1794 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1794 Events from the year 1794 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield Events 10 February – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, authorized to raise the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of FootNotable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2016-01-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm 25 January 2016 dead dmy-all (first parades 24 June). This year also the Duke becomes Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. May – Habeas corpus suspended. Robert Watt, who has plotted to seize Edinburgh Castle, is tried and executed for treason.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 80–1 November – Irish inventor Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick.Adrian James Kirwan R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Dublin 117C 2017 209–35 December – Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens. Lords lieutenant appointed permanently across Scotland by royal warrant. Glengarry Fencibles formed by Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, perhaps the first military unit to wear the Glengarry bonnet. The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, is formed by the Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire (approximate date). Original Pentland Skerries lighthouse on Muckle Skerry built, engineered by Thomas Smith with the work superintendend by his stepson Robert Stevenson, the latter's first official work for the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses.http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/pentland.htm Northern Lighthouse Board Edinburgh Pentland Skerries 2009 Lighthouse Library 2016-03-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20091116111613/http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/pentland.htm 16 November 2009 dead Oban distillery established by brothers John and Hugh Stevenson. Births 12 June – John Gibson Lockhart, writer and editor (died 1854) 28 October – Robert Liston, pioneering surgeon (died 1847) 12 November – Thomas Grainger, civil engineer and surveyor (died 1852)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201429 Thomas Granger Scottish Architects 2016-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120219174148/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201429 19 February 2012 dead dmy 27 December – Alexander Gordon Laing, explorer (killed 1826 in Timbuktu) Undated – Robert Edmonstone, painter (died 1834) Deaths 23 February – James Playfair, neoclassical architect (born 1755) 27 April – James Bruce, explorer (born 1716) 18 June – James Murray, military officer and administrator (born 1721) 23 June – James Graham, quack doctor (born 1745) 13 July – James Lind, naval physician (born 1716) 20 October – James Adam, architect and furniture designer (born 1732) 22 November – Alison Cockburn, writer and literary hostess (born 1713) 30 December – Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis The arts 8 May – Robert Burns' song Scots Wha Hae published in The Morning Chronicle.1794 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology 2007-06-05 22 August 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/ dead 25 June – Burns sets out on his second Galloway tour. Joseph Ritson's anthology Scottish Song is published.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Scotland References collapsed Scotland Category:1790s in Scotland Scotland