1878 in Scotland
1878 in Scotland |
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Events from 1878 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 14 January - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria.[1]
- 15 March - Restoration of the Scottish hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, carried out on the instructions of the newly appointed Pope Leo XIII.
- 31 May - The North British Railway's first Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay is ceremonially opened, its engineer, Thomas Bouch, being made a burgess of Dundee. Designed in iron to replace a train ferry, it is the world's longest bridge at this date.[2]
- 12 December - The iron-hulled full-rigged ship Falls of Clyde is launched at Russell & Company's yard at Port Glasgow for Wright and Breakenridge's Glasgow-based Falls Line. In 1968 she will be laid up as a museum ship in Honolulu.
- Sophia Jex-Blake sets up in practice in Edinburgh as the city's first woman doctor.
- The hydropathic establishment in Moffat is opened.
- Construction of forts on Inchkeith begins.
- West coast shipping operator David Hutcheson & Co. passes wholly to control of David MacBrayne.
Births
- 23 March - Muirhead Bone, graphic artist (died 1953 in Scotland)
- 12 April - Alex McDonald, footballer (died 1949)
- 14 December - James Greenlees, rugby union footballer, educationalist and soldier (died 1951)
- Robert Freeman, Baptist minister in the United States
- George Wittet, architect (died 1926 in Bombay)
Deaths
- 26 January - Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (born 1812)
- 19 February - George Paul Chalmers, painter (born 1833; died as the result of a street attack)
- 6 June - Robert Stirling, Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the Stirling engine (born 1790)
- 13 August - George Gilfillan, writer and poet (born 1813)
- 5 December - George Whyte-Melville, novelist and poet (born 1821)[3]
The Arts
- July - William McGonagall journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria.[4]
See also
References
- β Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- β Thomas, John (1969). The North British Railway 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4697-0.
- β stanford.edu
- β Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems.
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