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List of events
Events from the year 1815 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- February/March – foundation stone of
Montrose Academy laid.
[1]
[2]
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18 June –
Battle of Waterloo:
Ensign
Charles Ewart of the
Royal Scots Greys captures the
French Imperial Eagle standard.
[3]
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1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens.
[3]
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19 September – foundation stones for
Regent Bridge and Calton Jail in
Edinburgh laid.
[4]
- The
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on
Calton Hill, is dedicated.
-
Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and
Crockness Martello tower in
Orkney are completed.
-
Dunans and
Ferness Bridges and
Avoch harbour are completed to the designs of
Thomas Telford.
-
Glenfinnan Monument erected to mark the landing of "
Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the start of the
Jacobite rising of 1745 to the design of
James Gillespie Graham.
-
Armadale Castle on
Skye is built in the style of
Scottish Baronial architecture to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
- A Jury Court as a division of the
Court of Session is introduced.
[5]
-
Regius Professorships at the
University of Glasgow in
Midwifery and
Surgery are established by
King George III.
- The
Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first
mutual
life insurance office.
- On
Islay,
Ardbeg distillery begins commercial production and
Laphroaig distillery is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.
[6]
- The
Clyde Shipping Company is set up by John Henderson, William Croil, Donald McPhee and George Jardine Kidston to provide services by
paddle steamer.
-
Pringle of Scotland, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the
Borders.
- John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family
apothecary business in
Edinburgh, the predecessor of
MacFarlan Smith, and begins to manufacture
laudanum.
-
Aberdeen Savings Bank is formed.
Births
Deaths
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14 January –
William Creech, publisher and
Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born
1745)
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4 February –
John Ferriar, physician and writer (born
1761)
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9 February –
Claudius Buchanan, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born
1766)
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23 February –
William Duff, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born
1732)
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10 April –
William Roxburgh, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born
1751)
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26 August –
John Spalding, politician (born
1763)
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8 September –
Andrew Graham, naturalist
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28 September –
Gilbert Gerard, theological writer (born
1760)
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9 December –
Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, banker and steamboat promoter (born
1730)
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Thomas Keith, soldier (born c.1793)
The arts
See also
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