1768 in Scotland

Events from the year 1768 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
 * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming

Events

 * 10 June – construction of Forth and Clyde Canal begins (Act 8 March).
 * 10 December – first volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica begin publication in Edinburgh.
 * Bridge over River Deveron between Banff and Macduff swept away in flood.
 * David Dale begins his own business importing linen yarn from the Dutch Republic to Glasgow.
 * Duchal House extended.
 * Alloa Waggonway open.

Births

 * 2 May – Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist and statistician (died 1838 in London)
 * 3 May – Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (died 1838)
 * 9 May – James Thomson, Presbyterian minister and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1855 in London)
 * 11 May – David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)
 * 14 July – James Haldane, soldier and evangelist (died 1851)
 * 29 August (bapt.) – William Erskine, Lord Kinneder, scholar and songwriter (died 1822)
 * 23 September – William Wallace, mathematician (died 1843)
 * 6 November – James Hay Beattie, poet (died 1790)
 * 10 November – Thomas Thomson, advocate, antiquarian and archivist (died 1852)

Deaths

 * 15 June – James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710)
 * 1 October – Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687)
 * 12 October – James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (born 1702)