1828 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1828 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 March - An English gang make off with £28,350 after holding up the Glasgow branch of the Greenock Bank.[1]
- 15 June - 28 people are killed when the north gallery of the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy, collapses during a sermon by popular preacher Edward Irving.[1]
- 8 August - The Ballochney Railway (near Airdrie, horse worked) is completed throughout.[2]
- 17–24 December - Burke and Hare murders trial in Edinburgh:[3] William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims (up to 31 October) to provide bodies for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox; his accomplice William Hare is released having turned King's evidence.
- Inhabitants of the island of Muck emigrate to Nova Scotia.[4]
- St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, is completed[5] to the design of William Henry Playfair.
- Caird & Company established by John Caird in Greenock as marine engineers.
- James Beaumont Neilson patents the hot blast process for ironmaking.[6]
- A steam road coach constructed by James and George Naysmith runs between Leith and Queensferry.[5]
Births
- 4 April - Mrs. Oliphant, born Margaret Wilson, novelist and historical writer (died 1897 in London)
- 16 August - John Waddell, railway contractor (died 1888)
- 5 October - Alexander Gunn, grocery wholesaler (died 1907 in Canada)
- 1 November - Balfour Stewart, physicist (died 1887 in Ireland)
- 13 December - Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand, judge (died 1904)
- Alexander Crum, textile printer and Liberal politician (died 1893)
- Robert Doull, merchant and politician (died 1906 in Canada)
Deaths
- 29 February - John Ainslie, cartographer (born 1745)
- 11 June - Dugald Stewart, Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
- 5 July - Andrew Duncan, physician (born 1744)
- 20 December - Archibald Fletcher, reforming lawyer (born 1746)
- Robert Blair, astronomer (born 1748)
- William Drummond of Logiealmond, diplomat and philosopher (born c.1770)
The Arts
- The Maitland Club is founded in Glasgow to edit and publish early Scottish texts.[7]
- The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell is published.[8]
- Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series) is published.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
- ↑ Hill, David Octavius; Buchanan, George (1832). Views of the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. Also an Account of That and Other Railways in Lanarkshire. Edinburgh.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2008). "Muck". The Scottish Islands (Rev. ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate. p. 132. ISBN 9781847672773. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
- ↑ Gale, W.K.V. (1981). Ironmaking. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. p. 22. ISBN 0-85263-546-X.
- ↑ History of the Maitland Club. Maitland Club 80. 1859.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.