1817 in Scotland Events
25 January – The Scotsman Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren .[ 1] 1 March – suffocating fumes in the Leadhills lead mine kill seven.[ 2] 1 April – Blackwood's Magazine Edinburgh Monthly Magazine , a Tory publication. In October the publisher, William Blackwood , relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine .20 May – Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a Glasgow Botanic Garden .[ 3] June – Union Canal authorised.
10 July – David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope .[ 4] 15 October – school of whales seen in the Tay .November – Thomas Chalmers , in a sermon, appeals for a Christian effort to deal with the social condition of Glasgow.[ 5]
4 December – The Inverness Courier Christian Isobel Johnstone .Dingwall Canal completed.[ 6] A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow .
Dufftown founded by James Duff, 4th Earl Fife , in Moray .St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen , opened as St Andrew's Chapel within the Episcopal Church.Calton Gaol, Edinburgh, completed.
Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh , demolished.Glasgow Botanic Gardens created.Corsewall Lighthouse , designed by Robert Stevenson , first illuminated.[ 7] Thomas Telford 's ferry piers at Invergordon and Inverbreakie are built.Bladnoch distillery founded by John and Thomas McClelland near Wigtown .Teaninich distillery founded by Hugh Munro at Alness .The post of Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow is established by King George III .
Approximate date – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway introduces into service The Duke , the first steam locomotive on a railway in Scotland. Births
February – Samuel Morison Brown , chemist, poet and essayist (died 1856 )
15 February – Robert Angus Smith , atmospheric chemist (died 1884 )28 February – Walter Hood Fitch , botanical artist (died 1892 )9 April – Alexander Thomson , Greek Revival architect (died 1875 )29 April – Adam White , zoologist (died 1878 )17 May
22 May – James Macaulay , physician and literary editor (died 1902 )1 June – David Lyall , botanist (died 1895 )16 June – Alexander Forbes , bishop of Brechin (died 1875 )25 August – William Graham , wine merchant, art patron and Liberal politician (died 1885 )8 September – Stephen Hislop , Free Church missionary and geologist (died 1863 in India)16 September – William Smith , architect (died 1891 )21 September – John Allan Broun , magnetologist (died 1879 )12 October – William Collins , publisher, Lord Provost of Glasgow and temperance activist (died 1895 )17 October – Alexander Mitchell , banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician (died 1887 in the United States )29 October – Angus Macmillan , shipbuilder and politician on Prince Edward Island (died 1906 in Canada )4 December – Thomas Thomson , military surgeon and botanist (died 1878 in India)10 December – Alexander Wood , physician and inventor of the hypodermic syringe (died 1884 )John Millar, Lord Craighill , Solicitor General (died 1888 )Approximate date – Marion Kirkland Reid , feminist (died 1902?) References
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