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1845 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1845 in
Scotland
.
←
1844
1843
1842
1841
1840
1845
in
Scotland
→
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1845 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Duncan McNeill
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Adam Anderson
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Boyle
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Hope
Events
edit
31 July
–
Aberdeen Railway
Bill receives Royal Assent
[1]
14 August
– the
Falkirk Herald
newspaper is first published
October –
Aberdeen
stock exchange
formed
Glasgow Academy
founded
Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh
, designed by
James Gillespie Graham
and
Augustus Pugin
, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the
Church of Scotland
in the
Royal Mile
Scottish Rights of Way Society established
Publication of the
New Statistical Account of Scotland
is completed
Publication of
Robert William Billings
'
The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland
begins.
Births
edit
8 January
–
James Stedman Dixon
, leading coal-mine owner (died
1911
)
14 February
–
Cecil Valentine De Vere
, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player (died
1875
)
25 February
–
George Reid
, Prime Minister of Australia, later Member of Parliament (UK) (died
1918
)
17 March
–
Robert Fleming
, financier (died
1933
)
28 October
–
Robert Gibb
, painter (died
1932
)
2 December
–
Alexander Crombie
, surgeon (died
1906
)
David Forsyth
, chess player (died
1909 in New Zealand
)
James Manson
, locomotive engineer (died
1935
)
Deaths
edit
7 August
–
Robert Graham
, physician and botanist (born
1786
)
30 September
–
Robert Forsyth
, writer (born
1766
)
26 October
–
Carolina Nairne
, songwriter (born
1766
)
Sport
edit
Penicuik
hosts the inaugural
Grand Match
in
curling
, between the north and the south of Scotland.
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
1845 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Aberdeen's Bridges over the Dee and Don
, Aberdeen City Libraries, 2005, archived from the original on 6 March 2014
, retrieved
16 June
2014