1864 in Scotland
1864 in Scotland |
Years |
1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
Events from 1864 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 21 June - Last public execution in Edinburgh – George Bryce, the Ratho murderer.[1]
- 19 July - Chalmers Hospital opened in Banff, Aberdeenshire.[2]
- 8 December - James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.[3]
- Hall, Russell & Company established as marine engineers in Aberdeen.
- The National Bank of Scotland becomes the first Scottish bank to open an office in London.[4]
- Historian John Hill Burton publishes The Scot Abroad.
Births
- 2 January - James Caird, shipowner (died 1954 in England)
- 17 January - David Torrence, film actor (died 1951)
- 5 February - Marion Gilchrist, medical doctor (died 1952)
- 6 February - John Henry Mackay, anarchist writer (died 1933 in Germany)
- 14 February - James Burns, shipowner (died 1919)
- 28 May - Jessie Newbery, née Rowat, embroiderer (died 1948 in England)
- 10 June - Ninian Comper, Gothic Revival architect (died 1960 in England)
- 7 October - Harrington Mann, painter (died 1937 in the United States)
- 31 October - Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945 in England)
- 4 November - Robert Lorimer, architect (died 1929)[5]
Deaths
- 6 January - John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798)
- 1 June - Sir John Watson Gordon, portrait painter (born 1788)
See also
References
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ "Chalmers Hospital - Banff". NHS Grampian. 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
- ↑ The National Bank of Scotland 1825-1925. 1925.
- ↑ Hussey, Christopher (1931). The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer. Country Life.
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