1877 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1877 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1876â77 ⢠1877â78
Timeline of Scottish history
1877 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1876â77 ⢠1877â78
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 24 April â six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.[1]
- 16 October â the Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.[2]
- 22 October â Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.[3]
- 3 December â the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.
- Ex-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant tours his ancestral Scotland.[4]
- The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.[5]
- Cluny Harbour at Buckie is built.
- Wick Harbour breakwater is washed away in a storm for a second time.
- Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
- Manufacture of linoleum at Kirkcaldy begins.[6]
- Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.[7]
- A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.
Births
- 25 February â John Tait Robertson, international footballer (died 1935)
- 12 May â William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician (died 1959)
- 7 August â Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, painter (died 1931)
- 9 November â Helen Crawfurd, suffragette and communist activist (died 1954)
- 26 November â Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (suicide 1924)
Deaths
- 2 January â Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1810)
- 3 February â James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder and Liberal MP (1859â74) (born 1805)
- 14 April â Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (born 1834)
The arts
- William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet (according to his own account).[8]
- Robert Louis Stevenson's first published works of fiction appear in magazines.