1842 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1842 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 January - 3rd Scottish Convention of Chartists opens in Glasgow.[1]
- 21 February - Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened.[2]
- 29 April - New Market opened in Aberdeen.[3]
- 1 September - Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.[4]
- September - Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
- The Sobieski Stuarts' Vestiarium Scoticum is published in Edinburgh, purporting to be a reproduction from an old manuscript illustrating traditional Scottish clan tartan dress.
- A velocipede rider from Dumfriesshire, perhaps Kirkpatrick Macmillan, knocks down a pedestrian in the Gorbals district of Glasgow.[5]
- James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower.[6]
- Carnoustie Golf Links opened.[7]
Births
- 1 May - David Boyle, archaeologist in Canada (died 1911)
- 27 June - Jamie Anderson, golfer (died 1905)
- 20 September - James Dewar chemist and physicist (died 1923)
- 12 October - Robert Gillespie Reid, railway contractor in Canada (died 1908)
Deaths
- 28 April - Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (born 1774)
- 31 May - James Fergusson, judge (born 1769)
- 24 December - Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (born 1760)
See also
References
- ↑ Wilson, Alexander (1970). The Chartist Movement in Scotland. Manchester University Press. ISBN 071900411X.
- ↑ Glasgow Constitutional (1842-02-22). "Opening Of The Edinburgh And Glasgow Railway". The Times (17913) (London). p. 6.
- ↑ "The New Market". Leopard (Aberdeen): 32–5. November 1974.
- ↑ "Victoria's Visit". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ Johnston, James (Winter 1899). "The first bicycle". The Gallovidian (Dumfries) 4.
- ↑ "History of the Lawnmower: Part One: 1830-1850s". The Hall & Duck Trust. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ The World Atlas of Golf, 2nd ed. (1988); Finegan, James W., Scotland: Where Golf is Great (2010).
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