1876 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1876 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1875–76 • 1876–77 |
Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson
- Solicitor General for Scotland — William Watson; then John Macdonald
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 14 February — Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.[1]
- 19 February — Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.[2]
- 5 April — River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
- 18 June — Promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh.[3]
- 17 October — St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.[4]
- 3 November — McLean Museum opens in Greenock.[5]
- William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
- Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.
Births
- 23 March — Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
- 19 June — Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
- 6 September — John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
- 3 October — Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
- 4 November — Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
- 7 November — Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
- 17 December — Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
- Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)
Deaths
- 9 January — Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843)
- 22 January — Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806)
- 3 February — Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813)
- 24 April — Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany)
- 7 May — David Bryce, architect (born 1803)
- 23 June — Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791)
- 23 December — Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800)
See also
References
- ↑ Miller, Anne; Mitchinson, John (2013-05-13). "QI: some quite interesting facts about telephones". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2014-03-18.
- ↑ "1875-76 New Beginnings". Partick Thistle - The Early Years. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
- ↑ Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (1st ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6.
- ↑ "Museum History". Inverclyde Council. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
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