1846 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1846 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]- Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill until July; then Andrew Rutherfurd
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson; then Thomas Maitland
Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope
Events
[edit]- January – African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrives in Scotland from Ireland to continue his speaking tour of the United Kingdom.
- 22 June – the North British Railway is opened to public traffic between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first line to cross the border between Scotland and England. Edinburgh Waverley railway station is opened.[1]
- 15 August – inauguration of Scott Monument in Edinburgh.[2]
- 21 December – Scottish-born surgeon Robert Liston carries out the first operation under anesthesia in Europe, at University College Hospital in London.[3]
- Start of Highland Potato Famine.
- English tourism pioneer Thomas Cook brings 350 people from Leicester on a tour of Scotland.[4]
- Lighthouses at Covesea Skerries, Chanonry Point and Cromarty (all designed by Alan Stevenson) first illuminated.
- New College, Edinburgh, opens its doors as a theological training college for the Free Church of Scotland.
- Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore, commissions "the Paisley Sisters" of Strond on Harris to weave tweed in the Clan Murray tartan, origin of the commercial Harris Tweed industry.
- Engineer Robert William Thomson is granted his first patent for a pneumatic tyre, in France.
- 14-year-old James Clerk Maxwell's first scientific paper is presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5][6][7]
- The John Dewar & Sons company is created by John Dewar, Sr. and his sons
- Charles William George St John's Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands is published.
Births
[edit]- 1 January – Edward Pinnington, art historian, biographer and journalist (died 1921)
- 10 February – James Burns, shipowner (died 1923 in Australia)
- 28 February – John F. McIntosh, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
- 21 June – Marion Adams-Acton ("Jeanie Hering"), born Marion Jean Hamilton, novelist (died 1928 in London)
Deaths
[edit]- 12 February – Henry Duncan, minister, geologist and social reformer (born 1774)
- 23 May – Charles Ewart, soldier (born 1769)
- Andrew Innes, last survivor of the Buchanites
The arts
[edit]- William Motherwell's Poetical Works are published posthumously.
- Carolina, Lady Nairne's Lays from Strathern are published posthumously, revealing her authorship. This includes the Jacobite song "The Hundred Pipers".
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Thomas, John (1969). The North British Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4697-0.
- ^ "Scott Monument". AboutBritain. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Nineteenth Century Scottish History Timeline". Nineteenth Century Scotland History. Travel Scotland. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "On the description of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2.
- ^ Harman, Peter M. (1998). The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell. Cambridge University Press. p. 506. ISBN 0-521-00585-X.
- ^ "Key dates in the life of James Clerk Maxwell". James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2023.