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1869 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1869 in
Scotland
.
←
1868
1867
1866
1865
1864
1869
in
Scotland
→
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1869 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Moncreiff
until October; then
George Young
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
George Young
; then
Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Glencorse
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Moncreiff
Events
edit
5 January
– Scotland's oldest professional
Association football
team,
Kilmarnock F.C.
, is founded.
13 January
– the story magazine
The People's Friend
is first published in
Dundee
; it will continue to be published by
D. C. Thomson & Co.
more than 140 years later.
27 March
– the
Japanese ironclad
Ryūjō
is launched at
Alexander Hall and Company
's shipyard in
Aberdeen
.
[1]
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
.
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]
22 November
– the
clipper
ship
Cutty Sark
is launched in
Dumbarton
, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.
[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]
Construction of
Inverness Cathedral
is finished.
An Episcopal chapel from
St Andrews
is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to
Buckhaven
and re-erected there.
[5]
The
Caledonian Brewery
is established in
Shandon, Edinburgh
, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
Thomas McCall
of
Kilmarnock
builds two
velocipedes
driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.
[6]
Glasgow University Rugby Football Club
is founded.
Births
edit
14 January
–
Dennis Eadie
, character actor (died
1928
)
26 January
–
George Douglas Brown
, novelist (died
1902
)
14 February
–
Charles Wilson
, physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
1959
)
17 April
–
Robert Robertson
, chemist (died
1949
)
11 June
–
Walford Bodie
, stage magician (died
1939
)
Deaths
edit
11 July
–
William Jerdan
, journalist (born
1782
)
20 September
–
George Patton, Lord Glenalmond
, judge (born
1803
; suicide)
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1869 in Ireland
References
edit
^
"
Jho Sho Maru
".
Aberdeen Built Ships
. Aberdeen City Council
. Retrieved
25 April
2014
.
^
Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press
. Retrieved
28 January
2011
.
^
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
28 April
2014
.
^
"History of All Saints' church, St Andrews, From 1824–present". St Andrews: All Saints'
. Retrieved
23 March
2016
.
^
The English Mechanic and World of Science
14 May & 11 June 1869.