1745 in Scotland

Events from the year 1745 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenay in the Low Countries: Although this is a decisive French victory, the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot distinguishes itself in its first battle.
23 July – Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides from the Du Teillay.
16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
September – Jacobite rising: Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, is commissioned to raise 18 new Independent Highland Companies from clans loyal to the government.
11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.
16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
17 September – Jacobite rising: In Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.
21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.
Autumn – Meikleour Beech Hedges planted.
13–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites Carlisle (November 1745)|besiege and capture] Carlisle, across the English border.
December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach as far south in England as Derby causing panic in London.
6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.
18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish, the last action between two military forces on English soil.
23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
Prospectus issued for "The Company for Improving the Linen Manufactury in Scotland", which becomes the British Linen Bank.

Births

12 May – William Creech, bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh
24 May – Thomas Potter, industrialist, founder of Denmark's first iron foundry
23 June – James Graham, quack doctor
2 July – Robert Calder, admiral
26 July – Henry Mackenzie, novelist, writer, poet and lawyer
William Cruikshank, anatomist and chemist
Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter
Approximate date – Sydney Parkinson, botanical illustrator

Deaths

Spring – William Meston, poet
May – Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange, abductee