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List of events
Events from the year 1817 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
25 January –
The Scotsman is first published in
Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer
William Ritchie and
customs official
Charles Maclaren .
[1]
1 March – suffocating fumes in the
Leadhills lead mine kill seven.
[2]
1 April –
Blackwood's Magazine is launched as the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine , a Tory publication. In October the publisher,
William Blackwood , relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine .
20 May – Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by
Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a
Glasgow Botanic Garden .
[3]
June –
Union Canal authorised.
10 July –
David Brewster
patents the
kaleidoscope .
[4]
15 October – school of whales seen in the
Tay .
November –
Thomas Chalmers , in a sermon, appeals for a Christian effort to deal with the social condition of Glasgow.
[5]
4 December –
The Inverness Courier is first published as a newspaper by John and
Christian Isobel Johnstone .
Dingwall Canal completed.
[6]
A
typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and
Glasgow .
Dufftown founded by
James Duff, 4th Earl Fife , in
Moray .
St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen , opened as St Andrew's Chapel within the Episcopal Church.
Calton Gaol, Edinburgh, completed.
Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh , demolished.
Glasgow Botanic Gardens created.
Corsewall Lighthouse , designed by
Robert Stevenson , first illuminated.
[7]
Thomas Telford 's ferry piers at
Invergordon and Inverbreakie are built.
Bladnoch distillery founded by John and Thomas McClelland near
Wigtown .
Teaninich distillery founded by Hugh Munro at
Alness .
The post of
Regius Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Glasgow is established by
King George III .
Approximate date – the
Kilmarnock and Troon Railway introduces into service The Duke , the first
steam locomotive on a railway in Scotland.
Births
February –
Samuel Morison Brown , chemist, poet and essayist (died
1856 )
15 February –
Robert Angus Smith , atmospheric chemist (died
1884 )
28 February –
Walter Hood Fitch , botanical artist (died
1892 )
9 April –
Alexander Thomson ,
Greek Revival architect (died
1875 )
29 April –
Adam White , zoologist (died
1878 )
17 May
22 May –
James Macaulay , physician and literary editor (died
1902 )
1 June –
David Lyall , botanist (died
1895 )
16 June –
Alexander Forbes , bishop of Brechin (died
1875 )
25 August –
William Graham , wine merchant, art patron and Liberal politician (died
1885 )
8 September –
Stephen Hislop ,
Free Church missionary and geologist (died 1863 in India)
16 September –
William Smith , architect (died
1891 )
21 September –
John Allan Broun ,
magnetologist (died
1879 )
12 October –
William Collins , publisher, Lord Provost of Glasgow and temperance activist (died
1895 )
17 October –
Alexander Mitchell , banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician (died
1887 in the United States )
29 October –
Angus Macmillan , shipbuilder and politician on Prince Edward Island (died
1906 in Canada )
4 December –
Thomas Thomson , military surgeon and botanist (died 1878 in India)
10 December –
Alexander Wood , physician and inventor of the hypodermic
syringe (died
1884 )
John Millar, Lord Craighill , Solicitor General (died
1888 )
Approximate date –
Marion Kirkland Reid , feminist (died 1902?)
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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