1881 in Scotland
Events from 1881 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 1 March - The Cunard Line's SS Servia, the first steel transatlantic liner, is launched at J. & G. Thomson's shipyard at Clydebank.[1]
- 12 March - Andrew Watson of Glasgow's Queen's Park F.C. (from a mixed Scottish/British Guianese background) captains the Scotland national football team in a 6–1 victory against England, becoming the world's first black international Association football player.
- 1 July - Formation, under the Childers Reforms of the British Army, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Gordon Highlanders, Highland Light Infantry and Seaforth Highlanders.
- 20/21 July - 58 men, the crews of ten fishing boats (mostly sixareens) from Yell, Shetland, are drowned in a sudden storm.
- 14 October - The Eyemouth disaster ("Black Friday"): a severe storm strikes the Berwickshire coast; 189 fishermen die.[2]
- 21 December - The Aberdeen Line's SS Aberdeen, the first oceangoing ship successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine, designed by Alexander C. Kirk, is launched at Robert Napier & Sons' yard at Govan.
- The remains of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (d. 1880), are stolen from the family crypt on the Dunecht estate.[3]
- Memorial cairn erected at the site of the Battle of Culloden (1746).
- Fettesian-Lorettonian Club established as a joint sporting club of the two named Edinburgh public schools, primarily for the playing of rugby union.
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References
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Aitchison, Peter (2001). Children of the Sea: the story of the Eyemouth disaster. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. ISBN 1-86232-240-6.
- ↑ Roughead, William (1913). "The Dunecht Mystery". Twelve Scots Trials. Edinburgh: W. Green & Sons. pp. 248–272. Retrieved 2014-06-06.