1889 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1889 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1889 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1888â89 ⢠1889â90
Timeline of Scottish history
1889 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1888â89 ⢠1889â90
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 26 January â Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.[1][2][3]
- 5 February â the first issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
- 11 March â baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.
- 24 April â William Henry Bury is hanged in Dundee for uxoricide.
- 15 July â the Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.[4]
- 26 August â the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, receives royal assent. School fees abolished for compulsory education.
- 5 September â Mauricewood Colliery disaster: a fire at the pit near Penicuik kills 63 of the 70 men and boys working underground.[5]
- 1 November â new building under construction at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.
- November - King's Cross Hospital opens in Dundee.[6]
Births
- 7 January â George Samson, sailor, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at sea 1923)
- 30 May â Isobel Wylie Hutchison, explorer (died 1982)
- 20 July â John Reith, broadcasting executive (died 1971)
- 11 August â Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (died 1964)
- 25 September â Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer (died 1930)
- 1 December â Alexander Keiller, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died 1955)
- John Munro (Iain Rothach), Gaelic poet (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
- 31 May â Horatius Bonar, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born 1808)
- 24 December â Charles Mackay, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born 1812)
The arts
- Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Mystery of Cloomber is published.
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is published.
- The Great Scottish National Panorama (Battle of Bannockburn) is opened in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.