1876 in Scotland

Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.

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14 February â Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.^[1]
19 February â Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.^[2]
5 April â River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
18 June â promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh;^[3] this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park.
17 October â St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.^[4]
3 November â McLean Museum opens in Greenock.^[5]
William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.

23 March â Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
13 April â Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959)
19 June â Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
6 September â John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
3 October â Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
22 October â Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States)
4 November â Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
7 November â Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
17 December â Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
18 December â Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955)
Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)