1845 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1845 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 31 July - Aberdeen Railway Bill receives Royal Assent[1]
- Glasgow Academy founded
- Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland in the Royal Mile
- Publication of the New Statistical Account of Scotland is completed
Births
- 8 January - James Stedman Dixon, leading coal-mine owner (died 1911)
- 14 February - Cecil Valentine De Vere, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player (died 1875)
- 17 March - Robert Fleming, financier (died 1933)
- 28 October - Robert Gibb, painter (died 1932)
- David Forsyth, chess player (died 1909 in New Zealand)
- James Manson, locomotive engineer (died 1935)
Deaths
- 7 August - Robert Graham, physician and botanist (born 1786)
- 30 September - Robert Forsyth, writer (born 1766)
- 26 October - Carolina Nairne, songwriter (born 1766)
See also
References
- ↑ Aberdeen's Bridges over the Dee and Don, Aberdeen City Libraries, 2005, retrieved 2014-06-16
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