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)