1871 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1871 Events from the year 1871 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – George Young Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff Events 7 March – the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4–1 win by Scotland over England.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 293–294 0-7126-5616-2 26 May – Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 1 August – the Arlington Swimming Club, designed by John Burnet, opens in the district of Charing Cross, Glasgow. 6 November – the Edinburgh Street Tramways Company begins operating horsecars, the first tram system in Scotland.David McLean Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh Trams 1871-1956 http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/lost-edinburgh-edinburgh-trams-1871-1956-1-2913044 The Scotsman Edinburgh 2013-04-30 2014-08-20 10 November – missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika. Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland Ronald Johnston Arthur McIvor East Linton Tuckwell Press 2000 1-86232-178-7 10 Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow. Births 21 January – Ernest Kitto, cricketer in New Zealand (died 1897 at sea) 27 January – Samuel Peploe, painter (died 1935) 17 February John A. Gilruth, veterinary surgeon and colonial administrator (died 1937 in Australia) Peter Corsar Anderson, golfer (died 1955) 10 September – Thomas Adams, urban planner (died 1940) 12 September – John Campbell, international footballer (died 1947) Lachlan Grant, physician (died 1945) Thomas W. Lamb, theatre architect in the United States (died 1942) Deaths 5 February – James Munro, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826) 17 March – Robert Chambers, publisher and geologist (born 1802) 20 April – Samuel Halkett, librarian (born 1814) 6 September – James Burns, shipowner (born 1789) 22 October – Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)Amodeo Christian June 2005 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods Geographical The arts William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).William Donaldson Alexander, William (1826–1894) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39241 2013-08-19 10.1093/ref:odnb/39241 William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 See also Timeline of Scottish history 1871 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1870s in Scotland Scotland