1759 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1759 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1759 in Scotland.

Incumbents

13 September – Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Seven Years' War): British forces, including the 78th Fraser Highlanders, defeat those of the French to take Quebec City.^[1]
September–October – Benjamin Franklin visits Scotland.
87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders) raised at Perth and sent to Germany.
Dumfries House, designed by Robert Adam, completed.
David Erskine establishes his own legal practice in Edinburgh, origins of the partnership Dundas & Wilson.
The Carron Company establishes its ironworks at Falkirk.

25 January – Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland (died 1796)^[2]
5 March – John Jamieson, Secession minister and lexicographer (died 1838)
26 March – John Mayne, printer, journalist and poet (died 1836 in London)
29 March – Alexander Chalmers, biographer and editor (died 1834 in London)
4 May (baptism) – Isabella Kelly, novelist and poet (died 1857 in London)
7 May – John Beugo, engraver (died 1841)
22 June – John Gilchrist, Indologist and surgeon (died 1841 in Paris)
22 September – William Playfair, political economist (died 1823 in London)
Aeneas Chisholm, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District (died 1818)
Approximate date – Anne Rankine, innkeeper and possible muse of Robert Burns (died 1843)

William Robertson – The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James
Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures

^ Chamier, George (2009). When it Happened in Scotland. London: Constable. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-84901-006-1.
^ "Robert Burns (1759-1796)". National Records of Scotland. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2023.