title: 1728 in Scotland
text: # 1728 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1728 in Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
  
  ### Law officers
  
  * Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
  * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
  * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
  
  ## Events
  
  * 13 May – 3 men and 8 boys from Hirta are retrieved from Stac an Armin where they have been accidentally marooned for about 9 months, the longest recorded period anyone has spent on the sea stack.
  * 31 May – The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).
  * Iron smelting at Invergarry begins.
  * Inverness – Fort William road through the Great Glen completed.
  * First larch trees in Scotland planted at Dunkeld.
  * First publication of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie's The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, written about 1575 in the Scots language.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 13 February – John Hunter, surgeon (died 1793)
  * 16 April – Joseph Black, physicist and chemist (born in France; died 1799)
  * 3 July – Robert Adam, architect (died 1792)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 3 April – James Anderson, lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
  