1802 in Scotland
1802 in Scotland |
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Events from 1802 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 2 October - First Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
- 10 October - The reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.
- November - The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".[1]
- The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.[2]
- John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
- John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
- Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.
Births
- 1 April - William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
- 20 May - David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
- 10 July - Robert Chambers, author and publisher (died 1871)
- 16 July - Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
- 20 August - Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
- 24 August (bapt.) - John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
- 28 August - Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
- 19 September - Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
- 10 October - Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
- Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)
Deaths
- 21 January - John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
- 26 February - Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
- Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)
The Arts
- 29 January - Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.[3]
- Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication anonymously in Kelso.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "History". The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- ↑ Shaw, A. Batty (July 1968). "The oldest medical societies in Great Britain". Medical History 12 (3): 232–244. doi:10.1017/s0025727300013272. PMC 1033825. PMID 4875610.
- ↑ Mackay, James (2004). Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns. Darvel: Alloway Publishing. p. 688. ISBN 0-907526-85-3.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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