1845 in Scotland

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1845
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1845 in: The UKWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1845 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateDuncan McNeill
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandAdam Anderson

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice GeneralLord Boyle
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Hope

Events[]

  • 31 JulyAberdeen Railway Bill receives Royal Assent[1]
  • 14 August – the Falkirk Herald newspaper is first published
  • October – Aberdeen stock exchange formed
  • Glasgow Academy founded
  • Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland in the Royal Mile
  • Scottish Rights of Way Society established
  • Publication of the New Statistical Account of Scotland is completed

Births[]

  • 8 JanuaryJames Stedman Dixon, leading coal-mine owner (died 1911)
  • 14 FebruaryCecil Valentine De Vere, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player (died 1875)
  • 17 MarchRobert Fleming, financier (died 1933)
  • 28 OctoberRobert Gibb, painter (died 1932)
  • 2 DecemberAlexander Crombie, surgeon (died 1906)
  • David Forsyth, chess player (died 1909 in New Zealand)
  • James Manson, locomotive engineer (died 1935)

Deaths[]

  • 7 AugustRobert Graham, physician and botanist (born 1786)
  • 30 SeptemberRobert Forsyth, writer (born 1766)
  • 26 OctoberCarolina Nairne, songwriter (born 1766)

Sport[]

  • Penicuik hosts the inaugural Grand Match in curling, between the north and the south of Scotland.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ Aberdeen's Bridges over the Dee and Don, Aberdeen City Libraries, 2005, archived from the original on 19 November 2013, retrieved 16 June 2014
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