1843 in Scotland
Events from the year 1843 in Scotland .
Incumbents
The Disruption Assembly, painted by David Octavius Hill
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
18 May – the Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.[ 1] Construction of the Triple Kirks in Aberdeen begins.
3 June – first burial in Warriston Cemetery , Edinburgh.
29 June – Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the paddle steamer Vanguard , from his new yard at Govan on the River Clyde .[ 2]
1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens in Glasgow.
13 August – Sir William Dunbar, priest of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, is excommunicated from the Scottish Episcopal Church for refusing to administer or receive the sacrament in accordance with the church's ritual.
Dingwall becomes the county town of Ross and Cromarty .
The last laird of Raasay , John Macleod, emigrates to Tasmania having sold the Scottish island to George Rainy to help clear his debts.[ 3]
The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire .[ 4]
The Glenmorangie distillery is established in Tain by William Matheson.
Glenburn Hydro is opened in Rothesay, Bute , the first hydropathic establishment in Scotland.
First paddle steamer on Loch Katrine , Gypsy .
Little Ross lighthouse completed.
Angus MacKay becomes first Piper to the Sovereign .
Marion Kirkland Reid 's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh.
Births
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
^ "Victorian Britain" . BBC . Retrieved 30 July 2013 .
^ "PS Vanguard" . Clydebuilt database . Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016 .
^ Keay, John ; Keay, Julia (1994), Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland , London: HarperCollins, p. 797, ISBN 978-0-00-255082-6
^ Fleet, Christopher; Withers, Charles W. J. "Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape" . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 5 September 2014 .
^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (11 September 2002). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . Routledge. p. 786. ISBN 978-1-134-65019-4 .
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