1900 in Scotland
1900 in Scotland |
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1899-00 in Scottish football |
1900-01 in Scottish football |
Events from 1900 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 23 April–12 May - The Automobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motor rally over a circular route from London to Edinburgh and return.[1]
- May - The Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery is discovered near Bonar Bridge.
- 31 October - The United Free Church of Scotland is formed by union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.[2]
- 15 December - All three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse are drowned.
- 21 December - Delting disaster: four fishing boats with 22 crew from the Shetland villages of Mossbank and Firth (in the parish of Delting) are lost in a storm.
- SS Sir Walter Scott enters excursion service on Loch Katrine.
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow.
Births
- 14 March - Margaret Kidd, lawyer (died 1989)
- 29 May - David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
- 9 October - Alastair Sim, character actor on stage and screen (died 1976)
- 12 December - David Meiklejohn, international footballer (died 1959)
- Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925)
Deaths
- 15 May - Hercules Linton, shipbuilder (born 1837)
- 30 May - Francis Moncreiff, international rugby union player and Scotland's first captain (born 1849)
- 9 October - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landowner (born 1847)
The Arts
- Doric dialect poet Charles Murray publishes Hamewith, including "The Whistle".
See also
References
- ↑ "1900 One Thousand Mile Trial". Grace's Guide. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- ↑ "The New Scottish Denomination". The Times (36288) (London). 1900-11-01. p. 8.
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