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List of events
Events from the year 1862 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
24 February –
St Abb's Head lighthouse first illuminated.
Butt of Lewis Lighthouse is also completed this year.
[1]
May – the 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of the
Flying Scotsman
express train , first departs from
London King's Cross railway station for
Edinburgh Waverley over the
East Coast Main Line .
1 June – the 10.00 a.m. passenger service, predecessor of the
Royal Scot express train, first departs from London
Euston railway station for Glasgow over the
West Coast Main Line .
[2]
July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's
PS Briton enters service on the first
Stranraer to
Larne ferry service.
[3]
28 August – the
Portpatrick Railway opens to
Portpatrick ; on 1 October it opens its branch to
Stranraer Harbour .
31 August – last
mail coach runs from
Carlisle to
Hawick .
[4]
20 September – SS Irishman runs aground on Skernataid Rock between the islands of
Raasay and
Scalpay, Inner Hebrides .
11 October – Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in the
Sandyford murder case in
Glasgow , is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
13 October –
Winchburgh rail crash : A head-on collision on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway kills 15.
18 December – "Day of the Great Drowning": 31 men, the entire crews of five fishing boats from
Ness, Lewis , are drowned in a storm.
[5]
Prime gilt, a
duty levied by
Trinity House of Leith on goods coming into the port, is abolished.
Henry Littlejohn becomes Edinburgh's first
Medical Officer of Health , serving until 1908.
David Kirkaldy publishes Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Comparative Tensile Strength and other properties of various kinds of Wrought-Iron and Steel in Glasgow describing his pioneering work in
tensile testing .
Bishop
Robert Eden is elected
Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church , an office he will hold until his death in
1886 .
Establishment of
Anderson High School (Shetland) in
Lerwick .
Tom Morris, Sr. wins
The Open Championship at
Prestwick Golf Club ,
Ayrshire .
[6]
First
Aberdeen Angus
herd book created.
Inverewe Garden created by
Osgood Mackenzie in
Wester Ross .
Births
Deaths
See also
References
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