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List of events
Events from the year 1886 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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8 March – The
Orr Ewing Baronetcy, of
Ballikinrain in the parish of
Killearn in the
County of Stirling and of Lennoxbank in the parish of
Bonhill in the
County of Dunbarton, is created in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom for
Conservative politician
Archibald Orr-Ewing.
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15 March –
Glasgow City and District Railway, running chiefly in "cut and cover" tunnel, opens.
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5 April – the
Great North of Scotland Railway opens its line through
Garmouth, Moray, including its Speymouth viaduct over the
River Spey with a 350 ft (105 m) main span which is the longest
wrought iron arch bridge in Britain.
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6 May –
International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art opens in
The Meadows, Edinburgh. Exhibits include an "Old Edinburgh Street" and displays related to
Scotch whisky;
Neilson and Company of Glasgow exhibit the
Caledonian Railway Single
steam locomotive.
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17 May –
Motherwell F.C. founded.
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25 June –
Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act grants security of
tenure to
crofters.
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27 July – in the
general election, radical socialist
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, standing as a
Liberal, wins the
North West Lanarkshire seat from the
Unionists.
- September – Lieutenant William Henn, R.N. of the
Royal Northern Yacht Club with
Galatea challenges unsuccessfully for the
America's Cup in
New York Harbor.
- October –
Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women founded by Dr.
Sophia Jex-Blake.
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6 December – the steel-hulled
full-rigged ship
Balclutha is launched at
Charles Connell and Company's yard at
Scotstoun for Robert McMillan of Dumbarton. In
1954 she will be laid up as a
museum ship in
San Francisco.
- The
paddle steamers Tewfik and Prince Abbas are built at the newly renamed
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at
Govan, the first purpose-built boats for
Thomas Cook & Son's
Nile service.
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Burmah Oil founded as the Rangoon Oil Company in Glasgow by
David Sime Cargill.
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Hawick Town Hall, designed by
James Campbell Walker, is completed.
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