28 April – the
brigExmouth carrying emigrants from
Derry bound for
Quebec is wrecked off
Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[1][2]
18 September –
Educational Institute of Scotland formally constituted as a teachers' union "for the purpose of promoting sound learning and of advancing the interests of education in Scotland".[4]
^"Our history". Educational Institute of Scotland. 21 March 2007. Archived from
the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
^First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 10 November, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, 12 November.
28 April – the
brigExmouth carrying emigrants from
Derry bound for
Quebec is wrecked off
Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[1][2]
18 September –
Educational Institute of Scotland formally constituted as a teachers' union "for the purpose of promoting sound learning and of advancing the interests of education in Scotland".[4]
^"Our history". Educational Institute of Scotland. 21 March 2007. Archived from
the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
^First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 10 November, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, 12 November.