1869 in Scotland
Events from 1869 in Scotland
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Events
- 27 March – The Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.[1]
- October – The 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[2]
- 13 September – The Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- 22 November – The clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive into the 21st century.[3]
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St. Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.[4]
- The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.[5]
- The story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
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