1844 in Scotland
Events from the year 1844 in Scotland.
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Events
- 1 February - Skerryvore lighthouse first lit.
- 2 May - Commission of Enquiry set up to inquire into the system of poor relief in Scotland and suggest improvements delivers its report, leading to the Scottish Poor Law Act the following year.[1]
- Glasgow Stock Exchange opens.
- James Matheson purchases Lewis.
- North Rona is depopulated.
- The Sobieski Stuarts publish The Costume of the Clans. With observations upon the literature, arts, manufactures and commerce of the Highlands and Western Isles during the Middle Ages; and the influence of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries upon their present condition.
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