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List of events
Events from the year 1820 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
13 March –
Clan Grant raid on
Elgin in a disputed election to the town council.
April –
Dundee Lunatic Asylum officially opened.
[1]
1–2 April – a proclamation, signed "By order of the Committee of Organisation for forming a Provisional Government", is distributed in the Glasgow area, beginning the "
Radical War " in Scotland. The following day, around 60,000 – particularly weavers – stop work across a wide area of central Scotland.
5 April – Radical War: "Battle of
Bonnymuir " – troops capture radicals near
Bonnybridge .
[2]
8 April – Radical War: Radical prisoners from
Paisley are freed from jail in
Greenock after militia have killed eight of the crowd.
[2]
22 April –
Walter Scott is created 1st
baronet of
Abbotsford in the
County of Roxburgh in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom .
[3]
1 May –
Robert Owen 's Report to the County of Lanark, of a plan for relieving public distress and removing discontent (published 1821) is delivered.
26 July – opening of
Union Chain Bridge across the
River Tweed between England and Scotland, designed by
Captain Samuel Brown . Its span of 449 ft (137 metres) is the longest in the
Western world at this time, and it is the first
wrought iron vehicular
suspension bridge of its type in Britain.
[4]
30 August – Radical War: Radical leader
James Wilson , a
Strathaven weaver, is executed for treason on
Glasgow Green for his part in the rising.
[2]
8 September – Radical War: Radical leaders
John Baird and
Andrew Hardie are executed at
Stirling for their part in the rising at Bonnybridge.
[2]
10 October – thief
David Haggart murders the keeper of the
Dumfries
tolbooth while escaping imprisonment.
15 December –
PS Comet (
1812 ) is wrecked near
Craignish .
22 December–23 May 1821 – Radical War: Remaining prisoners are
transported from England to Australia on the
convict ship
Speke .
[2]
The
United Secession Church is established as a
Presbyterian denomination by union of various churches which have
seceded from the established
Church of Scotland .
Finishing of work on
Charlotte Square completes the first
New Town, Edinburgh .
Remainder of the
Nor Loch in Edinburgh is drained to form what will become
Princes Street Gardens .
The Edinburgh
botanical garden is moved to the
Inverleith site of the modern-day
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh .
Inveraray Jail and Courthouse opened.
The mineral
thomsonite is first discovered, in Scotland.
[5]
The
Edinburgh Phrenological Society is established.
John Walker sets up as a grocer and wine and spirits merchant in
Kilmarnock , from where he will sell the blended
Scotch whisky which will be branded as
Johnnie Walker .
The 6th Edition of the
Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
The
Scottish Cemetery at Calcutta is established in British India.
Approximate date
Births
4 April –
David Kirkaldy , engineer, pioneer of materials testing (died
1897 in England )
[6]
21 April –
Peter Kerr , architect (died
1912 in Australia )
1 May –
Henry Yule , orientalist (died 1889 in England)
24 May –
William Bruce Robertson , Presbyterian preacher (died
1886 )
29 June –
Patrick Stirling , locomotive engineer (died 1895 in
Doncaster )
5 July –
William John Macquorn Rankine , physicist (died
1872 )
6 August –
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , entrepreneur, statesman and philanthropist (died
1914 in Canada )
William Downie , gold prospector (died 1893 in North America)
James Mckenzie , outlaw in New Zealand (died after 1856 in Australia?)
Edward Wilson , railway civil and locomotive engineer (died 1877 in England)
Deaths
14 January –
Agnes Broun or Burnes, mother of
Robert Burns (born
1732 )
12 March – Sir
Alexander Mackenzie , explorer of Canada (born
1764 )
2 April –
Thomas Brown , philosopher (born
1778 ; died in London)
15 April –
John Bell , surgeon (born
1763 ; died in Rome)
4 September –
John Dunlop , merchant and miscellaneous writer (born
1755 )
6 September –
James Ferguson , lawyer, politician and landowner (born
1735 ; died in London)
11 October –
James Keir , geologist, chemist and industrialist (born
1735 ; died in Birmingham)
8 December –
Archibald Colquhoun , lawyer and politician (born c.1754)
The arts
See also
References
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