Scottish History Time-line (Late 19th Century; 1850-99)

Note that, within a single year, events are not necessarily presented in chronological order.

	Previous Period
c.1850	Hagdale Horse Mill (Shetland) Opened
1850	Allan Glen died - Philanthropist
1850	Dr. Thomas Neill Cream born - The Waterloo Poisoner
1850	Ewan MacPhee died - Outlaw, known as Scotland's last bandit
1850	Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey) died - Lawyer, critic and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review
1850	George Goudie Chisholm born - Influential Geographer
1850	George Manson born - Painter
1850	Glover House (Aberdeen City) Built
1850	James Thom (The Ayrshire Sculptor) died - Sculptor, who lived in Ayr
1850	Kilmarnock Railway Viaduct (East Ayrshire) Opened
1850	New College (City of Edinburgh) Built
1850	Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson) born - Author and literary critic
1850	Robert Stevenson died - Engineer
1850	Sir George Thomas Beilby born - Industrial chemist
1850	Sir Thomas Lipton born - Grocer and entrepreneur
1850	Sir William Allan died - Artist and traveller
1850	William Wordsworth died - Romantic Poet
1851	Charles Hope (Lord Granton) died - Jurist and politician
1851	David Macbeth Moir died - Author and Physician
1851	Donaldson's (West Lothian) Established
1851	Donaldson's College (City of Edinburgh) Built
1851	Erskine Beveridge born - Textile manufacturer and antiquary, noted for his archaeological investigations in the Hebrides
1851	Francis Hindes Groome born - Editor of the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland and eminent scholar of gypsy life and culture
1851	Francis Maitland Balfour born - Embryologist
1851	George Chrystal born - Mathematician and academic
1851	George Younger (1st Viscount Younger of Leckie) born - Politician and brewer
1851	James Alexander Haldane died - Evangelist
1851	James Hardie born - Entrepreneur
1851	Joanna Baillie died - Poet and dramatist
1851	John James Audubon (Jean Jacques Audubon) died - Ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator
1851	Loganlea Reservoir (Midlothian) Opened
1851	Lord John Hay died - Naval commander
1851	Prof. Henry Drummond born - Clergyman, academic and author
1851	Robert Laws born - Missionary
1851	Robert Saunders Dundas (2nd Viscount Melville) died - Politician, lawyer and First Lord of the Admiralty
1851	Robert Weir Allan born - Painter
1851	Shedden Park (Scottish Borders) Created
1851	Sir James McGrigor died - Military surgeon, credited with laying the foundations of the Royal Army Medical Corps
1851	Sir John Gladstone died - Merchant and politician
1851	The Macquarie Mausoleum (Argyll and Bute) Built
1851	Tommy Morris (Young Tom) born - Golfer
1851	William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles) born - Industrialist and philanthropist
1851	William Nicol died - Mineralogist and physicist
1851	Nitshill Mining Disaster
1852	(James) Macintyre Henry (J. Macintyre Henry) born - Architect
1852	(John) Hamilton Gillespie born - Father of Sarasota
1852	Captain Simon Fraser died - Fiddler, collector and composer of folk tunes
1852	Captain Sir Samuel Brown died - Civil engineer and naval commander
1852	James Fillans died - Sculptor, painter, poet and stone mason
1852	James Thomson born - Architect and engineer
1852	John Neilson Institute (Renfrewshire) Established
1852	John Ross Menzies born - Newsagent and wholesale publisher
1852	John Smith died - Aberdeen architect
1852	Lewis Chemical Works (Western Isles) Built
1852	Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum (East Lothian) Opened
1852	Robert Forrest died - Sculptor
1852	Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn born - Ship-owner, businessman and politician
1852	Sir William Ramsay born - Chemist
1852	Thomas Grainger died - Pioneering railway engineer
1852	Thomas Thomson died - Scientist
1852	William Maule of Panmure (1st Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar) died - Laird
