1808 in Scotland
 1808 in Scotland |
| Years |
| 1806 | 1807 | 1808 | 1809 | 1810 |
Events from 1808 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 2 March - Inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held in Edinburgh under the presidency of Prof. Robert Jameson.[1][2]
- 21 May - Thomas Telford's Tongland bridge is fully completed.
- 27 May - The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland to be authorised by Act of Parliament.[3]
- 7 June - First meeting at the Bogside Racecourse, Irvine.[4]
- October - Thomas Telford's Dunkeld-Birnam bridge is opened to road traffic.[5]
- John Rennie's new Musselburgh Bridge (over the Esk) is completed.[6]
- Court of Session Act reforms the Court of Session.
- Broadford flax mill is established in Aberdeen, the earliest iron-framed textile mill in Scotland.[7]
- William Blackwood begins publication of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, edited by David Brewster.
- Travel writer Sir John Carr publishes Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807.
Births
- 22 January - James Fergusson, architectural historian (died 1886 in London)
- 9 May - John Scott Russell, shipbuilder (died 1882 on the Isle of Wight)
- 11 June - James Ballantine, painter (died 1877)
- 16 June - James Frederick Ferrier, metaphysical and epistemological philosopher (died 1864)
- 19 August - James Nasmyth, mechanical engineer (died 1890 in England)
- 24 August - William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (died 1884)
- c. 7 or 8 September - William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe), Gaelic poet (died 1870)[8]
- 15 September - John Hutton Balfour, botanist (died 1884)
- 21 September - Evan MacColl, poet writing in Gaelic and English (died 1898 in Canada)
- 19 December - Horatius Bonar, Free Church minister and hymnodist (died 1889)
- James Gall, evangelical minister, astronomer and cartographer (died 1895)
- David Moore, born Muir, botanist (died 1879 in Ireland)
- David Rhind, architect (died 1883)
- James Aitken Wylie, Free Church minister and religious historian (died 1890)
Deaths
- 20 January - Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho (born 1749)
- 28 January - James Finlayson, minister of the Church of Scotland (born 1758)
- 13 February - William Fullarton, British Army officer, agriculturalist and colonial governor (born 1754; died in London)
- 19 June - Alexander Dalrymple, hydrographer (born 1737)
- 2 July - Robert Arnot, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (born 1744)
- 21 August - John Adamson, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (born 1742)
- 23 August - Robert Small, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, mathematician and astronomer (born 1732)
- 5 September - John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (born 1722)
- 20 September - John Elliot, Royal Navy officer (born 1732)
- 24 October - Francis Wemyss-Charteris, landowner (born 1723)
The Arts
- Walter Scott's poem Marmion is published.
See also
References
- ↑ "Wernerian Natural History Society". Scholarly Societies Project. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ↑ Sweet, Jessie M. (1967). "The Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh". Freiberger Forschungshefte, Reihe C 223: 205–218.
- ↑ Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways: a short history of their origin and development, 1801-1844. London: Locomotive Publishing Co.
- ↑ "Bogside Racecourse". greyhoundderby.com. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
- ↑ "Telford's Bridge". Dunkeld & Birnam Tourist Association. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
- ↑ "Musselburgh, New Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
- ↑ "Aberdeen, Maberly Street, Broadford Works". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. July 2008. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
- ↑ Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
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