1817 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1817 in: The UK β’ Wales β’ Ireland β’ Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1817 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate β Alexander Maconochie
- Solicitor General for Scotland β James Wedderburn
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session β Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General β The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk β Lord Boyle
Events
- 25 January β The Scotsman is first published in Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren.[1]
- June β Union Canal authorised.
- 10 July β David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope.[2]
- 15 October β School of whales seen in the Tay.
- 4 December β The Inverness Courier is first published as a newspaper by John and Christian Isobel Johnstone.
- Dingwall Canal completed.[3]
- A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, opened as St Andrew's Chapel within the Episcopal Church.
- Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, demolished.
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens created.
- Corsewall Lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, first illuminated.[4]
- Thomas Telford's ferry piers at Invergordon and Inverbreakie are built.
- Bladnoch distillery founded by John and Thomas McClelland near Wigtown.
- The post of Regius Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow, is established by King George III.
- Approximate date - The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway introduces into service The Duke, the first steam locomotive on a railway in Scotland.
Births
- February β Samuel Morison Brown, chemist, poet and essayist (died 1856)
- 15 February β Robert Angus Smith, atmospheric chemist (died 1884)
- 28 February β Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist (died 1892)
- 9 April β Alexander Thomson, Greek Revival architect (died 1875)
- 29 April β Adam White, zoologist (died 1878)
- 17 May
- Thomas Davidson, palaeontologist (died 1885)
- John Ross, explorer (died 1903 in Australia)
- 22 May β James Macaulay, physician and literary editor (died 1902)
- 1 June β David Lyall, botanist (died 1895)
- 16 June β Alexander Forbes, bishop of Brechin (died 1875)
- 25 August β William Graham, wine merchant, art patron and Liberal politician (died 1885)
- 8 September β Stephen Hislop, Free Church missionary and geologist (died 1863 in India)
- 16 September β William Smith, architect (died 1891)
- 21 September β John Allan Broun, magnetologist (died 1879)
- 12 October β William Collins, publisher, Lord Provost of Glasgow and temperance activist (died 1895)
- 17 October β Alexander Mitchell, banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician (died 1887 in the United States)
- 29 October β Angus Macmillan, shipbuilder and politician on Prince Edward Island (died 1906 in Canada)
- 4 December β Thomas Thomson, military surgeon and botanist (died 1878 in India)
- 10 December β Alexander Wood, physician and inventor of the hypodermic syringe (died 1884)
- John Millar, Lord Craighill, Solicitor General (died 1888)
- Approximate date - Marion Kirkland Reid, feminist (died 1902?)
Deaths
- 8 February β Francis Horner, Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist (born 1778; died in Italy)
- 3 September β James Byres of Tonley, art dealer (born 1734)
- 2 October β Alexander Monro, anatomist (born 1733)
- 8 October β Henry Erskine, lawyer and Whig politician (born 1746)
The Arts
- 19 September β The body of poet Robert Burns (died 1796) is moved to a new mausoleum in Dumfries.[5]
- 31 December β Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy is published anonymously.
See also
References
- β "The Scotsman". Edinburgh: The Scotsman Digital Archive. 25 January 1817. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
- β British patent no. 4136. "Brewster Patent" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-05-31.
- β "Dingwall Canal". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
- β "Corsewall". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- β "Robert Burns Mausoleum". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
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