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List of events
Events from the year 1866 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
January? –
The Oban Times begins publication as a weekly newspaper.
31 March –
The Caithness Courier begins publication as a newspaper in
Thurso .
2 April –
Thomas Carlyle gives his inaugural address as
Rector of the University of Edinburgh .
19 May – the first part of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, a predecessor of the
National Museum of Scotland , is opened.
[1]
June – City of Glasgow Improvements Act provides for
urban renewal .
11 August – Lodge Kelburne No. 459 founded in
Millport, Cumbrae .
[2]
16 September –
Willie Park wins his third
Open Championship , at
Prestwick Golf Club .
[3]
17 October –
Ballater railway station opens to the public as the terminus of the
Deeside Railway ; on 20 & 24 September the
Prince and
Princess of Wales were able to use the station.
"Cox's Stack" or "Lumb", the 282 ft (86 m)-tall chimney of Cox Brothers'
Camperdown Works (a
jute mill ) and a notable landmark of
Dundee , is completed.
[4]
Duncraig Castle near
Plockton is built for
Alexander Matheson by
Alexander Ross .
The
Denholm Group is established by John Denholm of
Greenock as a shipping agency.
Samurai
Yamao Yōzō , one of the
Chōshū Five , begins 2 years studying marine engineering in Glasgow.
The last
Kirkcaldy
whaler , The Brilliant , is sold to
Peterhead .
Births
5 February –
Arthur Keith , anatomist and anthropologist (died
1955 )
6 May –
Murdoch Macdonald , civil engineer and
Liberal politician (died
1957 )
6 June –
John Stirling-Maxwell ,
Conservative politician and philanthropist (died
1956 )
19 July –
John Duncan , symbolist painter (died
1945 )
12 October –
Ramsay MacDonald , first
Labour
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died
1937 )
4 November –
Jane Findlater , novelist (died
1946 )
30 November –
Robert Broom , paleontologist (died
1951 in South Africa )
Dorothea Ruggles-Brise , née Stewart-Murray, collector of traditional Scottish music (died 1937)
Archie Simpson , golfer and course designer (died
1955 in the United States )
Deaths
The arts
David Octavius Hill 's painting The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 is completed.
See also
References
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