1871 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1871 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1871 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: ⢠1871â72
Timeline of Scottish history
1871 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: ⢠1871â72
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 7 March â the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4â1 win by Scotland over England.[1]
- 26 May â Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.[2]
- 1 August â the Arlington Swimming Club, designed by John Burnet, opens in the district of Charing Cross, Glasgow.
- 6 November â the Edinburgh Street Tramways Company begins operating horsecars, the first tram system in Scotland.[3]
- 10 November â missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.[2]
- Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.[4]
- Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow.
Births
- 21 January â Ernest Kitto, cricketer in New Zealand (died 1897 at sea)
- 27 January â Samuel Peploe, painter (died 1935)
- 17 February
- John A. Gilruth, veterinary surgeon and colonial administrator (died 1937 in Australia)
- Peter Corsar Anderson, golfer (died 1955)
- 10 September â Thomas Adams, urban planner (died 1940)
- 12 September â John Campbell, international footballer (died 1947)
- Lachlan Grant, physician (died 1945)
- Thomas W. Lamb, theatre architect in the United States (died 1942)
Deaths
- 5 February â James Munro, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826)
- 17 March â Robert Chambers, publisher and geologist (born 1802)
- 20 April â Samuel Halkett, librarian (born 1814)
- 6 September â James Burns, shipowner (born 1789)
- 22 October â Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)[5]
The arts
- William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).[6]
- William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.[7]