Английская Википедия:1842 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1842 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until October; then Duncan McNeill
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Duncan McNeill; then Adam Anderson
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope
Events
- 3 January – 3rd Scottish Convention of Chartists opens in Glasgow.[1]
- 21 February – Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened.[2]
- 29 April – New Market opened in Aberdeen.[3]
- May – the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland makes a "Claim of Rights" (drafted by Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop) asserting the church's independence of state control in spiritual matters.[4]
- 1 September – Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.[5]
- September – Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
- The Sobieski Stuarts' Vestiarium Scoticum is published in Edinburgh, purporting to be a reproduction from an old manuscript illustrating traditional Scottish clan tartan dress.
- A velocipede rider from Dumfriesshire, perhaps Kirkpatrick Macmillan, knocks down a pedestrian in the Gorbals district of Glasgow.[6]
- James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower.[7]
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location.
- Carnoustie Golf Links opened.[8]
Births
- 16 April – Laidlaw Purves, surgeon and golfer (died 1917 in England)
- 1 May – David Boyle, archaeologist in Canada (died 1911)
- 27 June – Jamie Anderson, golfer (died 1905)
- 20 September – James Dewar chemist and physicist (died 1923)
- 12 October – Robert Gillespie Reid, railway contractor in Canada (died 1908)
Deaths
- 28 April – Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (born 1774)
- 31 May – James Fergusson, judge (born 1769)
- 12 December – Robert Haldane, theologian (born 1764 in London)
- 24 December – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (born 1760)
See also
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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- ↑ The World Atlas of Golf, 2nd ed. (1988); Finegan, James W., Scotland: Where Golf is Great (2010).
