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List of events
Events from the year 1839 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
January – the first
parallax measurement of the distance to
Alpha Centauri is published by
Thomas Henderson .
[1]
29 May –
Mungo Ponton presents his discovery of the light-sensitive quality of
sodium dichromate as a method of permanent
photography .
[2]
10 June – Major
Chartist meeting on
Glasgow Green .
[3]
15 June –
David Clark , the first emigrant ship to sail directly from Great Britain to
Port Phillip sets out from
Greenock under the command of Capt. J. B. Mills, with mainly Scots assisted immigrants, arriving in Australia on 27 October.
[4]
15 July – first
clipper ship launched in Britain, the
schooner
Scottish Maid at
Alexander Hall 's yard in
Aberdeen .
[5]
August – National
Chartist organisation set up in Scotland.
[6]
30 August – the
Eglinton Tournament , a recreation of a medieval
tourney , takes place at
Eglinton Castle ,
North Ayrshire .
October –
earthquakes across Scotland.
[7]
City of Glasgow Bank established.
James Templeton 's textile company is established at
Bridgeton, Glasgow .
Consumer cooperatives established in
Galashiels and
Hawick , predecessors of the
Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society .
[8]
Decision of the
House of Lords on appeal in the Auchterarder case that the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 's Veto Act of
1835 is invalid.
[9]
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl , revives the
Atholl Highlanders as a personal bodyguard.
Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established in
Edinburgh .
Roderick Murchison publishes The Silurian System .
Claimed invention of the rear-wheel driven bicycle by
Kirkpatrick Macmillan .
[10]
Births
4 January –
Anne Jane Cupples , née Douglas, writer (died
1896 )
13 February –
William Arrol , civil engineering contractor (died
1913 )
17 March –
John Pettie , painter (died
1893 )
26 March –
John Mackay , pioneer in Australia (died
1914 in Australia )
4 April –
James Blyth , electrical engineer (died
1906 )
18 April –
Donald MacKinnon , Celtic scholar (died
1914 )
7 May –
Joseph Hunter , surveyor, civil engineer and politician in British Columbia (died
1935 in Canada )
10 June –
James Cleland , merchant and politician in Ontario (died
1908 in Canada )
17 May –
Alexander Davidson , architect in Australia (died
1908 in Australia )
23 August –
James Geikie , geologist (died
1915 )
8 September –
John Aitken , meteorologist (died
1919 )
21 October –
Joseph Tait , businessman and politician in Ontario (died
1911 in Canada )
30 October –
Flora Stevenson , social reformer (died
1905 )
3 November –
Aeneas James George Mackay , lawyer and historian (died
1911 )
17 November –
David Farquharson , landscape painter (died
1907 )
18 December –
William Grant , whisky distiller (died
1923 )
26 December –
Selina Murray McDonald Sutherland , nurse and social reformer in Australasia (died
1909 in Australia )
James Caldwell , politician (died
1925 )
Arthur Lloyd , music hall entertainer (died
1904 )
Charles Macintosh , folk music composer and performer and mycologist (died
1922 )
Alexander Provand , Liberal politician (died
1915 )
James Galloway Weir , businessman and Liberal politician (died
1911 )
Deaths
See also
References
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