1869 in Scotland
Appearance
1869 in Scotland |
Years |
1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
Events from 1869 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 27 March – The Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.[1]
- October – The 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[2]
- 13 September – The Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- 22 November – The clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive into the 21st century.[3]
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St. Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.[4]
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.[5]
- The weekly story magazine The People's Friend is first published, by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee.
Births
- 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
- 14 February – Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
- 11 June – Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)
Deaths
- 11 July - William Jerdan, journalist, (born 1782)
See also
References
- ^ "Jho Sho Maru". Aberdeen Built Ships. Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "St Mary's Monastery (Kinnoull Monastery)". Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ^ The English Mechanic and World of Science 14 May & 11 June 1869.