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List of events
Events from the year 1843 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
The
Disruption Assembly, painted by
David Octavius Hill
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
18 May – the
Disruption of the
Church of Scotland takes place.
[1]
3 June – first burial in
Warriston Cemetery , Edinburgh.
29 June –
Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the
paddle steamer Vanguard , from his new yard at
Govan on the
River Clyde .
[2]
1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens in Glasgow.
13 August – Sir William Dunbar, priest of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, is excommunicated from the
Scottish Episcopal Church for refusing to administer or receive the sacrament in accordance with the church's ritual.
Dingwall becomes the county town of
Ross and Cromarty .
The last laird of
Raasay , John Macleod, emigrates to
Tasmania having sold the Scottish island to George Rainy to help clear his debts.
[3]
The
Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of
Wigtownshire .
[4]
The
Glenmorangie distillery is established in
Tain by William Matheson.
Glenburn Hydro is opened in
Rothesay, Bute , the first
hydropathic establishment in Scotland.
First
paddle steamer on
Loch Katrine , Gypsy .
Little Ross lighthouse completed.
Angus MacKay becomes first
Piper to the Sovereign .
Marion Kirkland Reid 's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh.
Births
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
^
"Victorian Britain" .
BBC . Retrieved 30 July 2013 .
^
"PS Vanguard" . Clydebuilt database . Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016 . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
link )
^
Keay, John ; Keay, Julia (1994),
Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland , London: HarperCollins, p. 797,
ISBN
978-0-00-255082-6
^ 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 .
^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (11 September 2002).
Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . Routledge. p. 786.
ISBN
978-1-134-65019-4 .
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