1891 in Scotland
1891 in Scotland |
Years |
1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
See also |
1890-91 in Scottish football |
1891-92 in Scottish football |
Events from 1891 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 30 April - An Comunn Gàidhealach is formally instituted.[1]
- 21 May - Dumbarton and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2–2 at Cathkin Park, Glasgow at the end of the inaugural season of the Scottish Football League.
- September - Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal; these become known as the Munros.
- 16 November–27 February 1892 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is resident at the former East End Exhibition Buildings in Glasgow.[2]
- 18 December - The largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers (3,822 GRT), is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.[3]
Births
- 7 February - D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (died 1971)
- 2 April - Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957)
- 9 April - Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955)
- 7 May - Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988)
- 8 November - Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973)
Deaths
- 12 March - John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (1880–1885) (born 1824)
- 19 April - Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840)
- 11 May - Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799)
- 15 September - Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804)
- 22 November - John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836)
- 22 December - William Smith, architect (born 1817)
The Arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.[4]
- The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
See also
References
- ↑ "On this day". The Scotsman. 2013-04-30.
- ↑ "Buffalo Bill". Dennistoun Conservation Society. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ She is lost at sea around late July 1892. "Maria Rickmers". 1998-04-27. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
- ↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
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