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List of events
Events from the year 1819 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
14 May – the first all iron-hulled vessel, the barge
Vulcan , is launched on the
Monkland Canal at Faskine,
Airdrie for use as a horse-drawn passenger boat between Edinburgh and Glasgow on the
Forth and Clyde Canal .
[1]
13 June –
Highland Clearances :
Strathnaver clearances resume on the estates of the
Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland , enforced by
factor
Patrick Sellar with burning of crofts.
[2]
[3]
August – three ships set out from
Oban carrying migrants to Canada.
17 August –
1 October – English poet
Robert Southey joins civil engineer
Thomas Telford on a tour of his Scottish projects.
[4] A replacement
Highbridge near
Spean Bridge , designed by Telford, is built this year.
18 August –
Regent Bridge , Edinburgh, opened.
[5]
September –
Thomas Chalmers becomes first minister of
St John's Parish Church in Glasgow where he puts into practice his model evangelical ideas for alleviating the material and spiritual poverty generated by industrialisation by fostering independence through personal contact, parochial care and the establishment of schools.
[6]
The publisher
Collins is founded as a printer of religious literature in
Glasgow by
William Collins .
W. & R. Chambers , established by brothers
William Chambers of Glenormiston and
Robert Chambers in
Edinburgh , begin publishing.
The
Ordnance Survey begins mapping in Scotland, in the south west, although this survey will be aborted.
[7]
Brora distillery is established as "Clynelish" by the
Marquess of Stafford at
Brora .
First pump room opened at the
spa town of
Strathpeffer .
Births
22 January –
Hugh McColl , pioneer of irrigation (died
1885 in Australia )
25 January –
Gideon Lang , settler (died
1880 in Australia )
28 March –
William Cross Yuille , settler (died
1894 in Australia )
10 April –
James Logan , lawyer (died 1869 in
Penang )
27 April –
William Muir , Orientalist and colonial administrator (died
1905 )
26 May –
George Thomson , missionary and botanist (died 1878 in
Cameroon )
2 July –
George Young, Lord Young , judge (died
1907 )
3 July –
William Smith ,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (died
1892 )
14 July –
Benjamin Blyth , civil engineer (died
1866 )
22 July –
John Murdoch , evangelist and educationalist (died
1904 in India )
30 July –
John Campbell Shairp , man of letters (died
1885 )
2 August –
William Walls , lawyer and industrialist (died
1893 )
25 August –
Allan Pinkerton , private detective (died
1884 in the United States )
3 September –
Alexander Campbell Fraser , philosopher (died
1914 )
7 September –
Aeneas William Mackintosh , Liberal politician (died
1900 )
6 November –
Charles James Campbell , merchant and politician in
Nova Scotia (died
1906 in Canada )
13 November –
Peter Sinclair , farmer and politician in
Prince Edward Island (died
1906 in Canada )
28 November –
Walter Montgomerie Neilson , steam locomotive manufacturer (died
1889 )
James Cassie , painter (died
1879 )
James Miln , antiquary (died
1881 )
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
^ Walker, Fred M. (2010).
Ships & Shipbuilders: Pioneers of Design and Construction . Barnsley: Seaforth. p. 65.
ISBN
9781848320727 . Retrieved 15 March 2016 .
^
"Chronology of Scottish History" . A Timeline of Scottish History . Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 21 May 2014 .
^
Prebble, John (1963). The Highland Clearances . London: Secker & Warburg.
^ Southey, Robert (1929).
Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819 . London:
John Murray . Retrieved 21 May 2014 .
^
"Edinburgh, Waterloo Place, Regent Bridge" .
Canmore .
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland . 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2014 .
^ St John's – Renfield Church . 1969.
^ Fleet, Christopher; Withers, Charles W. J.
"Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape" . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 5 September 2014 .
^
"James Watt | Biography, Inventions, Steam Engine, Significance, & Facts | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 14 May 2023 .
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