1853	Alexander Petrie (The Clincher) born - A noted Glaswegian eccentric, The Clincher adopted his name because he knew he would always clinch (win) an argument
1853	Allan Glen's School (Glasgow City) Built
1853	Charles Scott Meik born - Civil Engineer
1853	Col. Alexander Abercromby died - Soldier and politician
1853	Colonel Gardiner's Monument (East Lothian) Erected
1853	Corn Exchange (East Lothian) Built
1853	David George Ritchie born - Philosopher
1853	Francis Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas (6th Earl of Wemyss; 4th Earl of March) died - Noble
1853	Frederick W. P. Wyndham born - Theatre impresario and actor
1853	Gerald William Balfour (2nd Earl of Balfour) born - Politician
1853	Institute of Geography (City of Edinburgh) Built
1853	James Chalmers died - Inventor
1853	John More Dick Peddie (John More Peddie) born - Architect
1853	Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald (Fighting Mac) born - Soldier
1853	Monikie Country Park (Angus) Opened
1853	Outlook Tower and Camera Obscura (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1853	Robert Mackenzie died - Trader
1853	Sir George Washington Browne born - Architect
1853	South Portland Street Suspension Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1853	St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral (Dundee City) Built
1853	William Collins died - Publisher
1853	William Gunion Rutherford born - Classicist and Headmaster of Westminster School
1854	Alexander Allan died - Captain and ship-owner
1854	Andrew Rutherfurd died - Advocate, judge and politician
1854	Archibald McLellan died - Coach-builder and patron of the arts
1854	Buchanan Castle (Stirling) Built
1854	Charles Black died - Publisher
1854	Davaar Lighthouse (Argyll and Bute) Built
1854	David Alan Stevenson born - Lighthouse engineer
1854	David Dunbar Buick born - Inventor and engineer
1854	Henry Thomas Cockburn (Lord Cockburn) died - Barrister, judge, historian and conservationist
1854	James Hall died - Advocate and amateur artist
1854	James Montgomery died - Poet
1854	James Paterson born - Artist
1854	John Clunies Ross died - Seaman, explorer and adventurer
1854	John Jeffrey died - Explorer and plant-hunter
1854	Lews Castle (Western Isles) Built
1854	Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart died - Soldier
1854	National Gallery of Scotland (Aberdeenshire) Opened
1854	North Ronaldsay Lighthouse (Orkney) Built
1854	Prof. John Wilson (Christopher North) died - Author, poet, critic and editor
1854	Prof. Robert Jameson died - Geologist and naturalist
1854	Sir (Michael) Hugh Shaw Stewart (8th Baronet of Greenock and Blackhall) born - Landowner and politician
1854	Sir Dugald Clerk born - Engineer and inventor
1854	Sir Patrick Geddes born - Regarded as the father of town planning
1854	Sir William Alexander Smith born - Founder of the Boy's Brigade
1854	Thomas Mackenzie died - Architect
1854	Victoria Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1854	William Mitchell died - Entrepreneur
1855	Andrew Melrose died - Tea merchant and grocer
1855	Andrew Usher died - Spirit merchant
1855	Annan Fine Art Gallery (Glasgow City) Opened
1855	Archibald Barr born - Engineer
1855	Arthur Melville born - Artist
1855	Balmoral Castle (Aberdeenshire) Built
1855	Charles Alexander Stevenson born - Lighthouse engineer
1855	Civil Registration Act comes into force
1855	David Isauld Bain born - Railway carriage designer
1855	Dorothy Wordsworth died - Poet and diarist
1855	Francis (Fra) Henry Newbery born - Director of the Glasgow School of Art and painter
1855	Inverness Railway Station (Highland) Opened
1855	James Gillespie Graham died - Architect
1855	James Thomson died - Editor and clergyman
1855	John Wilson (Old Jock) died - Marine artist
1855	Onesiphorous Tyndall-Bruce died - English barrister who became, through marriage, a noted figure in the history of Falkland
1855	Park Circus (Glasgow City) Constructed
1855	Robert Gemmell Hutchison born - Genre painter
1855	Sir George Ballingall died - Military surgeon
