1812 in Scotland

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1812
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See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1812 in: The UKWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1812 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateArchibald Colquhoun
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandDavid Monypenny

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord Granton
  • Lord Justice GeneralThe Duke of Montrose
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Boyle

Events[]

  • 1 JanuaryTron riot in Edinburgh concludes.
  • March – meeting in Edinburgh to discuss formation of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society.
  • 6 July – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It begins life as a 9.5-mile (16-kilometre), horse-drawn waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour.[1] On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach Caledonia began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock.[2]
  • 12 July (The Twelfth) – first Protestant Orange march in Scotland held in Glasgow, attracting hostile Catholic crowds.[3]
  • August – Henry Bell's PS Comet begins a passenger service on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.[4]
  • November – first bridge at Bonar Bridge completed in cast iron to the design of Thomas Telford.
  • Ongoing – Highland Clearances.
  • Brackla distillery built by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle.
  • Glasgow Bible Society established.
  • Gaelic chapel opens in London.

Births[]

  • 3 FebruaryWilliam Fraser Tolmie, scientist and politician in Canada (died 1886 in Canada)
  • 29 FebruaryJames Milne Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (died 29 February 1880 in Tasmania)
  • 26 March (probable date) – Charles Mackay, writer (died 1889)
  • 4 AprilGeorge Grub, church historian (died 1892)
  • 27 MayRobert Stirling Newall, engineer and astronomer (died 1889)
  • 3 JuneNorman Macleod, Church of Scotland minister (died 1872)
  • 2 SeptemberKirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (died 1878)
  • 23 DecemberSamuel Smiles, author and reformer (died 1904)

Deaths[]

  • 23 JanuaryRobert Craufurd, general (mortally wounded during Peninsular War) (born 1764)
  • 14 MayDuncan Ban MacIntyre, Gaelic poet (born 1724)

The arts[]

  • William Tennant's ottava rima mock-heroic poem Anster Fair is published, the first use of this Italian style in Britain.[5]

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1812 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ Robertson, C. J. A. (1983). The Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722–1844. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. ISBN 0-85976-088-X.
  2. ^ Air Advertiser [sic.] advertisement dated 25 June 1812.
  3. ^ Booker, Ronnie Michael (2010). Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. pp. 45–6. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  4. ^ McCrorie, Ian (1986). Clyde Pleasure Steamers. Greenock: Orr, Pollock & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-869850-00-9.
  5. ^ The Harmsworth Encyclopedia. 1905.
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