1879 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1879 Events from the year 1879 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – William Watson Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff Events thumb|Tay Bridge disaster 4 January – Dundee-born Mormon missionary Hugh Findlay arrives in Shetland from the United States and on 31 March baptizes the islands' first two converts.Jensen Andrew Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1914 103 1-4179-6854-0 25 January – first service held in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) on completion of the nave. 1 April – Dundee Stock Exchange established. 6 June – William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, at Dumbarton.SS Rotomahana Clydebuilt http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503 https://web.archive.org/web/20050312163620/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503 dead 2005-03-12 2014-04-14 31 July – the Caledonian Railway opens the original Glasgow Central station. 30 September – foundation stone of the Forth Bridge is laid on Inchgarvie. 2 October – William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first transatlantic steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Buenos Ayrean, at Dumbarton. On 1 December she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow for South America.S/S Buenos Ayrean, Allan Line http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=bueay Norway Heritage 2016-03-11 28 December – the Tay Bridge disaster: the central part of the new Tay Bridge at Dundee collapses in a storm as a train passes over it, killing 78.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 303–304 0-7126-5616-2 Construction of Garnethill Synagogue, Glasgow, the oldest to survive in Scotland, begins. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh moves to Lauriston Place. First Angus cattle society formed. Births 13 January – William Reid Dick, sculptor (died 1961 in England) 16 January – Jimmy Gillespie, rugby union player (died 1943) 27 March – Catherine Carswell, née Catherine Roxburgh Macfarlane, author (died 1946 in England) 29 March – Evelyn Vida Baxter, ornithologist (died 1959)Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen 2007 Edinburgh University Press 9780748626601 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 en 24 August – John Maclean, Marxist (died 1923) 13 September – Tommy Tait, international footballer (died 1942) 21 October – Willie Anderson, golfer (died 1910 in the United States) 23 October – John MacDougall Hay, Church of Scotland minister and novelist (died 1919) John Maxwell, film producer (died 1940 in England) Henry J. Watt, experimental psychologist (died 1925) Deaths 19 June – James Valentine, photographer (born 1815) 23 July – Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode, advocate, judge and politician (born 1804) 29 October – John Blackwood, publisher (born 1818) 5 November – James Clerk Maxwell, theoretical physicist (born 1831; died of abdominal cancer in Cambridge)Harman Peter M. The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell https://books.google.com/books?id=qf6jtc4nZisC 1998 Cambridge University Press 0-521-00585-X 23 November – Mark Napier, lawyer, sheriff, biographer and historical author (born 1798) The arts 6 September – first publication of a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" in Chambers's Journal. Construction of Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, completed. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1879 in Ireland References 1879 Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1870s in Scotland Scotland