Английская Википедия:1849 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1849 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glencorse
Events
- 19 February – Theatre Royal disaster: 65 people, almost all under the age of 20, are crushed to death in a panic caused by a small fire in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow.[1]
- 16 July – Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service withdrawn.[2]
- 5 October – after three years construction, the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse oil light is first exhibited.[3]
- 1 November – Buchanan Street railway station opened in Glasgow by the Caledonian Railway.
- Pollokshields is established as a Glasgow southside suburb by the Stirling-Maxwell family and set out or 'feued' by Edinburgh architect David Rhind.
- The drapers' store of Arthur & Fraser, predecessor of the House of Fraser, is established in Glasgow by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur.[4]
- The construction of Cox Brothers' Camperdown Works in Lochee begins.[5]
Births
- 27 May – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor (died 1934)
- 24 September – Cathcart William Methven, harbour engineer and painter (died 1925 in South Africa)
- 23 October – James Reid, physician (died 1923)
- 29 December – William Cunningham, economist and economic historian (died 1919)
Deaths
- 5 March – David Scott, historical painter (born 1806)
- 3 July – Anthony Todd Thomson, physician and pioneer of dermatology (born 1778)
See also
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ History www.nlb.org.uk, accessed 24 July 2013.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
