1816 in Scotland
1816 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1816 in Scotland.
Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Law officers
1.2 Judiciary
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 The arts
6 See also
7 References
Incumbents[edit]
Monarch – George III
Law officers[edit]
Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun; then Alexander Maconochie
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie; then James Wedderburn
Judiciary[edit]
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
Events[edit]
- April – Highland Clearances: Factor Patrick Sellar is tried but acquitted at Inverness of culpable homicide during the mass expulsion of crofting tenants from Strathnaver in 1814.[1]
18 June – causeway, bridge and sluice across Loch Fleet at The Mound, designed by Thomas Telford, completed.
13 August – an earthquake in Inverness is the strongest ever in Scotland.[2]
1 September – the Northern Lighthouse Board's new light on the Isle of May, designed by Robert Stevenson, is completed.[3]
- The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is completed.
- Logie Bridge at Ferness completed to a design by Telford;[4] as also is the bridge at Contin and the harbour at Portmahomack.
Suspension footbridge erected over the Gala Water in Galashiels[5] and upper arch bridge at Rumbling Bridge completed.
David Brewster discovers stress birefringence.- Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a U.K. patent for the Stirling hot air engine.
Lagavulin distillery established on Islay.
St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, is completed as the city's first post-Reformation Roman Catholic church (architect: James Gillespie Graham).- First Jewish community in Edinburgh in modern times established.
- The Edinburgh Races and Caledonian Hunt are held for the first time at Musselburgh Racecourse rather than on the sands of Leith.[6][7]
Births[edit]
- 5 January
James Brunlees, civil engineer (died 1892)
Daniel Wilson, archaeologist and academic (died 1892 in Canada)
11 January – Henry Robertson, railway promoter (died 1888 in Wales)
3 February – Archibald McKellar, politician in Ontario (died 1894 in Canada)
14 February – James Morison, evangelical (died 1893)
13 June – Charles Alexander, merchant and politician in Quebec (died 1905 in Canada)
1 September – James Drummond, historical painter and curator (died 1877)
16 September – Theodore Martin, writer (died 1909)
30 September – Archibald Sturrock, steam locomotive engineer (died 1909)
12 October – Alexander Bryson, scientist (died 1866)
Deaths[edit]
22 February – Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (born 1723)
28 February – Archibald Bruce, theologian (born 1746)
14 June – Allan Maconochie, jurist (born 1748)
25 December – Hercules Ross, merchant in Jamaica (born 1745)
The arts[edit]
Walter Scott's novels The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality are published.- The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London.
See also[edit]
- Timeline of Scottish history
- 1816 in the United Kingdom
References[edit]
^ Richards, Eric (2004). "Sellar, Patrick (1780–1851)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25055. Retrieved 2016-03-09..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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^ The Guinness Book of Answers (3rd ed.). Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. 1980. p. 56. ISBN 0-85112-202-7.
^ "Isle of May". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
^ "Logie Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
^ "1816 Galashiels". Bridgemeister. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
^ "Horse-racing at Musselburgh". Haddington, East Lothian: John Gray Centre. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
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