1802 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1802 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1802 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- January â Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.
- 2 October â first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
- 10 October â the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.
- November â the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".[1]
- The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair.
- The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.[2]
- John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
- John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
- Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.
Births
- 1 April â William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
- 20 May â David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
- 10 July â Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
- 16 July â Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
- 20 August â Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
- 24 August (bapt.) â John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
- 28 August â Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
- 19 September â Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
- 10 October â Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
- Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)
Deaths
- 21 January â John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
- 26 February â Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
- John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)
- Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)
The arts
- 29 January â Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.[3]
- Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication by James Ballantyne in Kelso.[4]