1868 in Scotland
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1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 |
Events from 1868 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 22 March - Last fully public hanging in Scotland - that of Joseph Bell at Perth.[1] There is another on 12 May at Dumfries.
- 13 July - Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 ("Scottish Reform Act") passed, creating seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons at the expense of English ones, and giving the vote to all male householders.
- 19 August - The clipper Thermopylae is launched at Walter Hood & Company's Aberdeen shipyard for George Thompson's Aberdeen Line.
- October - Kilmarnock Infirmary opened.
- Queen Margaret College (Glasgow) established by the Association for the Higher Education of Women.
- The Western General Hospital is established in Edinburgh.
- Crieff Hydro opened.
- George Baxter opens a grocery shop in Fochabers, the origin of Baxters foods.
- Rose's lime juice first manufactured, in Leith.
Births
- 13 April - John Blackwood McEwen, composer (died 1948 in London)
- 5 June - James Connolly, Irish nationalist leader (executed 1916 in Ireland)
- 7 June - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, watercolourist and artist (died 1928 in London)
- 23 December - Herbert MacNair, artist and designer (died 1955)
Deaths
- 10 February - David Brewster, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal (born 1781)
- 17 June - George Arnott Walker-Arnott, botanist (born 1799)
- 28 November - Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (born 1802)
See also
References
- ↑ "The ending of public executions in the 19th century". www.capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
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