1846 in Scotland
Events from the year 1846 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 22 June - The North British Railway is opened to public traffic between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first line to cross the border between Scotland and England. Edinburgh Waverley railway station is opened.[1]
- 15 August - Inauguration of Scott Monument in Edinburgh.[2]
- 21 December - Scottish-born surgeon Robert Liston carries out the first operation under anesthesia in Europe, at University College Hospital in London.[3]
- Start of Highland Potato Famine.
- English tourism pioneer Thomas Cook brings 350 people from Leicester on a tour of Scotland.[4]
- Lighthouses at Covesea Skerries, Chanonry Point and Cromarty (all designed by Alan Stevenson) first illuminated.
- New College, Edinburgh, opens its doors as a theological training college for the Free Church of Scotland.
- Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore, commissions "the Paisley Sisters" of Strond on Harris to weave tweed in the Clan Murray tartan, origin of the commercial Harris Tweed industry.
- Engineer Robert William Thomson is granted his first patent for a pneumatic tyre, in France.
- The Dewar's Scotch whisky brand is created by John Dewar, Sr.
- Charles William George St John's Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands is published.
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