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List of events
Events from the year 1789 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 10 July – Scottish explorer
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the
Mackenzie River delta in North America.
- November – foundation stone for
Old College, University of Edinburgh, laid.
- December – steamboat experiments on the
Forth and Clyde Canal by
Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.
- The original
lighthouses at
Eilean Glas on
Scalpay, Outer Hebrides, and
Dennis Head Old Beacon on
North Ronaldsay,
Orkney, are completed by
Thomas Smith.
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Robert Adam designs a new house at
Newliston.
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Andrew Duncan delivers the first lectures on
forensic medicine in
Britain, at the
University of Edinburgh.
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- The
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society is founded by
James McGrigor and James Robertson.
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Robert Burns is appointed an
exciseman.
- New pump room for
St Bernard's Well, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, designed by painter
Alexander Nasmyth.
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John Ainslie completes and publishes his 9-sheet map of Scotland.
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Flax mill established at
Old Deer.
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Clyde Model Dockyard is established as a toyshop in Glasgow.
Births
- 5 January –
Thomas Pringle, writer, poet and abolitionist (died
1834)
- 28 February –
David Duncan, Presbyterian minister (died
1829)
- 1 March –
John Ramsay McCulloch, economist (died 1864 in London)
- 17 August –
William Knox, poet and journalist (died
1825)
- 12 October –
William Collins, publisher (died
1853)
- 30 October –
Michael Scott, author (died
1835)
- 9 November –
Robert Pearse Gillies, poet and writer (died 1858 in London)
- November –
Peter Miller Cunningham, naval surgeon and pioneer in Australia (died 1864 in Greenwich)
- 3 December –
Archibald Robertson, physician (died 1864 in Bristol)
- 20 December –
William Burn, architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (died
1870)
- 23 December –
George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, Tory politician (died
1858)
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Thomas Wright, prison visitor (died 1875 in Manchester)
Deaths
Sport
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