1843 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1843 Events from the year 1843 in Scotland. Incumbents thumb|right|350px|The Disruption Assembly, painted by David Octavius Hill Law officers Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope Events 18 May – the Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/victorianbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml Victorian Britain BBC 2013-07-30 Construction of the Triple Kirks in Aberdeen begins. 3 June – first burial in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. 29 June – Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the paddle steamer Vanguard, from his new yard at Govan on the River Clyde.PS Vanguard Clydebuilt database http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8183 https://web.archive.org/web/20160316012446/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8183 dead 2016-03-16 2016-03-15 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens in Glasgow. 13 August – Sir William Dunbar, priest of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, is excommunicated from the Scottish Episcopal Church for refusing to administer or receive the sacrament in accordance with the church's ritual. Dingwall becomes the county town of Ross and Cromarty. The last laird of Raasay, John Macleod, emigrates to Tasmania having sold the Scottish island to George Rainy to help clear his debts.Keay John John Keay Keay Julia 1994 Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland London HarperCollins 978-0-00-255082-6 797 The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire.Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape Christopher Fleet Charles W. J. Withers http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/os_info1.html National Library of Scotland 2014-09-05 The Glenmorangie distillery is established in Tain by William Matheson. Glenburn Hydro is opened in Rothesay, Bute, the first hydropathic establishment in Scotland. First paddle steamer on Loch Katrine, Gypsy. Little Ross lighthouse completed. Angus MacKay becomes first Piper to the Sovereign. Marion Kirkland Reid's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh. Births 12 June – David Gill, astronomer known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy (died 1914) 5 August – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (died 1927) 21 August – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (died 1876) Deaths 25 July – Charles Macintosh, chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics after whom the Mackintosh raincoat is named (born 1766)Day Lance McNeil Ian Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology 11 September 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-65019-4 786 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&dq=Charles+Macintosh+29+december+1766&pg=PA786 en 5 December – David Hamilton, architect (born 1768) The arts Hill & Adamson form Scotland's first photographic studio, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. See also Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1843 in Ireland References collapsed Scotland Category:1840s in Scotland Scotland