Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto
Events May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green. Sugar refinery at Greenock opened. Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.
Births 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa) 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811) 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle) 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France) 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)
Deaths 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704) 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)
The arts First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens". (sic.) Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.
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