1894 in Scotland
1894 in Scotland |
Years |
1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 |
See also |
1893-94 in Scottish football |
1894-95 in Scottish football |
Events from 1894 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 5 July - Racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.[1]
- July - Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
- 7 August - The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.[2]
- 25 August - Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent.
- Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
- Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
- Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
- Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history
Births
- 26 March - Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
- 13 May - Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
- 29 June - David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
- 14 October - Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
- Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)
- R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)
Deaths
- 3 September - John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
- 3 December - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)[3]
The Arts
- Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.[4]
- Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.
See also
References
- ↑ "The Yacht Valkyrie sunk" (pdf). The New York Times. 1894-07-06. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
- ↑ Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles.
- ↑ "Robert Louis Stevenson". BBC. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
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