1814 in Scotland
Events from 1814 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 7 July - Walter Scott's Waverley, his first prose fiction and one of the first significant historical novels in English, set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, selling out in two days.[1]
- October - Thomas Telford's Lovat Bridge, the first over the River Beauly, is opened.
- November - Thomas Telford's cast iron Craigellachie Bridge over the River Spey is opened.
- Thomas Telford's Craighouse pier on Jura is constructed.
- Building of the industrial village of Friockheim in Angus is begun.
- Gartnavel Royal Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum.[2]
- Glasgow Medical Society is established.[3]
- Chapel of St Mary's, designed by James Gillespie Graham, opened in Edinburgh, the origin of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic).
- Mary Brunton's novel Discipline, set in the Higlands, is published.
Births
- 7 January - Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet (died 1837)
- 31 January - Andrew Ramsay, geologist (died 1891)
- 27 February - Robert Turnbull Macpherson, artist and photographer working in Rome (died 1872)
- 20 March - John Goodsir, pathologist (died 1867)
- 28 March - John Thomas Rochead, architect (died 1878)
- 10 April - Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, judge and politician (died 1879)
- 7 May - George Heriot Swanston, map engraver
- 21 June - Samuel Halkett, librarian (died 1871)
- 8 July - Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, banker, Liberal politician and evangelical clergyman (died 1887)
- 27 September - John Burnet, architect (died 1901)
- 20 December - William McGill, physician and Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) (died 1883 in Canada)
Deaths
See also
References