1845 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1845 Events from the year 1845 in Scotland. Incumbents 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 31 July – Aberdeen Railway Bill receives Royal Assenthttp://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=26136&sID=10560 Aberdeen's Bridges over the Dee and Don Aberdeen City Libraries 2005 2014-06-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20140306213314/http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=26136&sID=10560 6 March 2014 dead dmy-all 14 August – the Falkirk Herald newspaper is first published October – Aberdeen stock exchange formed Glasgow Academy founded Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland in the Royal Mile Scottish Rights of Way Society established Publication of the New Statistical Account of Scotland is completed Publication of Robert William Billings' The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland begins. Births 8 January – James Stedman Dixon, leading coal-mine owner (died 1911) 14 February – Cecil Valentine De Vere, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player (died 1875) 25 February – George Reid, Prime Minister of Australia, later Member of Parliament (UK) (died 1918) 17 March – Robert Fleming, financier (died 1933) 28 October – Robert Gibb, painter (died 1932) 2 December – Alexander Crombie, surgeon (died 1906) David Forsyth, chess player (died 1909 in New Zealand) James Manson, locomotive engineer (died 1935) Deaths 7 August – Robert Graham, physician and botanist (born 1786) 30 September – Robert Forsyth, writer (born 1766) 26 October – Carolina Nairne, songwriter (born 1766) Sport Penicuik hosts the inaugural Grand Match in curling, between the north and the south of Scotland. See also Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1845 in Ireland References collapsed Scotland Category:1840s in Scotland Scotland