1855	St Andrews Museum (Fife) Built
1855	Stirling Railway Station (Stirling) Opened
1855	Ury House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1855	William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) born - Novelist, poet and biographer
1855	William York MacGregor born - Artist
1856	Admiral Sir John Ross died - Arctic explorer
1856	Alexander Mackay born - Entrepreneur
1856	Caledonia Road Church (Glasgow City) Built
1856	Dora Mina Erskine-Wemyss (Lady Grosvenor) born - Creator of the Wemyss School of Needlework
1856	Dr. (James) Pittendrigh MacGillivray born - Sculptor and poet
1856	Fountain Brewery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1856	George Don died - Botanist and plant collector
1856	Hugh Miller died - Born in Cromarty, Miller was a stone mason turned geologist, writer, journalist and religious reformer
1856	James Baillie Fraser died - Traveller, author and painter
1856	James Bremner died - Naval architect and engineer
1856	James Keir Hardie born - Radical Socialist
1856	James Lumsden died - Businessman and Lord Provost of Glasgow
1856	John Alexander Dewar (Lord Forteviot) born - Whisky Baron
1856	John Henry Lorimer born - Painter
1856	Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane (Viscount Haldane of Cloan) born - Politician, lawyer and philosopher who reformed the British Army
1856	Robert Reid died - King's architect and surveyor in Scotland
1856	Samuel Morison Brown died - Chemist and author
1856	Sir Hugh Thomas Munro born - Tabulator of Scotland's Munros
1856	Sir John Lavery born - Artist
1856	Sir William Beardmore (Baron Invernairn) born - Engineer and shipbuilder
1856	Sir William Hamilton died - Philosopher and educationalist
1856	St Andrew's Suspension Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1856	The McLellan Galleries (Glasgow City) Opened
1856	William Kinninmond Burton born - Engineer and amateur photographer
1856	William MacDonald Mackenzie died - Architect
1857	Andrew Watson born - Black footballer
1857	Augustine Henry born - Plant collector
1857	Britannia Panopticon Music Hall (Glasgow City) Built
1857	Cuddy Bridge (Scottish Borders) Opened
1857	Daniel Macmillan died - Publisher
1857	Dr. John Gunion Rutherford born - Canadian veterinary officer and politician
1857	Edward Theodore Salvesen born - Law Lord
1857	Holmwood House (East Renfrewshire) Built
1857	Holy Trinity Church (South Lanarkshire) Built
1857	James Duff (4th Earl of Fife) died - Soldier
1857	Marie Loftus born - Music-hall entertainer
1857	Marjory Kennedy-Fraser born - Collector, arranger and singer of Hebridean songs
1857	Ornsay Lighthouse (Highland) Built
1857	Prof. Andrew Ure died - Scientist
1857	Rev. Thomas Dick died - Author, clergyman, philosopher and astronomer
1857	Robert Noble born - Artist
1857	Rossie School (Angus) Established
1857	Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse (Argyll and Bute) Built
1857	Sir Robert Philip born - Medical scientist who pioneered the management of tuberculosis
1857	Trinity College (Glasgow City) Built
1857	Ushenish Lighthouse (Western Isles) Built
1857	Valley Cemetery (Stirling) Opened
1857	William (Willie) Fernie born - Golfer
1857	William Bald died - Engineer, surveyor and cartographer
1857	William Fife born - Yacht designer
1857	William Henry Playfair died - Architect
1857	William Younger born - Brewer
1857	Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming born - Astronomer
1858	Andrew Bonar-Law born - Politician and British Prime Minister
1858	Balfour Monument (East Lothian) Erected
1858	Bressay Lighthouse (Shetland) Built
1858	George Henry born - Artist, noted particularly for his landscape paintings
1858	Henry Mavor born - Electrical Engineer
1858	James Jardine died - Civil Engineer
1858	Joseph Thomson born - African explorer
1858	King James VI Golf Course (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1858	Lady Francis Balfour born - Suffragette and biographer
1858	Michael Nairn died - Floor-cloth manufacturer
