1720 in Scotland

Events from the year 1720 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, then Robert Dundas
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, then Walter Stewart

Judiciary

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

Events

 * A great storm cuts Rattray, Aberdeenshire, off from the open sea, creating the Loch of Strathbeg.
 * The Caledonian Mercury newspaper begins publication in Edinburgh.
 * Food riots in east coast towns from January to March.

Births

 * 31 December – Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1788, in Rome)

Deaths

 * 20 April – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1637)
 * David Gregory, physician and inventor (born 1625)