Events from the year 1777 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas; Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events 21 June – Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition begins publication in Edinburgh. 11 September – first minister ordained to United Presbyterian Church, Thurso; first church building opens this year. 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders) raised. Erskine Ferry established.
Births 22 January – Joseph Hume, army surgeon and radical politician (died 1855 in London) 3 February – John Cheyne, physician (died 1836 in England) 24 June – John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer (died 1856 in London) 26 July – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Presbyterian minister and educator (died 1855 in the United States) 27 July – Thomas Campbell, poet (died 1844 in France) 21 December – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, peer and Whig politician (born in London; died 1847)
Deaths 3 January – William Leslie, British Army captain (born 1751; killed at Battle of Princeton) 12 January – Hugh Mercer, surgeon and American Continental Army brigadier general (born 1726; died of injuries received at Battle of Princeton) 13 January – James Rait, Episcopalian Bishop of Brechin since 1742 (born 1689) 23 March – Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite (born 1685) 7 October – Simon Fraser of Balnain, British Army general (born 1729 in Scotland; killed at Battle of Bemis Heights)
Sport Fraserburgh Golf Club established. Wanlockhead curling club established.
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References