1743 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Craigie
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, the younger

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

  Events

• 17 May – approximately 100 men of the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the Tower of London.
• 27 June – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria - British forces, including the Royal Scots Greys, the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat the French; King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
• 4 October – Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay succeeds his brother as 3rd Duke of Argyll.
• Robert Foulis becomes printer to the University of Glasgow.
• Probable date – the last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie.

  Births

• 18 June – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, born Marquess of Huntly, clan chief
• William Saunders, physician, first President of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London

  Deaths

• 6 May – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Catholic Jacobite scholar
• 4 October – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, soldier