1793 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1793 in Scotland.

Incumbents

2 January – Radical Thomas Muir of Huntershill arrested on a charge of sedition but released on bail.
20 July – Stornoway-born explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.^[1]
17 August – 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) raised at Fort William from members of Clan Cameron by Alan Cameron of Erracht.^[2]
24 August – Thomas Muir arrested at Portpatrick on his return from France.
31 August – Thomas Muir sentenced to penal transportation for 14 years.
Little Cumbrae Lighthouse built.
Piershill Barracks in Edinburgh and Queen's Barracks in Perth completed, originally for cavalry regiments.

6 March – William Dick, founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (died 1866)
3 April – Alexander Nicoll, Orientalist (died 1828 in Oxford)
1 June – Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymn-writer (died 1847 in Nice)
James Browne, man of letters (died 1841)

5 January – John Howie, biographer (born 1735)
2 February – William Aiton, botanist (born 1731)
20 March – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician (born 1705)
2 April or May – Colin Macfarquhar, bookseller and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1744 or 1745?)
11 June – William Robertson, historian and Principal of the University of Edinburgh (born 1721)
16 October – John Hunter, surgeon (born 1728)
James Small, inventor (born 1740)

Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 343–345.
Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm. 25 January 2016. dead. dmy-all.