1878 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1878 Events from the year 1878 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|Original Tay Bridge from the north 14 January – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 15 March – restoration of the Scottish hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, carried out on the instructions of the newly appointed Pope Leo XIII. 31 May – the North British Railway's first Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay is ceremonially opened, its engineer, Thomas Bouch, being made a burgess of Dundee. Designed in iron to replace a train ferry, it is the world's longest bridge at this date.Thomas John John Thomas (author) The North British Railway 1 1969 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4697-0 12 December – the iron-hulled full-rigged ship Falls of Clyde is launched at Russell & Company's yard at Port Glasgow for Wright and Breakenridge's Glasgow-based Falls Line. In 1968 she will be laid up as a museum ship in Honolulu. Sophia Jex-Blake sets up in practice in Edinburgh as the city's first woman doctor. The hydropathic establishment in Moffat is opened. Construction of forts on Inchkeith begins. West coast shipping operator David Hutcheson & Co. passes wholly to control of David MacBrayne. The sanitary porcelainware works at Barrhead that becomes part of Armitage Shanks is established. Births 20 January – Finlay Currie, actor (died 1968 in England) 23 March – Muirhead Bone, graphic artist (died 1953 in England) 12 April – Alex McDonald, footballer (died 1949) 24 July – Louisa Jordan, nurse (died 1915 in Serbia) 10 August – Louis Esson, poet and playwright (died 1943 in Australia) 14 December – James Greenlees, rugby union footballer, educationalist and soldier (died 1951) Robert Freeman, Baptist minister in the United States George Wittet, architect (died 1926 in Bombay) Deaths 26 January – Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (born 1812) 19 February – George Paul Chalmers, painter (born 1833; died as the result of a street attack) 6 June – Robert Stirling, Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the Stirling engine (born 1790) 13 August – George Gilfillan, writer and poet (born 1813) 5 December – George Whyte-Melville, novelist and poet (born 1821)stanford.edu 31 December – James Matheson, Member of Parliament and co-founder of Jardine, Matheson & Co. (born 1796) The arts July – William McGonagall journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria.Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1878 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1870s in Scotland Scotland