1858	Muckle Flugga Lighthouse (Shetland) Built
1858	Out Skerries Lighthouse (Shetland) Built
1858	Park Church (Glasgow City) Built
1858	Reid Concert Hall (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1858	Robert Brown died - Botanist, who gave the name 'nucleus' to the structure which controls cells
1858	Robert Owen died - Social reformer and entrepreneur
1858	Sir David Yule born - Commercial baron
1858	Sir James Abercromby (1st Lord Dunfermline) died - Politician and lawyer
1858	Thomas Campbell died - Sculptor
1858	Thomas Hamilton died - Architect
1858	Torosay Castle (Argyll and Bute) Built
c.1859	Harperrig Reservoir (West Lothian) Opened
1859	Alexander James Adie died - Optician, instrument manufacturer and meteorologist
1859	Alexander Monro (Tertius) died - Anatomist
1859	Allan Robertson died - The first great golf professional
1859	Andrew Black born - Singer
1859	Annie Shepherd Swan born - Novelist
1859	Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland (City of Edinburgh) Built
1859	Charles Murray Cathcart (2nd Earl of Cathcart; Lord Greenock) died - Soldier and geologist
1859	Dr. James Esdaile (James Esdale) died - Early practitioner of hypnosis
1859	Dumfries Railway Station (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1859	George Slight born - Lighthouse engineer
1859	James Archibald Hood born - Coal Baron
1859	John (Johnnie) Walker died - Whisky Blender
1859	John Baird died - Architect
1859	Kenneth Grahame born - Author, born in Edinburgh
1859	Peter MacGregor Chalmers born - Church architect
1859	Rev. Dr. John Lee died - Academic who rose to become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
1859	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born - Author, spiritualist and creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859	Sir Francis Norie-Miller born - Insurance pioneer, who contributed much to the civic society of Perth
1859	Sir James Guthrie born - Painter
1859	St Aloysius' College (Glasgow City) Established
1859	St Vincent Street Church (Glasgow City) Built
1859	Thomas De Quincey died - Author and poet
1859	Wellington School (Midlothian) Established
1859	William Home Lizars died - Artist and engraver
1859	William Strang born - Artist
c.1860	Whitrope Tunnel (Scottish Borders) Opened
c.1860	William Hare died - Resurrectionist and Murderer
1860	Alexander Maconochie died - Geographer and penal reformer
1860	Andrew (Andra) Kirkaldy born - Golfer
1860	Archibald Thorburn born - Artist, who became known as Britain's best ornithological illustrator
1860	Arkleton (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1860	David Dale Owen died - A founder of the US Geological Survey
1860	Dr. Thomas Bassett Macaulay born - Canadian actuary, who became a generous philanthropist
1860	Edward Arthur Walton (E.A. Walton) born - Painter, who became one of the 'Glasgow Boys'
1860	George Hamilton-Gordon (4th Earl of Aberdeen) died - Politician and British Prime Minister
1860	George Rennie died - Artist, politician and governor
1860	Glengorm Castle (Argyll and Bute) Built
1860	Henry Moubray Cadell born - Scientist
1860	Hugh MacDonald died - Author, poet, naturalist and chartist
1860	Inauguration of the Open Golf Championship
1860	James Andrew Broun Ramsay (Marquis and 10th Earl of Dalhousie) died - Politician and statesman
1860	James Barr died - Composer
1860	James Braid died - Surgeon and pioneer in the field of hypnosis
1860	John Adrian Louis Hope (7th Earl of Hopetoun; 1st Marquis of Linlithgow) born - Politician
1860	John George Bartholomew born - Cartographer
1860	John Lizars died - Surgeon
1860	John Scott Haldane born - Respiratory physiologist
1860	Prof. Sir D'Arcy Thompson born - Renowned zoologist
1860	Sir George Simpson died - Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada, who became known as the father of the Canadian fur trade
1860	Sir James Matthew Barrie born - Author and playwright
1860	Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro-Ferguson (Viscount Novar of Raith) born - Governor-General of Australia
