1734 in Scotland
Events from the year 1734 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch George II
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
Events
- 8 April – 6 August: Siege of Gaeta in the Kingdom of Naples at which Charles Edward Stuart is present, his only military experience prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Births
- 7 May – James Byres, architect and antiquary
- 29 September – William Julius Mickle, poet
- 7 October – Ralph Abercromby, British Army general and politician
- 15 December – John Maclaurin, judge and poet
- Robert Aitken, printer and publisher in Philadelphia, first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S.
Deaths
- 21 March – Robert Wodrow, historian
- May – Alexander McGill, architect
- 28 December – Rob Roy MacGregor, clan chief
