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List of events
Events from the year 1869 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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5 January – Scotland's oldest professional
Association football team,
Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
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13 January – the story magazine
The People's Friend is first published in
Dundee; it will continue to be published by
D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
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27 March – the
Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at
Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in
Aberdeen.
[1]
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13 September – the
Solway Junction Railway is opened for
iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the
Solway Firth.
- October – the '
Edinburgh Seven', led by
Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the
University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).
[2]
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22 November – the
clipper ship
Cutty Sark is launched in
Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.
[3]
- The
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at
St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull,
Perth (built 1866-8), the first
Roman Catholic
monastery established in Scotland since the
Reformation.
[4]
- Construction of
Inverness Cathedral is finished.
- An Episcopal chapel from
St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to
Buckhaven and re-erected there.
[5]
- The
Caledonian Brewery is established in
Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
-
Thomas McCall of
Kilmarnock builds two
velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.
[6]
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Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.
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