1802 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1802 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Events
- January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.
- 2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
- 10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.
- November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".[1]
- The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair.
- The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.[2]
- John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
- John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
- Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.
Births
- 1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
- 20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
- 10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
- 16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
- 20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
- 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
- 28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
- 19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
- 10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
- Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)
Deaths
- 21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
- 26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
- John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)
- Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)
The arts
- 29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.[3]
- Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication anonymously by James Ballantyne in Kelso.[4]
See also
References
- "History". The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- Shaw, A. Batty (July 1968). "The oldest medical societies in Great Britain". Medical History. 12 (3): 232–244. doi:10.1017/s0025727300013272. PMC 1033825. PMID 4875610.
- Mackay, James (2004). Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns. Darvel: Alloway Publishing. p. 688. ISBN 978-0-907526-85-8.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
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