1873_in_Scotland Knowpia

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1873 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere; Scottish football: 1872–73 • 1873–74

Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association^[1]
15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh^[2]
Edinburgh Evening News first published
Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow^[3]

24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
2 October – John Cunningham, architect (born 1799)
27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)

^ "The Cup". Scottish FA. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
^ "Greyfriars Bobby". Edinburgh Museums & Galleries. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
^ Weir, William (2008). The Weir Group: the history of a Scottish engineering legend, 1872-2008. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-86197-886-8.