1817 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1817 Events from the year 1817 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Alexander Maconochie Solicitor General for Scotland – James Wedderburn Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events 25 January – The Scotsman is first published in Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren.http://archive.scotsman.com/edition.cfm?id=TSC/1817/01/25 The Scotsman 25 January 1817 The Scotsman Digital Archive Edinburgh 2012-11-06 1 March – suffocating fumes in the Leadhills lead mine kill seven.James Braid (surgeon) Braid James https://books.google.com/books?id=8-9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414 Account of the Fatal Accident which happened in the Leadhills Company's Mines, the 1st March, 1817 The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany 79 June 1817 414–416 1 April – Blackwood's Magazine is launched as the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, a Tory publication. In October the publisher, William Blackwood, relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. 20 May – Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a Glasgow Botanic Garden.James Jeffray The University of Glasgow Story University of Glasgow https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1191&type=P 2022-07-17 12 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200812100754/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1191&type=P dead June – Union Canal authorised. 10 July – David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope.British patent no. 4136. http://www.brewstersociety.com/brewster_patent.pdf Brewster Patent 2011-05-31 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110721020838/http://www.brewstersociety.com/brewster_patent.pdf 21 July 2011 15 October – school of whales seen in the Tay. November – Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon, appeals for a Christian effort to deal with the social condition of Glasgow.Sheridan Gilley Brian Stanley Cambridge History of Christianity, volume 8 World Christianities c. 1815–c. 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=LvvzlLf9dFEC&pg=PA301 2005 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81456-0 301 4 December – The Inverness Courier is first published as a newspaper by John and Christian Isobel Johnstone. Dingwall Canal completed.PLA 12769 NH55NE 24 Dingwall Canal 3 July 2025 A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Dufftown founded by James Duff, 4th Earl Fife, in Moray. St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, opened as St Andrew's Chapel within the Episcopal Church. Calton Gaol, Edinburgh, completed. Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, demolished. Glasgow Botanic Gardens created. Corsewall Lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, first illuminated.http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/corsewall.htm Northern Lighthouse Board Corsewall 2014-08-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20061002165724/http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/corsewall.htm 2 October 2006 dead Thomas Telford's ferry piers at Invergordon and Inverbreakie are built. Bladnoch distillery founded by John and Thomas McClelland near Wigtown. Teaninich distillery founded by Hugh Munro at Alness. The post of Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow is established by King George III. Approximate date – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway introduces into service The Duke, the first steam locomotive on a railway in Scotland. Births February – Samuel Morison Brown, chemist, poet and essayist (died 1856) 15 February – Robert Angus Smith, atmospheric chemist (died 1884) 28 February – Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist (died 1892) 9 April – Alexander Thomson, Greek Revival architect (died 1875) 29 April – Adam White, zoologist (died 1878) 17 May Thomas Davidson, palaeontologist (died 1885) John Ross, explorer (died 1903 in Australia) 22 May – James Macaulay, physician and literary editor (died 1902) 1 June – David Lyall, botanist (died 1895) 16 June – Alexander Forbes, bishop of Brechin (died 1875) 25 August – William Graham, wine merchant, art patron and Liberal politician (died 1885) 8 September – Stephen Hislop, Free Church missionary and geologist (died 1863 in India) 16 September – William Smith, architect (died 1891) 21 September – John Allan Broun, magnetologist (died 1879) 12 October – William Collins, publisher, Lord Provost of Glasgow and temperance activist (died 1895) 17 October – Alexander Mitchell, banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician (died 1887 in the United States) 29 October – Angus Macmillan, shipbuilder and politician on Prince Edward Island (died 1906 in Canada) 4 December – Thomas Thomson, military surgeon and botanist (died 1878 in India) 10 December – Alexander Wood, physician and inventor of the hypodermic syringe (died 1884) John Millar, Lord Craighill, Solicitor General (died 1888) Approximate date – Marion Kirkland Reid, feminist (died 1902?) Deaths 8 February – Francis Horner, Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist (born 1778; died in Italy) 3 September – James Byres of Tonley, art dealer (born 1734) 2 October – Alexander Monro, anatomist (born 1733) 8 October – Henry Erskine, lawyer and Whig politician (born 1746) The arts 19 September – the body of poet Robert Burns (died 1796) is moved to a new mausoleum in Dumfries.Robert Burns Mausoleum http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumfries/burnsmausoleum/ Undiscovered Scotland 2014-08-27 31 December – Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy is published anonymously. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1817 in Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Category:1810s in Scotland Scotland