1828 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1828 Events from the year 1828 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events 7 January – Rev. Henry Duncan describes his discovery of the fossil footmarks of quadrupeds (Chelichnus duncani) in Permian red sandstone at Cornockle Muir, near Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, the first scientific report of a fossil track, in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Henry Duncan An Account of the Tracks and Footmarks of Animals found impressed on Sandstone in the Quarry of Cornockle Muir in Dumfriesshire Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 11 1 January 1828 194–209 10.1017/S0080456800021906 131478019 https://books.google.com/books?id=kKNbAAAAcAAJ&q=Transactions+%22Royal+Society+of+Edinburgh%22+1828+duncan+tracks&pg=PA194 2016-04-17 Published 1831. 9 March – an English gang make off with £28,350 after holding up the Glasgow branch of the Greenock Bank.Notable Dates in History http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2014-08-02 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044706/https://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm 8 August 2014 April – David Stow opens his Drygate model school in Glasgow.Morse Elizabeth J. 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26609 Stow, David (1793–1864) 10.1093/ref:odnb/26609 2015-11-07 15 June – 28 people are killed when the north gallery of the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy, collapses during a sermon by popular preacher Edward Irving. 8 August – the Ballochney Railway (near Airdrie, horse worked) is completed throughout.David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill George Buchanan George Buchanan (engineer born 1790) Views of the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. Also an Account of That and Other Railways in Lanarkshire Edinburgh 1832 10 September – first public demonstration of Rev. Patrick Bell's reaping machine on his family's farm.The Reverend Patrick Bell http://iainthepict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/reverend-patrick-bell.html On this day in Scotland 2011-04-22 2016-03-10 17–24 December – Burke and Hare murders trial in Edinburgh:Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims (up to 31 October) to provide bodies for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox; his accomplice William Hare is released having turned King's evidence. Inhabitants of the island of Muck emigrate to Nova Scotia.Muck The Scottish Islands Hamish Haswell-Smith 132 https://books.google.com/books?id=bXFwKl5gVqwC&pg=SA3-PA20 Rev. Edinburgh Canongate 2008 9781847672773 2014-09-10 St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, is completedHistory of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-08-02 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead to the design of William Henry Playfair. Caird & Company established by John Caird in Greenock as marine engineers. James Beaumont Neilson patents the hot blast process for ironmaking.W.K.V. Gale Ironmaking Princes Risborough Shire Publications 1981 0-85263-546-X 22 A steam road coach constructed by James and George Naysmith runs between Leith and Queensferry. Glasgow Co-operative Society established.151 George Chamier When it Happened in Scotland Constable London 2009 978-1-84901-006-1 Births 4 April – Mrs. Oliphant, born Margaret Wilson, novelist and historical writer (died 1897 in London) 16 August – John Waddell, railway contractor (died 1888) 30 September – John Simpson Knox, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1897 in England) 5 October – Alexander Gunn, grocery wholesaler (died 1907 in Canada) 1 November – Balfour Stewart, physicist (died 1887 in Ireland) 13 December – Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand, judge (died 1904) Alexander Crum, textile printer and Liberal politician (died 1893) Robert Doull, merchant and politician (died 1906 in Canada) John Small, librarian and scholar (died 1886) Deaths 29 February – John Ainslie, cartographer (born 1745) 11 June – Dugald Stewart, Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753) 5 July – Andrew Duncan, physician (born 1744) 20 December – Archibald Fletcher, reforming lawyer (born 1746) Robert Blair, astronomer (born 1748) William Drummond of Logiealmond, diplomat and philosopher (born c.1770) The arts The Maitland Club is founded in Glasgow to edit and publish early Scottish texts.History of the Maitland Club 80 1859 The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell 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 Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series) is published. 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