1895 in Scotland
1895 in Scotland |
Years |
1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 |
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1894-95 in Scottish football |
1895-96 in Scottish football |
Events from 1895 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 11 February - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.[1] (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
- 11 April - Electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.[2]
- July–August - Second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen.
- 28 October
- The Daily Record newspaper is first published.
- Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.[3]
- Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.[4][5]
- Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
- New offices for The Glasgow Herald (now The Lighthouse), designed by John Keppie[6] and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed.
- The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers.
Births
- 9 March - Isobel Baillie, soprano (died 1983)
- 29 March - Anne Redpath, still life painter (died 1965)
- 19 May - Charles Sorley, poet (killed in action 1915)
- 17 June - George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion (died 1991)
- 25 August - R. D. Low, comics writer and editor (died 1980)
- 3 October - George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1917)
Deaths
- 18 June - Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer (born 1853)
- 22 August - Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner (born 1821)
See also
References
- ↑ "Braemar poised to break its own record as coldest spot". The Press and Journal. Aberdeen. 2010-01-07.
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
- ↑ Finlay, Ross (1995-10-27). "Scotland's motoring century". The Herald (Glasgow). Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "Percy Sinclair Pilcher". Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ↑ "Percy Sinclair Pilcher (1867–1899)". Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. 2011. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ↑ The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Building information (leaflet).
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