1719 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George I
• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

  Events

• March – a Jacobite invasion force sets out from Cádiz in Spain but is dispersed by storms and only two ships reach Scotland.
• 10 May – Capture of Eilean Donan Castle: A British naval force capture Eilean Donan from occupying Spanish troops.
• 10 June – Battle of Glen Shiel: British Government troops defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces.
• 1 September – Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska at Montefiascone in Italy.
• Earliest known Newcomen atmospheric engines in Scotland at Stevenston and at Elphinstone, East Lothian.
• Earliest known record of Belhaven Brewery near Dunbar.

  Births

• 5 May – Andrew Meikle, mechanical engineer and inventor
• 25 December – George Campbell, Enlightenment philosopher, Presbyterian minister, theologian and professor of divinity
• William Rose, schoolmaster and classical scholar

  Deaths

• 29 May – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, judge
• 24 June – James Sutherland, botanist

  The arts

• Allan Ramsay publishes Content and a new volume of Scots Songs.