1847 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1847 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
- 25 April - The brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[1][2]
- 4 May - Glenalmond College opens its doors.
- 18 September - Educational Institute of Scotland formally constituted as a teachers' union "for the purpose of promoting sound learning and of advancing the interests of education in Scotland".[3]
- 4–8 November - James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.[4][5]
- 23 November - The Otago Association ship Philip Laing sets sail from Greenock carrying settlers, mostly from the Free Church of Scotland, bound for Port Chalmers in New Zealand.
- The congregations of the United Secession Church unite with most of those of the Relief Church to form the United Presbyterian Church.[6]
- The Ordnance Survey confirms Ben Nevis as the highest mountain in the British Isles, ahead of Ben Macdui.
Births
- 29 January - John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, Liberal politician, former Secretary for Scotland (died 1887)
- 8 February - Lord Francis Douglas, mountaineer (killed 1865 on the Matterhorn)
- 13 February - Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, "Concrete Bob", founder of construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine (died 1934)
- 3 March - Alexander Graham Bell, scientist and inventor (died 1922 in Nova Scotia)
- 28 March - Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, art critic (died 1900)
- 27 April - Archibald Orr-Ewing, MP (died 1893)
- 2 July - Andrew Gray, physicist and mathematician (died 1925)
- 28 July - James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, politician, astronomer and bibliophile (died 1913)
- 3 August - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC, former Governor General of Canada (died 1934)
- 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, KT, landowner and Rector of the University of St Andrews (died 1900)
Deaths
- 31 May - Thomas Chalmers, mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland (born 1780)
- 7 June - David Mushet, metallurgist (born 1772)
- 9 August - Andrew Combe, physician and phrenologist (born 1797)
- 29 August - William Simson, portrait, landscape and subject painter (died 1800)
- 20 November - Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymn-writer (born 1793)
- 7 December - Robert Liston, pioneering surgeon (born 1794)
- Archibald Simpson, architect (born 1790)
The Arts
- R. M. Ballantyne returns to Edinburgh from Canada.
- The Sobieski Stuarts' fictional Tales of the Century: or Sketches of the romance of history between the years 1746 and 1846 is published.
See also
References
- ↑ "The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay". Isle of Islay. 2011.
- ↑ "The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland". My Secret Northern Ireland.
- ↑ "Our history". Educational Institute of Scotland. 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
- ↑ First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 10 November, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, 12 November.
- ↑ Gordon, H. Laing (2002). Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870). Minerva Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4102-0291-8. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ↑ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
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