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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1882 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1881–82 • 1882–83  | ||||
Events from the year 1882 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
 - Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff
 
Events
- 2 March — Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor, Berkshire.[1]
 - 1 June — Rothesay tramway opened on the Isle of Bute; a salt-water swimming bath is also opened in Rothesay this year.
 - June — St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is officially founded with a constitution being adopted at a general meeting in Glasgow.[2]
 - July — HM Prison Barlinnie opened in Glasgow.
 - 27 November — Inverythan rail accident: a cast iron girder underbridge in Aberdeenshire collapses as a Great North of Scotland Railway train passes over, causing at least 5 deaths.
 - 20 December — Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, opened at Garnethiil.
 - Battle of the Braes on Skye: Protests by crofting tenants facing eviction. Police from Glasgow and the military are sent to restore order.[3][4]
 - Vat 69 blended whisky first produced by William Sanderson & Son of South Queensferry.
 - Founding of Albion Rovers F.C. through the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers.
 - Lewis Campbell publishes The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, with a Selection from his Correspondence and Occasional Writings and a Sketch of his Contributions to Science, including some of Maxwell's verses.
 - Archaeologist Robert Munro publishes Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs.
 
Births
- 6 January — Alexander Gray, economist, poet and translator (died 1968)
 - 2 February — Joseph Wedderburn, mathematician (died 1948)
 - 20 February — Alexander Carrick, sculptor (died 1966)
 - 24 April — Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshal (died 1970)
 - 28 May — Donald McLeod, footballer (killed 1917 in Battle of Passchendaele)
 - 16 June — Norah Neilson Gray, portrait painter (died 1931)
 - 18 June — Thomas S. Tait, architect (died 1954)
 - John Alexander Stewart, orientalist (died 1948)
 
Deaths
- 17 January — Sir Daniel Macnee, portrait painter (born 1806)
 - 23 January — Robert Christison, toxicologist, physician and president of the British Medical Association (1875) (born 1797)
 - 7 March — John Muir, Indologist (born 1810)
 - 10 March — Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, marine zoologist (born 1830)
 - 11 May — John Brown, physician and writer (born 1810)
 
The Arts
- American scholar Francis James Child begins publication of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, the Child Ballads.
 - Gaelic poet William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe)'s collected works are published posthumously as Duain agus Orain.[5]
 
See also
References
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
 - ↑ "Our History". St Andrew's First Aid. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
 - ↑ "Clearances — Battle of the Braes". Highland Clearances. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
 - ↑ "The Battle of the Braes — 1882". Scotland's History. BBC. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
 - ↑ Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
 
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