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Events from the year 1818 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Alexander Maconochie
- Solicitor General for Scotland — James Wedderburn
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General — The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Boyle
Events
- 4 February — The Honours of Scotland are put on display in Edinburgh Castle after being discovered in store there;[1] Walter Scott, one of the prime movers in the discovery, is rewarded with a baronetcy in 1820.
- 3 March — Construction of the Union Canal begins at the Edinburgh end.[2]
- 19 March — Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh, designed by William Burn, dedicated.
- Mid-May — Paddle steamer Thames makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde to Dublin.[3]
- 13–14 June — Rob Roy makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde to Belfast.[4]
- New road bridge at Spean Bridge completed to a design by Thomas Telford.[5]
- First public supply of gas in Glasgow.
- Robert Barclay founds the engineering company in Glasgow that will become marine engineers Barclay Curle.
- Shipbuilder Thomas Morton of Leith invents the patent slip.
- Robert Stirling builds the first practical version of his Stirling engine.
- Restoration of the great house at Rosehall begins, to assist which a private canal is dug.[6]
- The post of Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow, is established by King George III, Robert Graham, MD, being the first holder; Thomas Thomson takes up his appointment as first Regius Professor of Chemistry here.
Births
- 21 February — George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
- 10 March — William Menelaus, mechanical engineer (died 1882 in Wales)
- 17 May — William Hay, architect (died 1888)
- 11 June — Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
- 22 June — Donald Mackenzie, advocate and judge (died 1875)
- 22 July — Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887)
- 5 August — Thomas Elder, pastoralist, businessman, racehorse breeder, politician and philanthropist in Australia (died 1897 in Australia)
- 23 August — John Cairns, Presbyterian divine (died 1892)
- 25 September — Helen Macfarlane, radical writer (died 1860)
- 3 October — Alexander Macmillan, publisher (died 1896)
- 24 October — William Forsyth, writer (died 1879)
- 7 December — John Blackwood, publisher (died 1879)
- Andrew Leslie, shipbuilder
- Alexander McLachlan, poet (died 1896 in Canada)
Deaths
- 13 February — George Dempster of Dunnichen, advocate, agricultural improver, banker and politician (born 1732)
- 15 March — Hector Macneill, poet (born 1746)
- 6 November — Malcolm Laing, historian (born 1762)
- 7 December — Mary Brunton, novelist (born 1778)
The Arts
- June — English poet John Keats begins a walking tour in Scotland, including a visit to Burns Cottage.
- 10 June — First performance of the opera Rob Roy MacGregor, William Henry Murray's adaptation of Walter Scott's 1817 novel Rob Roy, in Edinburgh;[7] Mrs Nicol plays "Jean McAlpine".
- 18 July — Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian, set during the Porteous Riots of 1736, is published (as Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham', in 4 volumes); a shipload from the Ballantyne publishing business is sent from Edinburgh to London.[8]
- 18 September — The original Theatre Royal in Glasgow becomes the first theatre in Scotland to be lit by gas.[1][9]
- James Barr composes a musical setting of the late Robert Tannahill's "Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea" which will later become the basis of the tune "Waltzing Matilda".[10]
- Ludwig van Beethoven composes settings of Twenty-Five Scottish Songs.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ↑ Spratt, H. Philip (1958). The Birth of the Steamboat. London: Charles Griffin. pp. 95–7.
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ↑ "Spean Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
- ↑ Forbes, N.; Howat, J. M. T. (2002). "The Rosehall Canal: The Most Northerly in Great Britain?". Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society. 34: 38–9.
- ↑ Burwick, Frederick (2011). Playing to the Crowd London Popular Theater, 1780-1830. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 121. ISBN 0230370659.
- ↑ Sutherland, John (2014). How to be Well Read. London: Random House. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-847-94640-9.
- ↑ London theatres had been gaslit the previous year. "Theatres Compete in Race to Install Gas Illumination - 1817" (PDF). Over The Footlights. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ↑ O'Keeffe, Dennis (2012). Waltzing Matilda: The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song. Sydney: Allen and Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74237-706-3.
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