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1800
Events from the year 1800 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
thumb|250px|McDowall's & Co. mills at Milton of Campsie in 1800Stoddart John 1800 Remarks on local Scenery and Manners in Scotland William Miller London 206 (facing)
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 Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove
Events
1 January – Robert Owen becomes manager of the New Lanark spinning mills.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-08-25
15 February – "Meal mob" riot over bread prices in Glasgow.http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glasgow/glasgow3_44.htm The History of Glasgow, Volume 3 Chapter XLIV: War with France Electric Scotland 2014-08-27
30 June – Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November.
August – the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot is first mustered by William Wemyss at Strathnaver; in September they are sent from Fort George via Aberdeen to Guernsey and in October formally gazetted into the British Army.
Royal Cornhill Hospital established as Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum.
Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.http://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/monklands.htm Coatbridge & Airdrie 2009-12-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080723173034/https://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/monklands.htm 2008-07-23
New bridges built at Thurso and WickCaithness and Sutherland Hugh Fraser Campbell Cambridge University Press 1920 67 and Sir John Sinclair plans development of Thurso.
Approximate date
Planned village and pier at Inchyra in the Carse of Gowrie built.John R. Hume The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland. II: The Highlands and Islands London Batsford 1977 0-7134-0809-X 280
Preston Hall, Midlothian, completed.
Births
12 January – Duncan McLaren, Liberal politician (died 1886)
23 February – William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874 on the Isle of Wight)
10 April (bapt.) – George Moir, lawyer (died 1870)
16 April – William Chambers, publisher (died 1883)
17 April – Catherine Sinclair, novelist (died 1864 in London)
22 April – Ralph Robb, Free Church minister in Canada (died 1850 in Canada)
26 April – Elizabeth Sinclair, born Eliza McHutcheson, pioneer in Pacific colonies (died 1892 in Hawaii)
4 May – John McLeod Campbell, Reformed theologian (died 1872)
11 July – Charles Lees, portrait painter (died 1880)
3 September – James Braidwood, firefighter (killed firefighting 1861 in London)
14 October – Charles Neaves, judge and poet (died 1876)
24 October – Alexander Gibson, surgeon and forest conservator in India (died 1867)
Leitch Ritchie, writer (died 1865 in London)
Deaths
30 January – William Forsyth, merchant (born 1722)
16 March – David Doig, educator and writer (born 1719)Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 0-902-198-84-X https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf 18 February 2016 24 January 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf dead
8 April – James Stuart-Mackenzie, politician and astronomer (born c.1719)
27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)
30 December – Duke Gordon, librarian (born 1739)
The arts
14 June – Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.
27 November – Walter Scott's first original poems, "Glenfinlas" and "The Eve of St. John", are published.
The Works of Robert Burns is published posthumously.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
See also
1800 in Great Britain
References
Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland
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