1886 in Scotland
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1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 |
Events from 1886 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 15 March - Glasgow City and District Railway, running chiefly in "cut and cover" tunnel, opens.[1]
- 5 April - The Great North of Scotland Railway opens its line through Garmouth, Moray, including its Speymouth viaduct over the River Spey with a 350 ft (105 m) main span which is the longest wrought iron arch bridge in Britain.
- 6 May - International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art opens in The Meadows, Edinburgh. Exhibits include an "Old Edinburgh Street" and displays related to Scotch whisky; Neilson and Company of Glasgow exhibit the Caledonian Railway Single steam locomotive.
- 17 May - Motherwell F.C. founded.
- 25 June - Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act grants security of tenure to crofters.[2]
- 1–27 July - In the general election, radical socialist R. B. Cunninghame Graham, standing as a Liberal, wins the North West Lanarkshire seat from the Unionists.
- 6 December - The steel-hulled full-rigged ship Balclutha is launched at Charles Connell and Company's yard at Scotstoun for Robert McMillan of Dumbarton. In 1954 she will be laid up as a museum ship in San Francisco.
- Burmah Oil founded as the Rangoon Oil Company in Glasgow by David Sime Cargill.
- Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women founded by Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake.
Births
- 21 April - Jimmy Gold, comedian (died 1967)
- 15 May - Helen Cruickshank, poet, suffragette and nationalist (died 1975)
- 1 October - Walter Lyon, lawyer and poet (killed in action 1915)
Deaths
- 17 July - David Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1815)
- 26 August - Robert Eden, first Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1804 in England)
The Arts
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and historical fiction Kidnapped are both first published.
- Mathilde Blind composes the poem "The Heather on Fire".
See also
References
- ↑ "Glasgow City and District Railway". Railscot. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "The Crofters Land Act passed — 1886". Scotland's History. BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
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