1799 in Scotland
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Events from 1799 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- June - The last militia regiments in the Highland Fencible Corps are raised at about this time, but most are disbanded this year.[1]
- 3 June - Publication of The First (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland concludes.[2]
- 13 June - Colliers (Scotland) Act ("An Act to explain and amend the Laws relative to Colliers in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland") frees coal miners from bondage to their employers, the last vestige of serfdom in Scotland.[3]
- Glasgow Town Council and private benefactors contribute to purchasing grain to relieve the poor at a time of high food prices.[4]
- The Roman Catholic seminary for the Vicariate Apostolic of the Lowland District is transferred from Scalan to Aquhorthies College by George Hay, the Vicar Apostolic.
- Inverbervie Old Bridge (over the Bervie Water), designed by James Burn, is completed.[5]
- George Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos (1579) is translated by Robert Macfarlan as A Dialogue Concerning The Rights of the Crown in Scotland.
- William Wallace becomes the first to publish the concept of the Simson line in mathematics.[6]
Births
- 6 February - George Arnott Walker-Arnott, botanist (died 1868)
- 13 February - Robert Willis, physician (died 1878 in London)
- 17 February - John Baird, evangelical minister (died 1861)
- 8 June - John Wilson, promoter of British Israelism (died 1870 in England)
- 25 June - David Douglas, botanist (died 1834 in Hawaii)
- 8 September - James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (died 1862)
- 5 November - Robert Carruthers, writer (died 1878)
- 18 December - Charles Macfarlane, travel writer and novelist (died 1858 in London)
- 21 December - David Don, botanist (died 1841 in London)
- Undated - John Cunningham, architect (died 1873)
- Approximate date - William Simson, painter (died 1847 in London)
Deaths
- 5 January - John Swinton, Lord Swinton, judge (born 1723)
- 19 January - Peter Williamson ("Indian Peter"), tavern keeper, printer, postmaster, inventor, showman and sometime slave in America (born 1730)
- 26 January
- Gabriel Christie, general and settler in Montreal (born 1722)
- Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (born 1765; died in Paris)
- 26 May - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (born 1714)
- 30 May - Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, hanging judge (born 1722)
- 1 June - James Tassie, engraver (born 1735)
- 14 June - Sir Patrick Warrender, 3rd Baronet, of Lochend, army officer and politician (born 1739)
- 15 August - Duncan Davidson, merchant and politician (born 1733)
- 6 December - Joseph Black, physician and chemist (born 1728)
- William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, tobacco merchant
- Lachlan McGillivray, fur trader and planter in the Province of Georgia (born 1718/19)
See also
References
- ↑ Browne, James (1854). A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans 4 (New ed.). Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co.
- ↑ Withers, Charles W. J. "Scotland Accounted For: An Introduction To The 'Old' (1791-1799) And The New (1834-1845) Statistical Accounts Of Scotland". Edinburgh: EDINA. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ↑ "Chapter XLIV: War with France". The History of Glasgow, Volume 3. Electric Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ↑ "Inverbervie, Bervie Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ↑ Bogomolny, Alexander. "Simson Line: What is it?". Cut The Knot: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
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