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List of events
Events from the year 1807 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 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
Deaths
The arts
-
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.
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