1883 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1883 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit | edit source]Law officers
[edit | edit source]Judiciary
[edit | edit source]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
[edit | edit source]- 20 January – Fenian dynamite campaign: In Glasgow, bombs explode at Tradeston Gasworks, Possil Street Bridge and Buchanan Street railway station; about a dozen people are injured.[1][2]
- 28 April – the first rugby sevens tournament is played at Melrose RFC.[3]
- 3 June – Sabbatarian riot at Stromeferry: the local fishing community prevent the loading of fish (caught by east coast fishermen) from Stornoway ships to railway on a Sunday.[4]
- 3 July – SS Daphne sinks on launch at Alexander Stephen and Sons' Linthouse shipyard, leaving 124 dead.[5]
- 29 August – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library in the world, is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline.[6]
- 4 October – the Boys' Brigade is founded in Glasgow.[7]
- November–December – the Tay Whale (a humpback) appears in the Firth of Tay; on 31 December it is harpooned but escapes, dying later.
- Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank at Dumbarton completed.
- Edinburgh Mathematical Society founded.
Sport
[edit | edit source]- Curling
- Scotland's first boys' club is established in Wanlockhead.
- Rugby union
- Scotland take part in the inaugural Home Nations Championship.
- Scotlands first home international game played at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh.
- First match against Wales, hosted at St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea; Scotland win by three goals to one.
Births
[edit | edit source]- 17 January – Compton Mackenzie, author and co-founder in 1928 of the Scottish National Party (born in England; died 1972)
- 27 January – James Lithgow, industrialist (died 1952)
- 24 March – Dorothy Campbell, golfer (died 1945 in the United States)
- 12 April – Francis Cadell, Colourist painter (died 1937)
- 15 May – Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, British Army officer and Unionist politician (killed in action 1915 in France)
- 5 June – Mary Helen Young, nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (died 1945 in Germany)[8]
- 9 July – John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (died 1944)
- 21 August – Victor Fortune, British Army officer (died 1949)
- 17 October – A. S. Neill, educationalist (died 1973 in England)
- 17 December – David Powell, stage and silent film actor (died 1925 in the United States)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- 27 March – John Brown, royal servant (born 1826)
- 8 May – John Miller, civil engineer (born 1805)
- 20 May – William Chambers, publisher and politician (born 1800)
- 2 July – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (born 1810)
- 9 August – Robert Moffat, missionary (born 1795)
- David Rhind, architect (born 1808)
The arts
[edit | edit source]- James Guthrie paints A Hind's Daughter and To Pastures New.
See also
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