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1807 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1807 in
Scotland
.
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1806
1805
1804
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1809
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Centuries:
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Decades:
1780s
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1807 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Henry Erskine
; then
Archibald Colquhoun
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
John Clerk
; then
David Boyle
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Succoth
Lord Justice General
–
The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Granton
Events
edit
June –
Thomas Telford
's stone bridge at
Wick
is completed.
[1]
13 July
– with the death at
Frascati
of Cardinal
Henry Benedict Stuart
, the last
Stuart
claimant to the British throne, the movement of
Jacobitism
comes to an effective end.
17 August
–
Robert Stevenson
and his workmen set out to begin construction of the
Bell Rock Lighthouse
from
Arbroath
in the
Smeaton
.
[2]
Autumn – the "Old Academy" building for
Perth Academy
, designed by
Robert Reid
, is completed.
21 October
– foundation stone of the
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
, on
Calton Hill
, is laid.
[3]
Highland Clearances
– clearance of
crofting
tenants from the Highland estates of the
Marchioness
and her husband the
Marquess of Stafford
to make way for sheep and other farming begins at
Farr
and
Lairg
.
[4]
The planned village of
Evanton
is established in
Easter Ross
by Alexander Fraser of Inchcoulter/Balconie.
The
Hunterian Museum
is opened to the public in Glasgow.
The post of
Regius Professor of Zoology
in the
University of Glasgow
is established as the Regius Chair of Natural History by King George III,
Lockhart Muirhead
being the first holder.
John Smith
is appointed official city architect of
Aberdeen
.
[5]
The publisher
A & C Black
is founded by
Adam
and Charles Black in Edinburgh.
The religious publisher
Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier
is established as booksellers Oliphant and Brown by William Oliphant in Edinburgh.
Millburn distillery
is established as the Inverness Distillery by a Mr. Welsh.
The use of
fulminate
in firearms is
patented
by the
Rev.
Alexander John Forsyth
.
[6]
William Wallace
proves that any two simple
polygons
of equal
area
are equidecomposable, later known as the
Bolyai–Gerwien theorem
.
[7]
Births
edit
27 March
–
Lauderdale Maule
, British Army officer (died of disease contracted on service in the
Crimean War
1854)
9 April
–
James Bannerman
,
Free Church
theologian (died
1868
)
28 April
–
Alan Stevenson
, lighthouse designer (died
1865
)
September –
David Deas
, British Royal Navy medical officer (died
1876
)
10 November
–
John Cumming
, Presbyterian minister (died 1881 in London)
Approximate date –
Peter Gray
,
actuary
(died
1887
)
Deaths
edit
1 March
–
Niel Gow
, fiddler (born
1727
)
16 June
–
John Skinner
, Episcopalian minister and songwriter (born
1721
)
26 June
–
Francis Peacock
, "father of Scottish country dance" (born
1723
)
The arts
edit
James Hogg
, Thomas Mouncey Cunningham and others publish the poetry collection
The Forest Minstrel
, and Hogg publishes
The Mountain Bard
.
[8]
David Wilkie
paints
Rent Day
.
See also
edit
1807 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Replaced to a similar design in 1877.
"Wick Bridge".
Canmore
.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
. 2007
. Retrieved
18 August
2014
.
^
Cadbury, Deborah
(2003).
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
. London: Fourth Estate.
ISBN
0-00-716304-5
.
^
"History of Edinburgh".
Visions of Scotland
. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015
. Retrieved
18 August
2014
.
^
Osborne, Brian D.; Armstrong, Ronald (1996).
Scottish Dates
. Edinburgh: Birlinn.
ISBN
1-874744-40-8
.
^
Geddes, Jane (2001).
Deeside and the Mearns: An Illustrated Architectural Guide
. Edinburgh: Rutland Press. p. 57.
ISBN
978-1-873190-40-1
.
^
"Rifled Breech Loader". globalsecurity.org
. Retrieved
22 September
2011
.
^
Stewart, Ian (1996).
From Here to Infinity
(3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 169.
ISBN
978-0-19-283202-3
.
^
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.