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| 1761 |
| | | Scottish chemist and physicist Joseph Black observes the latent heat in melting ice | |
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| 1764 |
| | | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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| 1767 |
| | | Work begins on Edinburgh's New Town, to the design of the 23-year-old architect James Craig | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Samuel Johnson and James Boswell undertake a journey together to the western islands of Scotland | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Scottish economist Adam Smith analyzes the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Scottish engineer James Watt devises the governor, the first example of industrial automation | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
|  | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail)
National Gallery of Scotland
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| 1792 |
| | | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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