1812_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1812 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

1 January – Tron riot in Edinburgh concludes.
March – meeting in Edinburgh to discuss formation of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society.
6 July – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It begins life as a 9.5-mile (16-kilometre), horse-drawn waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour.^[1] On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach Caledonia began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock.^[2]
12 July (The Twelfth) – first Protestant Orange march in Scotland held in Glasgow, attracting hostile Catholic crowds.^[3]
August – Henry Bell's PS Comet begins a passenger service on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.^[4]
November – first bridge at Bonar Bridge completed in cast iron to the design of Thomas Telford.
Ongoing – Highland Clearances.
Nelson's Tower completed in Forres as a monument to Lord Nelson.^[5]
Brackla distillery built by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle.
Glasgow Bible Society established.
Gaelic chapel opens in London.

3 February – William Fraser Tolmie, scientist and politician in Canada (died 1886 in Canada)
29 February – James Milne Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (died 29 February 1880 in Tasmania)
26 March (probable date) – Charles Mackay, writer (died 1889)
4 April – George Grub, church historian (died 1892)
27 May – Robert Stirling Newall, engineer and astronomer (died 1889)
3 June – Norman Macleod, Church of Scotland minister (died 1872)
2 September – Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (died 1878)
23 December – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (died 1904)

William Tennant's ottava rima mock-heroic poem Anster Fair is published, the first use of this Italian style in Britain.^[6]

^ Robertson, C. J. A. (1983). The Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722–1844. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. ISBN 0-85976-088-X.
^ Air Advertiser [sic.] advertisement dated 25 June 1812.
^ Booker, Ronnie Michael (2010). Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. pp. 45–6. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
^ McCrorie, Ian (1986). Clyde Pleasure Steamers. Greenock: Orr, Pollock & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-869850-00-9.
^ "Forres, Cluny Hills, Nelson's Monument". Canmore. Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
^ The Harmsworth Encyclopedia. 1905.