Events from the year 1743 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale
Law officers Lord Advocate – Robert Craigie Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, the younger
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton
Events 17 May – approximately 100 men of the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot (the 'Black Watch') desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the Tower of London. 27 June (16 June O.S.) – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria – British forces, including the Royal Scots Greys, the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat the French; King George II of Great Britain (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle. 4 October – Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay succeeds his brother as 3rd Duke of Argyll. Robert Foulis becomes printer to the University of Glasgow. Probable date – the last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie.
Births 18 June – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, born Marquess of Huntly, clan chief (died 1827 in England) William Saunders, physician, first President of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (died 1817 in England)
Deaths 6 May – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Catholic Jacobite scholar (born 1686; died in France) 4 October – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, soldier (born 1678 in England; died in England)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References