. Capt. Allan MacDonald (husband of Flora) is among those taken prisoner.
* 4 July – American Revolution: United States Declaration of Independence. Fife-born James Wilson and Gifford-born Rev. John Witherspoon are among the signatories.
* Physician Andrew Duncan proposes establishment of the institution that becomes the Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh.
* New Aray Bridge on Inveraray Castle estate, designed by Robert Mylne, is completed.
* Probable – Dunmore Pineapple constructed.

## Publications

* 9 March – Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is published in London.
* David Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland are published.

## The arts

* 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

* 2 June – Robert Foulis, printer, publisher and art critic (born 1707)
* 25 August – David Hume, philosopher (born 1711)
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