1871 in Scotland

April 12, 2024

Events from the year 1871 in Scotland.

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7 March – the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4–1 win by Scotland over England.^[1]
26 May – Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.^[2]
1 August – the Arlington Swimming Club, designed by John Burnet, opens in the district of Charing Cross, Glasgow.
6 November – the Edinburgh Street Tramways Company begins operating horsecars, the first tram system in Scotland.^[3]
10 November – missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.^[2]
Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.^[4]
Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow.

Births edit

21 January – Ernest Kitto, cricketer in New Zealand (died 1897 at sea)
27 January – Samuel Peploe, painter (died 1935)
17 February
- John A. Gilruth, veterinary surgeon and colonial administrator (died 1937 in Australia)
- Peter Corsar Anderson, golfer (died 1955)
10 September – Thomas Adams, urban planner (died 1940)
12 September – John Campbell, international footballer (died 1947)
Lachlan Grant, physician (died 1945)
Thomas W. Lamb, theatre architect in the United States (died 1942)

Deaths edit

5 February – James Munro, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826)
17 March – Robert Chambers, publisher and geologist (born 1802)
20 April – Samuel Halkett, librarian (born 1814)
6 September – James Burns, shipowner (born 1789)
22 October – Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)^[5]

The arts edit

William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).^[6]
William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.^[7]

See also edit

References edit

^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 293–294. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ McLean, David (30 April 2013). "Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh Trams 1871-1956". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
^ Johnston, Ronald; McIvor, Arthur (2000). Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. p. 10. ISBN 1-86232-178-7.
^ Amodeo, Christian (June 2005). "Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods". Geographical.
^ Donaldson, William (2004). "Alexander, William (1826–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39241. Retrieved 19 August 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

April 12, 2024

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