1818 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1818 Events from the year 1818 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Alexander Maconochie Solicitor General for Scotland – James Wedderburn Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events 13 January – Torgoyle Bridge in Glenmoriston is swept away by an exceptional flood event.9th report of the Parliamentary Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges, April 1821. 4 February – the Honours of Scotland are put on display in Edinburgh Castle after being discovered in store there;Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-05-18 Walter Scott, one of the prime movers in the discovery, is rewarded with a baronetcy in 1820. 17 February – the remains of King Robert the Bruce found at Dunfermline Abbey.Dunfermline celebrates discovery of Robert the Bruce remains https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/dunfermline-celebrates-discovery-of-robert-the-bruce-remains-1-4689156 Scotsman 25 February 2018 en 3 March – construction of the Union Canal begins at the Edinburgh end.History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-05-18 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead 19 March – Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh, designed by William Burn, dedicated. Mid-May – paddle steamer Thames makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde to Dublin.H. Philip Spratt The Birth of the Steamboat https://archive.org/details/birthofsteamboat0000spra registration London Charles Griffin 1958 95–7 13–14 June – Rob Roy makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde to Belfast.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal New road bridge at Spean Bridge completed to a design by Thomas Telford.Spean Bridge http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/108231/details/spean+bridge/ Canmore Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 2007 2014-08-09 First public supply of gas in Glasgow. Robert Barclay founds the engineering company in Glasgow that will become marine engineers Barclay Curle. Shipbuilder Thomas Morton of Leith invents the patent slip. Robert Stirling builds the first practical version of his Stirling engine. Restoration of the great house at Rosehall begins, to assist which a private canal is dug.N. Forbes J. M. T. Howat The Rosehall Canal: The Most Northerly in Great Britain? Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society 34 2002 38–9 The post of Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow, is established by King George III, Robert Graham, MD, being the first holder; Thomas Thomson takes up his appointment as first Regius Professor of Chemistry here. Births 21 February – George Wilson, chemist (died 1859) 10 March – William Menelaus, mechanical engineer (died 1882 in Wales) 17 May – William Hay, architect (died 1888) 4 June – Alexander Henry, gun maker and rifle volunteer (died 1894) 11 June – Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903) 22 June – Donald Mackenzie, advocate and judge (died 1875) 22 July – Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887) 5 August – Thomas Elder, pastoralist, businessman, racehorse breeder, politician and philanthropist in Australia (died 1897 in Australia) 23 August – John Cairns, Presbyterian divine (died 1892) 25 September – Helen Macfarlane, radical writer (died 1860) 3 October – Alexander Macmillan, publisher (died 1896) 24 October – William Forsyth, writer (died 1879) 7 December – John Blackwood, publisher (died 1879) Andrew Leslie, shipbuilder Alexander McLachlan, poet (died 1896 in Canada) Deaths 13 February – George Dempster of Dunnichen, advocate, agricultural improver, banker and politician (born 1732) 15 March – Hector Macneill, poet (born 1746) 6 November – Malcolm Laing, historian (born 1762) 7 December – Mary Brunton, novelist (born 1778)Royle Trevor The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature 2012 Random House 9781780574196 92 https://books.google.com/books?id=r8C1I7yD8wUC&pg=PT92 en The arts June–August – English poet John Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the English Lake District. On 11 July, while in Scotland, he visits Burns Cottage, the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–96). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."Costa, Robert (2009-08-04). "Keats’s House, Restored". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-08-12. Archived 2009-08-15. but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returns him to thoughts of misery.Sidney Colvin Sidney Colvin John Keats On 2 August he climbs to the summit of Ben Nevis, on which he writes a sonnet.200 years ago Keats climbed Ben Nevis Keats 200 http://johnkeats200.co.uk/1818/200-years-ago-keats-climbed-ben-nevis/ 2018 2020-04-01 10 June – first performance of the opera Rob Roy MacGregor, William Henry Murray's adaptation of Walter Scott's 1817 novel Rob Roy, in Edinburgh;Burwick Frederick Playing to the Crowd London Popular Theater, 1780-1830 2011 Palgrave Macmillan New York 978-0230370654 121 https://books.google.com/books?id=NRTGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 Mrs Nicol plays "Jean McAlpine". 18 July – Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian, set during the Porteous Riots of 1736, is published (as Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham', in 4 volumes); a shipload from the Ballantyne publishing business is sent from Edinburgh to London.John Sutherland (author) John Sutherland How to be Well Read London Random House 2014 978-1-847-94640-9 214 18 September – the original Theatre Royal in Glasgow becomes the first theatre in Scotland to be lit by gas.London theatres had been gaslit the previous year. Theatres Compete in Race to Install Gas Illumination – 1817 http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/1817-18.pdf Over The Footlights 2014-05-20 James Barr composes a musical setting of the late Robert Tannahill's "Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea" which will later become the basis of the tune "Waltzing Matilda".O'Keeffe Dennis Waltzing Matilda: The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song 2012 Allen and Unwin Sydney 978-1-74237-706-3 Ludwig van Beethoven composes settings of Twenty-Five Scottish Songs. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1818 in Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Category:1810s in Scotland Scotland