1830 in Scotland

Events from the year 1830 in Scotland.

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19 March â The suspension bridge at Montrose partly collapses due to movement of a crowd watching a boat race from it, with the loss of at least 4 lives.^[1]
17 May â A meteorite falls on the North Inch at Perth.^[2]
27 May â Rev. Alexander Duff arrives in Calcutta as the Church of Scotland's first missionary to India.
13 July â Alexander Duff co-founds the General Assembly's Institution, the modern-day Scottish Church College, in Calcutta.
November â Wellington Suspension Bridge over the River Dee at Aberdeen is opened to pedestrians.
16 December â Bridge of Don at Aberdeen is opened.^[3]
Twin-hulled iron paddle steamer Lord Dundas built for service on the Forth and Clyde Canal.^[4]
McVitie's founded as McVitie & Price's biscuit bakery in Rose Street, Edinburgh.
Annandale distillery opened and Talisker distillery founded.
Sheep dip is invented by George Wilson of Coldstream.^[5]

Early â Andrew Halliday, journalist and playwright (died 1877 in London)
5 February â Lieutenant General James John McLeod Innes, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1907)
5 March â Charles Wyville Thomson, marine zoologist (died 1882)
15 March â John Ferguson, politician (died 1906 in Australia)
5 April
- (probable date) Robert Francis Fairlie, steam locomotive designer (died 1885 in London)^[6]
- Alexander Muir, songwriter (died 1906 in Canada)
16 July â Alexander Carnegie Kirk, mechanical engineer (died 1892)
3 September â Lewis Campbell, classicist (died 1908 in Switzerland)
21 September â John Holms, textile mill owner and Liberal politician (died 1891)
22 October â Arthur John Burns, woollen mill owner and politician in Otago (died 1901 in New Zealand)
30 October â Eliza Brightwen, naturalist (died 1906 in England)^[7]
John Crawford, sculptor (died 1861)

14 January â The Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh (born 1766, near Dublin)
20 February â Robert Anderson, literary editor, biographer and critic (born 1750)
7 April â Henry Bell, engineer who introduced the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe (born 1767)
3 July â John Campbell, advocate and politician (born 1798)
16 December â Sir James Donaldson printer and newspaper publisher, who bequeathed a large part of his estate to the founding of Donaldson's Hospital (born 1751)

Thomas Aird publishes his narrative poem The Captive of Fez.^[8]
Sir Walter Scott publishes the plays Auchindrane and The Doom of Devorgoil.
David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV
Completion of publication of the Edinburgh EncyclopÃ¦dia, commenced in 1808
16 December â Felix Mendelssohn completes composition of his concert overture The Hebrides as Die einsame Insel ("The Lonely Island").