1860 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1860 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1860 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 15 September â King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
- October â the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
- 17 October â the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).[1]
- 21 December â St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated.[2]
- Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
- Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.[3]
- Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.
Births
- 6 March â Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia (died 1934)
- 7 March â John Duncan Watson, civil engineer (died 1946 in Birmingham)
- 22 March â John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
- 15 April â Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
- 2 May
- John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
- 9 May â J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
- 30 May â Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
- 3 July â William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
- 31 July â George Warrender, admiral (died 1917 in London)
- 3 August â William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France (died 1935 in Twickenham, England)
- 19 August â John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States)
- 25 September â John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (died 1908 in France)
- 21 November â James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
- 26 November â James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (died 1932)
- James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
- James Miller, architect (died 1947)
Deaths
- 27 January â Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
- 25 March â James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
- 1 April â William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
- 25 August â William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
- James Barr, composer (born 1779)