1884 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1884 Events from the year 1884 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff Events 26 January – Scotland beat Ireland 5-0 in the first match of the first British Home Championship in Association football.http://www.myfootballfacts.com/ScottishNationalTeamResults1872to1899.html Scotland International Matches 1872 to 1899 MyFootballFacts 2014-04-26 15 March – Scotland beat England 1-0 in their second match of the British Home Championship. 29 March – Scotland beat Wales 4-1 to win the first British Home Championship. 28 April – Napier Commission delivers the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.The Napier Commission University of the Highlands and Islands https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-history/research/the-napier-commission/ 2021-03-11 20 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210420092226/https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-history/research/the-napier-commission/ dead 12 June – Pier terminal opened at Rothesay, Bute.The Opening of the New Waiting Rooms on the Pier Rothesay Chronicle 1884-06-14 3 1 July – First International Forestry Exhibition opens at Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh,The Forestry Exhibition The Morning Post London 1884-07-02 3 during which an electric railway is demonstrated. 17 July – Barque Vicksburg of Leith goes aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Skerries with the loss of nine lives; twelve are saved by the island's lighthouse keepers.http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/pentland.htm Northern Lighthouse Board Edinburgh Pentland Skerries 2009 Lighthouse Library 2016-03-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20091116111613/http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/pentland.htm 16 November 2009 dead Autumn – Origin of St Johnstone F.C. in Perth. 2 November – Fourteen people are killed when some of the audience at the Star Theatre, Glasgow, panic following a false fire alarm.Terrible Panic in a Glasgow Theatre The Cornishman 329 6 November 1884 7 11 November – Blackford Hill is acquired by the city of Edinburgh.The purchase of the Blackford Hill Edinburgh Evening News 1884-10-01 2 18 November – Crofters War: Royal Marines and police arrive in naval ships at Uig, Skye, following an unsuccessful attempt to evict tenants engaging in a rent strike against Major William Fraser, owner of the Kilmuir Estate and Uig Tower.Local history http://www.uig-isleofskye.com/stories.htm Uig - Isle of Skye 2014-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20150319033553/http://www.uig-isleofskye.com/stories.htm 19 March 2015 usurped 1 December – Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway opens to passengers. 6 December – Representation of the People Act 1884 extends the franchise to many crofters.Crowley D. W. The Crofters' Party – 1885 to 1892: The first British independent common people's political party http://www.caledonia.org.uk/land/documents/Crofters%27%20Party.pdf 2017-04-24 Teacher's Highland Cream blended whisky registered. Births 11 February – Joseph Westwood, Labour MP (1922–31 and 1935–48) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1945–1947) (died 1948) 24 February – William Theodore Heard, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church (died 1973 in Rome) 22 May – Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, suffragist and feminist (died 1957 in England)Ewan Elizabeth Pipes Rose Rendall Jane Reynolds Siân The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women Edinburgh University Press 9781474436281 3 28 August – Peter Fraser, Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1940–1949) (died 1950 in New Zealand) Deaths 26 February – Alexander Wood, physician, inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe (born 1817) 30 November – Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Principal of the University of Edinburgh (born 1826 in the United States) 20 December – William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (born 1808) Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (born 1813) The arts Publication of Songs of the North by Harold Boulton and Anne MacLeod including the first known version of "The Skye Boat Song". See also Timeline of Scottish history 1884 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1880s in Scotland Scotland