1800 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1800 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1800 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1800 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January â Robert Owen becomes manager of the New Lanark spinning mills.[2]
- 15 February â "Meal mob" riot over bread prices in Glasgow.[3]
- 30 June â Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November.
- August â 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.[4]
- New bridges built at Thurso and Wick[5] and Sir John Sinclair plans development of Thurso.
- Approximate date
- Planned village and pier at Inchyra in the Carse of Gowrie built.[6]
- Preston Hall, Midlothian, completed.
Births
- 12 January â Duncan McLaren, Liberal politician (died 1886)
- 23 February â William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874 on the Isle of Wight)
- 10 April (bapt.) â George Moir, lawyer (died 1870)
- 16 April â William Chambers, publisher (died 1883)
- 17 April â Catherine Sinclair, novelist (died 1864 in London)
- 22 April â Ralph Robb, Free Church minister in Canada (died 1850 in Canada)
- 26 April â Elizabeth Sinclair, born Eliza McHutcheson, pioneer in Pacific colonies (died 1892 in Hawaii)
- 4 May â John McLeod Campbell, Reformed theologian (died 1872)
- 11 July â Charles Lees, portrait painter (died 1880)
- 3 September â James Braidwood, firefighter (killed firefighting 1861 in London)
- 14 October â Charles Neaves, judge and poet (died 1876)
- 24 October â Alexander Gibson, surgeon and forest conservator in India (died 1867)
- Leitch Ritchie, writer (died 1865 in London)
Deaths
- 30 January â William Forsyth, merchant (born 1722)
- 16 March â David Doig, educator and writer (born 1719)[7]
- 8 April â James Stuart-Mackenzie, politician and astronomer (born c.1719)
- 27 December â Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)
- 30 December â Duke Gordon, librarian (born 1739)
The arts
- 14 June â Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.
- 27 November â Walter Scott's first original poems, "Glenfinlas" and "The Eve of St. John", are published.
- The Works of Robert Burns is published posthumously.[8]