1838 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1838 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Queen Victoria (crowned 28 June)
Events
- Winter 1837/38 - The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is discovered.
- January - Leaders of the Glasgow cotton spinners' strike are sentenced to penal transportation (but cleared of murder).[1]
- 2 March - Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.[2]
- 4–22 April - Leith-built paddle steamer Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing from Cork to New York in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.[3]
- 21 May
- Chartist meeting on Glasgow Green at which the People's Charter is launched.[4]
- Elizabeth Jeffrey of Carluke is hanged in Glasgow for poisoning a neighbour and a lodger.[5]
- 4 July - Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway authorised.[6]
- 25 July - Caledonian Curling Club founded in Edinburgh.
- 4 August - The Court Journal prints a rumour that Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is going to host a great jousting tournament at his castle in Scotland. A few weeks later he confirms this.[7]
- 16 August - Debtors (Scotland) Act 1838 passed.
- 7 September - Dundee paddle steamer Forfarshire (1834), homeward bound from Hull, is wrecked on the Farne Islands off the north east coast of England with the loss of more than 40 people; Grace Darling rescues nine survivors.[8]
- Jenners department store established in Princes Street, Edinburgh.
- Glen Ord Distillery established on the Black Isle.[9]
- The Ordnance Survey commences the primary triangulation of Scotland.[10]
- David Brewster originates the stereoscope.
- Royal Scottish Academy is granted its Royal charter.
- Floors Castle is remodelled in Scottish Baronial style by William Henry Playfair for James Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe.
Births
- 13 January - William Miller, Free Church missionary and educationalist (died 1923)
- 29 January - David Gray, poet (died 1861)
- 22 February - John Joseph Jolly Kyle, Scots-Argentine chemist, died 1922 in Buenos Aires.
- 14 March - Robert Flint, theologian and philosopher, (died 1910)
- 25 March - William Wedderburn, civil servant in India (died 1918 in England)
- 26 March - Alexander Crum Brown, organic chemist (died 1922)
- 21 April - John Muir, conservationist (died 1914 in the United States)
- 17 May - William Esson, mathematician (died 1916 in England)
- 6 June - Thomas Blake Glover, merchant (died 1911 in Japan)
- 6 July - Thomas John MacLagan, doctor and pharmacologist (died 1903)
- 7 July - Thomas Davidson, poet (died 1870)
- 22 July - John McLagan, newspaper publisher (died 1901 in Canada)
- 6 August - Walter Shirlaw, artist in the United States (died 1909 in Spain)
- 3 September - David Bowman, botanist (died 1868 in Colombia)
- 4 September - William Gibson Sloan, Plymouth Brethren evangelist (died 1914 in the Faroe Islands)
- 6 September - George Ashdown Audsley, architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer (died 1925 in the United States)
- 9 September - Thomas Barker, mathematician (died 1907 in England)
- 10 October - William M'Intosh, physician and marine zoologist (died 1931)
- 16 October - John Smart, landscape painter (died 1899)
- 2 November - James Dykes Campbell, merchant and writer (died 1895)
- 4 November - Andrew Martin Fairbairn, theologian (died 1912 in England)
- John Firth, Orcadian folklorist (died 1922)
- Alexander Mackenzie, historian, author, magazine editor and politician (died 1898)
- Samuel McGaw recipient of the Victoria Cross, during the First Ashanti Expedition (died in 1878)
- Bruce James Talbert, interior designer (died 1881 in England)
Deaths
- 30 March - Thomas Balfour, politician (born 1810)
- 12 July - John Jamieson, lexicographer (born 1759)
- 27 July - David Hume, advocate (born 1757)
- 1 October - Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (born 1768)
- 7 November - Anne Grant, poet and author (born 1755)
- 16 November - Robert Cutlar Fergusson, lawyer and politician (born 1768)
The Arts
- 31 August - Scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs.
- Alexander and John Bethune publish Tales and Sketches of the Scottish Peasantry.[11]
See also
References
- ↑ Wilson, Alexander (1970). The Chartist Movement in Scotland. Manchester University Press. ISBN 071900411X.
- ↑ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ "Steamship Curaçao". Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ↑ "Where History Happened: Chartism". History Extra. BBC. 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ↑ "May 21st – 21/5/1838 – Elizabeth Jeffrey – Carluke, Lanarkshire". Victorian Hangings. London: True Crime Library. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ "Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Girouard, Mark (1981). The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 92.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ "Glen Ord Scotch Whisky Distillery". ScotchWhisky.net. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ Fleet, Christopher; Withers, Charles W. J. "Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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