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List of events
Events from the year 1846 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- January – African American abolitionist
Frederick Douglass arrives in Scotland from Ireland to continue his speaking tour of the United Kingdom.
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22 June – the
North British Railway is opened to public traffic between
Edinburgh and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first line to cross the border between
Scotland and England.
Edinburgh Waverley railway station is opened.
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15 August – inauguration of
Scott Monument in
Edinburgh.
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21 December – Scottish-born surgeon
Robert Liston carries out the first operation under anesthesia in Europe, at
University College Hospital in
London.
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- Start of
Highland Potato Famine.
- English tourism pioneer
Thomas Cook brings 350 people from
Leicester on a tour of Scotland.
[4]
- Lighthouses at
Covesea Skerries,
Chanonry Point and
Cromarty (all designed by
Alan Stevenson) first illuminated.
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New College, Edinburgh, opens its doors as a theological training college for the
Free Church of Scotland.
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Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore, commissions "the Paisley Sisters" of Strond on
Harris to weave
tweed in the
Clan Murray
tartan, origin of the commercial
Harris Tweed industry.
- Engineer
Robert William Thomson is granted his first
patent for a
pneumatic tyre, in France.
- 14-year-old
James Clerk Maxwell's first scientific paper is presented to the
Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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- The
Dewar's
Scotch whisky brand is created by
John Dewar, Sr.
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Charles William George St John's Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands is published.
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