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List of events
Events from the year 1818 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
13 January – Torgoyle Bridge in
Glenmoriston is swept away by an exceptional flood event.
[1]
4 February – the
Honours of Scotland are put on display in
Edinburgh Castle after being discovered in store there;
[2]
Walter Scott , one of the prime movers in the discovery, is rewarded with a
baronetcy in 1820.
17 February – the remains of King
Robert the Bruce found at
Dunfermline Abbey .
[3]
3 March – construction of the
Union Canal begins at the
Edinburgh end.
[4]
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 .
[5]
13–14 June – Rob Roy makes the first steamboat passage from the Clyde to
Belfast .
[6]
New road bridge at
Spean Bridge completed to a design by
Thomas Telford .
[7]
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.
[8]
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
The arts
June–August – English poet
John Keats with his friend
Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of
Scotland , Ireland and the English
Lake District . On July 11 while in Scotland he visits
Burns Cottage , the birthplace of
Robert Burns (1759–96). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."
[10] but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returns him to thoughts of misery.
[11] On August 2 he climbs to the summit of
Ben Nevis , on which he writes a sonnet.
[12]
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;
[13]
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.
[14]
18 September – the original Theatre Royal in
Glasgow becomes the first theatre in Scotland to be lit by gas.
[2]
[15]
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 ".
[16]
Ludwig van Beethoven composes settings of
Twenty-Five Scottish Songs .
See also
References
^ 9th report of the Parliamentary Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges, April 1821.
^
a
b
"Chronology of Scottish History" . A Timeline of Scottish History . Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 18 May 2014 .
^
"Dunfermline celebrates discovery of Robert the Bruce remains" . Scotsman . Retrieved 25 February 2018 .
^
"History of Edinburgh" . Visions of Scotland . Archived from
the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2014 .
^ 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 9 August 2014 .
^ Forbes, N.; Howat, J. M. T. (2002). "The Rosehall Canal: The Most Northerly in Great Britain?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society . 34 : 38–9.
^ Royle, Trevor (2012).
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature . Random House. p. 92.
ISBN
9781780574196 .
^ Costa, Robert (2009-08-04).
"Keats’s House, Restored" .
The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2009-08-12.
Archived 2009-08-15.
^
Colvin, Sidney . John Keats .
^
"200 years ago Keats climbed Ben Nevis" . Keats 200 . 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2020 .
^ Burwick, Frederick (2011).
Playing to the Crowd London Popular Theater, 1780-1830 . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 121.
ISBN
978-0230370654 .
^
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 20 May 2014 .
^ 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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