1867 in Scotland
1867 in Scotland |
Years |
1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Events from 1867 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 9 July - Queen's Park Football Club, Scotland's first senior football club, is formed.
- 29 August - John Hill Burton is appointed Historiographer Royal.
- 28 November - Opening of Baylis's Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House, Glasgow, which becomes the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in May 1869.[1]
- Edinburgh Crystal glass is first manufactured, by the Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glass Company.
- The West of Scotland Grand National, predecessor of the Scottish Grand National, moves to a new course, Bogside Racecourse near Irvine, North Ayrshire.[2]
Births
- 26 April - William Barr, landscape painter (died 1933 in the United States)
- 1 August - William Speirs Bruce, naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer (died 1922)
- 26 August - Robert William Hamilton, colonial judge and Liberal politician (died 1944)
Deaths
- 5 January - Alexander Smith, poet (born 1829)
- 16 January - Alexander Gibson surgeon and forest conservator in India (born 1800)
- 24 June - Horatio McCulloch, landscape painter (born 1806)
See also
References
- ↑ "Theatre Royal". arthurlloyd.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
- ↑ "Scottish Grand National Facts". Ayr Racecourse. 2011-04-16. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
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