1801 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1801 Events from the year 1801 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston; then Charles Hope Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove Events 1 January – legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.1801 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 10 March – the first British census is carried out (under terms of the Census Act 1800), with the Scottish counts undertaken by schoolmasters. The population of Scotland is determined to be 1,608,420.Population of Scotland GENUKI http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/population.html 2004 2014-08-25 16 March – Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game, designed as a music teaching aid.Raz Carmel 2018 Anne Young's Musical Games (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design 4 2 SMT-V Society for Music Theory https://vimeo.com/278344604 4 June – Soldiers of the Ross and Cromarty Rangers fire on a mob in Aberdeen celebrating the King's birthday, killing two.Stewart David 1822 Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland https://archive.org/details/sketchescharact00stewgoog 427–8 18 July – Crinan Canal opened (although incomplete).Jean Lindsay The Canals of Scotland Newton Abbot David & Charles 1968 0-7153-4240-1 121 First complete Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic, Am Bìoball Gàidhlig, is published. Dundee Courier & Argus first published.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-16576612 Dundee Courier makes move to compact 2012-01-16 2014-08-25 BBC News John Cary publishes A New Map of Scotland. Second Elgin Academy school building (occupied in modern times by Moray College) constructed. Edinburgh town council resolves to drain The Meadows.History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-08-25 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead John Crabbie of Leith begins to deal in ginger. Chivas Brothers open a grocery store in Aberdeen which will blend Chivas Regal whisky. Births 4 January – James Giles, landscape painter (died 1870) 14 January – Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh, letter-writer (died 1866 in London) 2 February – George Maclean, colonial governor (died 1847 in Cape Coast) 31 May – Robert Rankin, timber merchant and shipowner (died 1870 in England) 7 June – Charles Cowan, papermaker and Radical politician (died 1889) 24 June – David Haggart, thief and murderer (hanged 1821) 4 July – James Johnstone, Liberal politician (died 1888) 21 August – Benjamin Boyd, settler in New South Wales (probably killed 1851 ln Guadalcanal) 31 August – William Downe Gillon, Whig politician (died 1846) 7 November – Robert Dale Owen, social reformer (died 1877 in the United States) Alexander Thom, almanac editor (died 1879 in Ireland) Deaths 14 February – Robert Paterson ("Old Mortality"), stonemason (born 1715) 28 March – Sir Ralph Abercromby, general (born 1734; died in Egypt) 10 May – Richard Gall, poet (born 1776) 30 May – John Millar, philosopher (born 1735) 11 October – John Donaldson, miniature painter (born 1737; died in London) 25 December – Andrew Lumisden, Jacobite (born 1720) Jean Glover, poet and singer (born 1758; died in Ireland) The arts 21 July – Greenock Burns Club is established to honour the memory of poet Robert Burns (died 1796)Greenock Burns Club http://www.greenockburnsclub.com/ 2014-08-26 17 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140517125906/http://greenockburnsclub.com/ dead and Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns is published. James Hogg publishes Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm See also 1801 in Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Category:1800s in Scotland Scotland