From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of events
Events from the year 1831 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Spring – the 12th-century
Lewis chessmen are found in a sand-bank on the
Isle of Lewis .
19 –
21 March – one of
Goldsworthy Gurney ’s steam road coaches runs from Edinburgh to Glasgow.
[1]
May –
Wellington Suspension Bridge over
River Dee at
Aberdeen opened to all traffic.
10 May – first
steam locomotive to be built in Glasgow completed by Murdoch, Aitken & Co. for the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway .
[2]
Mid-May – mineral traffic over
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway commences.
[3]
1 June
6 June – first iron steamboat to be launched on the
River Clyde , Fairy Queen by John Neilson & Sons.
[5]
4 July – opening of first section of
Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway , from St Leonards to Craighall,
[6] including St Leonards Tunnel, Scotland's earliest tunnel on a public railway, and the early
cast iron bridge at Braid Burn (erected in March).
August – the
Dugald Stewart Monument in Edinburgh, designed by
W. H. Playfair , is completed.
1 August – the Roman Catholic
St Thomas's Church, Keith , is opened for worship.
27 September – formal opening of
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway : locomotive St Rollox hauls Scotland’s first steam-worked passenger train from the
Townhead terminus at Glasgow to Gartsherrie.
[3]
16 December – opening of first section of
Dundee and Newtyle Railway , the first public railway in the north of Scotland (horse worked).
[7]
23 December – the
second cholera pandemic (1829–51) reaches Scotland.
[8]
The
Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway opens as a
waggonway from
Johnstone to
Kilwinning .
[9]
Dunnet Head lighthouse , designed by
Robert Stevenson , is built.
North Church in
Aberdeen , designed by
John Smith , is opened.
The
Burns Monument, Edinburgh (on
Calton Hill ), is designed by
Thomas Hamilton .
William Wallace invents the
eidograph .
[10]
Glenugie distillery is established as Invernettie at
Peterhead by Donald McLeod;
[11]
Talisker distillery is built at
Carbost ,
Talisker, Skye , by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill.
Births
31 January –
Alexander Balmain Bruce , theologian (died
1899 )
February –
George Stewart , recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1868 in England)
31 March –
Archibald Scott Couper , organic chemist (died
1892 )
2 April –
David MacGibbon , architect (died
1902 )
26 April –
James Donaldson , classical scholar, educationalist and theological writer (died
1915 )
28 April –
Peter Tait , mathematical physicist (died
1901 )
7 May –
Richard Norman Shaw , architect (died 1912 in England)
28 May –
Richard B. Angus , financier (died
1922 in Canada )
13 June –
James Clerk Maxwell , physicist (died 1879 in England)
24 June –
Robert Wallace , writer and politician (died 1899 in England)
3 July –
Edmund Yates , writer (died 1894 in England)
18 July –
John Skelton , lawyer, author and administrator (died
1897 )
17 August –
John McLaren , politician and judge (died
1910 )
13 September –
Andrew Noble , physicist (died
1915 )
12 October –
Helen Acquroff , pianist, singer, poet and music teacher (died
1887 )
[12]
17 October –
Isa Craig , née Knox, poet (died 1903 in England)
23 November –
David MacKay , recipient of the Victoria Cross (died
1880 )
25 December –
John Bartholomew , cartographer (died
1893 )
Deaths
14 January –
Henry Mackenzie , novelist (born
1745 )
4 February –
William Ritchie , newspaper editor (born
1781 )
14 February –
Robert Brown , agriculturalist (born
1757 )
22 March –
William Symington , engineer and steamboat builder (born
1764 ; died in London)
May –
James Campbell , army officer (born
1745 )
1 July –
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald , industrial chemist (born
1748 ; died in Paris)
16 August –
Sir Hugh Innes , politician (born c. 1764)
17 August –
Patrick Nasmyth ,
landscape painter (born
1787 )
Joseph Lowe , economist
The arts
See also
References
^
The Glasgow Herald 25 March 1831.
^ The Glasgow Courier 12 May 1831.
^
a
b
c Martin, Don (1981). The Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway . Auld Kirk Museum Publications, no. 6. Strathkelvin District Libraries & Museums. pp. 14–19.
ISBN
0-904966-06-2 .
^ The Glasgow Courier 4 June 1831.
^ The Glasgow Herald 10 June 1831.
^
Thomas, John (1971). A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, volume VI : Scotland – the Lowlands and the Borders . Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 234.
ISBN
0-7153-5408-6 .
^
Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
ISBN
1-8526-0049-7 .
OCLC
19514063 . CN 8983.
^
"Chronology of Scottish History" . A Timeline of Scottish History . Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 30 July 2014 .
^ Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways: A short history of their origin and development 1801–1844 . London: The Locomotive Publishing Co. pp. 17–18.
OCLC
11064369 .
^ Waterston, Charles D.; Shearer, A. Macmillan (July 2006).
Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index (PDF) . Vol. 2.
Royal Society of Edinburgh . p. 964.
ISBN
978-0-902198-84-5 . Retrieved 23 January 2012 .
^ Halley, Ned (2005).
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink . Ware: Wordsworth Editions. p. 257.
ISBN
978-1-84022-302-6 . Retrieved 13 September 2008 .
^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women . Edinburgh University Press. p. 4.
ISBN
9781474436281 .
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century