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List of events
Events from the year 1816 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- April –
Highland Clearances:
Factor
Patrick Sellar is tried but acquitted at Inverness of
culpable homicide during the mass expulsion of
crofting tenants from
Strathnaver in
1814.
[1]
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21 May –
Highland Society of London (established 1778) incorporated by Act of Parliament.
-
18 June – causeway, bridge and sluice across
Loch Fleet at The Mound, designed by
Thomas Telford, completed.
-
13 August – an
earthquake in
Inverness is the strongest ever in Scotland.
[2]
-
1 September – the
Northern Lighthouse Board's new light on the
Isle of May, designed by
Robert Stevenson, is completed.
[3]
- The
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on
Calton Hill, is completed.
- Logie Bridge at
Ferness completed to a design by Telford;
[4] as also is the bridge at
Contin and the harbour at
Portmahomack.
-
Suspension footbridge erected over the
Gala Water in
Galashiels
[5] and upper arch bridge at
Rumbling Bridge completed.
-
David Brewster discovers stress
birefringence.
- Rev.
Robert Stirling obtains a U.K.
patent for the
Stirling
hot air engine.
-
Lagavulin distillery established on
Islay.
-
St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, is completed as the city's first post-Reformation Roman Catholic church (architect:
James Gillespie Graham).
- First Jewish community in Edinburgh in modern times established.
- The
Edinburgh Races and Caledonian Hunt are held for the first time at
Musselburgh Racecourse rather than on the sands of
Leith.
[6]
[7]
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