1728 in Scotland
# 1728 in Scotland

Events from the year 1728 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
* Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

## Events

* 13 May – 3 men and 8 boys from Hirta are retrieved from Stac an Armin where they have been accidentally marooned for about 9 months, the longest recorded period anyone has spent on the sea stack.
* 31 May – The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).
* Iron smelting at Invergarry begins.
* Inverness – Fort William road through the Great Glen completed.
* First larch trees in Scotland planted at Dunkeld.
* First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.

## Births

* 13 February – John Hunter, surgeon (died 1793)
* 16 April – Joseph Black, physicist and chemist (born in France; died 1799)
* 3 July – Robert Adam, architect (died 1792)

## Deaths

* 3 April – James Anderson, lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
