1813 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1813 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1813 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 1 April â whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.[1]
- 15 April â foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.[2]
- October
- Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.[citation needed]
- Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.[3]
- The first Kirkcaldy whaler, The Earl Percy, sails north to the Davis Strait.
- Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.
- Robert Owen obtains control of the cotton spinning mills at New Lanark and publishes A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character.
Births
- 30 January â George Gilfillan, writer and poet (died 1878)
- 18 March â
- Thomas Graham Balfour, physician (died 1891 in London)
- William Calder Marshall, sculptor (died 1894 in London)
- 19 March â David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (died 1873 in Africa)
- 13 April â Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician (died 1844)
- 14 May (bapt.) â John Hosack, lawyer and historian (died 1887 in London)
- 17 May? â Eliza Rennie, author
- 18 May â Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge (died 1896)
- 21 May â Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (died 1843)
- 27 May â William McNaught, steam engineer (died 1881 in Manchester)
- 21 June â William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet (died 1865)
- 28 July â James Newlands, municipal engineer (died 1871 in Liverpool)
- 10 August â Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer (died 1872 in London)
- 6 September â Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist (died 1889 in London)
- 10 September â Angus MacKay, piper (died 1859)
- 13 September â Daniel MacMillan, publisher (died 1857)
- 30 September â John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician (died 1893 in London)
- November â John Stuart, antiquarian (died 1877)
- 13 December â
- James R. Ballantyne, orientalist (died 1864)
- David Brandon, architect (died 1897)
- George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1900 in Canada)
- 18 December â John Edgar Gregan, architect (died 1855 in Manchester)
- John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong (died 1907)
- James Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor (died 1895 in Hastings)
- Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (died 1876)
- Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (died 1884)
- John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian (died 1900)
- William Logan, temperance campaigner (died 1879)
- Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada (died 1854)
- Daniel M'Naghten, assassin (died 1865 in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum)
- George Tosh, metallurgist (died 1900 in Scunthorpe)
Deaths
- 5 January â Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian (born 1747)
- 15 February â Francis Home, physician (born 1719)
- 15 March â Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet (born 1759)
- 15 April â Alexander Murray, linguist (born 1775)
- 22 June â Allan Burns, surgeon (born 1781)
- 8 July â William Craig, Lord Craig, judge (born 1745)
- 23 August â Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America (born 1766)
- 11 October â Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator (born 1755)
- 28 October â William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter (born 1753?)
The arts
- James Hogg's poem The Queen's Wake is published.[4]