1869 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Timeline of Scottish history
1869 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â James Moncreiff until October; then George Young
- Solicitor General for Scotland â George Young; then Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary
Events
- 5 January â Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
- 13 January â the story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
- 27 March â the Japanese ironclad RyÅ«jÅ is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.[1]
- 13 September â the Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1-mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- October â the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees there).[2]
- 22 November â the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.[3]
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866â8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.[4]
- Inverness Cathedral (Scottish Episcopal Church) is opened for worship as the first new Protestant cathedral to be completed in Great Britain since the Reformation.[5]
- An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.[6]
- The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.[7]
- Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.
Births
- 14 January â Dennis Eadie, character actor (died 1928)
- 26 January â George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
- 14 February â Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
- 17 April â Robert Robertson, chemist (died 1949)
- 11 June â Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)
Deaths
- 11 July â William Jerdan, journalist (born 1782)
- 20 September â George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (born 1803; suicide)