1813 in Scotland
Events from 1813 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 April - Whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.[1]
- 15 April - Foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.[2]
- October - Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.[3]
- Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.
- Robert Owen obtains control of the cotton spinning mills at New Lanark and publishes A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character.
Births
- 30 January - George Gilfillan, writer and poet (died 1878)
- 18 March
- 19 March - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (died 1873 in Africa)
- 13 April - Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician (died 1844)
- 14 May (bapt.) - John Hosack, lawyer and historian (died 1887 in London)
- 17 May? - Eliza Rennie, author
- 18 May - Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge (died 1896)
- 21 May - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (died 1843)
- 27 May - William McNaught, steam engineer (died 1881)
- 21 June - William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet (died 1865)
- 28 July - James Newlands, municipal engineer (died 1871 in Liverpool)
- 10 August - Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer (died 1872 in London)
- 6 September - Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist (died 1889 in London)
- 13 September - Daniel MacMillan, publisher (died 1857)
- 30 September - John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician (died 1893 in London)
- November - John Stuart, genealogist (died 1877)
- 13 December
- 18 December - John Edgar Gregan, architect (died 1855 in Manchester)
- John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong (died 1907)
- Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor (died 1895 in Hastings)
- Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (died 1876)
- Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (died 1884)
- John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian (died 1900)
- William Logan, temperance campaigner (died 1879)
- Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada (died 1854)
- Daniel M'Naghten, assassin (died 1865 in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum)
- George Tosh, metallurgist (died 1900 in Scunthorpe)
Deaths
- 5 January - Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian (born 1747)
- 15 February - Francis Home, physician (born 1719)
- 15 March - Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet (born 1759)
- 15 April - Alexander Murray, linguist (born 1775)
- 22 June - Allan Burns, surgeon (born 1781)
- 8 July - William Craig, Lord Craig, judge (born 1745)
- 23 August - Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America (born 1766)
- 11 October - Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator (born 1755)
- 28 October - William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter (born 1753?)
The Arts
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