1860	Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane died - Soldier and astronomer
1860	Thomas Alexander died - Military physician
1860	Thomas Cochrane (10th Earl of Dundonald) died - Naval commander
1860	Westerkirk Library (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1860	William Tassie died - Glass engraver and portraitist
1861	Big Water of Fleet Viaduct (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1861	David Couper Thomson born - Publisher
1861	Field Marshal Douglas Haig (Earl Haig of Bemersyde) born - Military commander
1861	James Braidwood died - Pioneering fire-fighter
1861	Joseph Crawhall born - Painter
1861	Prof. William Cunningham died - Church leader and Calvinist theologian, noted for his keen intellect and strong principles
1861	Rear Admiral Robert Aitchison died - Naval commander
1861	Robert Bald died - Surveyor and mining engineer
1861	Robert Finnie McEwen born - Advocate, land-owner and patron of the arts
1861	Sir John Forbes died - Physician
1861	Sir William Burrell born - An eccentric ship-owner and compulsive collector of art and antiques
1861	The Queen's Well (Angus) Opened
1861	Thomas Nelson (Thomas Neilson) died - Publisher
1861	Torry Point Battery (Aberdeen City) Opened
1861	William Lyon Mackenzie died - Politician and radical
1862	Andrew Fisher born - Politician and Australian Prime Minister
1862	Butt of Lewis Lighthouse (Western Isles) Built
1862	Dr. Robert Knox died - Anatomist
1862	Elizabeth Crichton (Elizabeth Grierson) died - Founder of the Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries
1862	Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane born - Authoress and reformer
1862	Helen Bannerman born - Author
1862	Holburn Head Lighthouse (Highland) Built
1862	James Bowman Lindsay died - Born in Carmyllie, near Arbroath, Lindsay was a visionary and pioneer in the field of electricity
1862	Sir James Clark Ross died - Antarctic explorer
1862	Sir William Peck born - 'City Astronomer' and scientific instrument maker
1862	Vice Admiral Robert Wauchope died - Inventor and naval commander
1863	Alan Alexander Campbell Swinton born - Engineer
1863	Alexander Henry Rhind died - Egyptologist
1863	Angus Mor MacAskill (Aonghas Mor MacAsgaill) died - The Cape Breton Giant
1863	Ardvourlie Castle (Western Isles) Built
1863	Aviemore Station (Highland) Opened
1863	Balhousie Castle (Perth and Kinross) Built
1863	Broomhill Station (Highland) Opened
1863	Charles Wilson died - Architect
1863	Drummond Pleasure Ground (Stirling) Created
1863	Field Marshall Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde) died - Outstanding soldier
1863	James Andrew Anderson died - Banker
1863	James Bruce (8th Earl of Elgin; 12th Earl of Kincardine) died - Statesman
1863	James Smith died - Builder and architect
1863	Killiecrankie Viaduct (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1863	Neidpath Viaduct (Scottish Borders) Opened
1863	New Register House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1863	Polmaise Castle (Stirling) Built
1863	The Café Royal (City of Edinburgh) Built
1863	Tomnahurich Cemetery (Highland) Opened
1863	Violet Jacob born - Poet and author
1863	William Chadwell Mylne died - Engineer
1863	William Irvine born - Presbyterian evangelist
1863	William Robert Ogilvie-Grant born - Ornithologist
1864	Cameronians Monument (Dumfries and Galloway) Erected
1864	Catherine Sinclair died - Novelist and philanthropist
1864	Cosmo Gordon Lang (Baron Lang of Lambeth) born - Archbishop of Canterbury
1864	David Roberts died - Painter
1864	David Stow died - Education pioneer
1864	Edward Atkinson Hornel born - Artist, noted for his paintings of rural scenes
1864	Elizabeth Gordon (Duchess of Gordon, 'The Good Duchess') died - Noted for her charitable works
1864	Elsie Inglis born - A leading surgeon and suffragette
1864	James Frederick Ferrier died - Philosopher and academic
1864	James Pillans died - Academic
1864	John Ramsay McCulloch died - Economist
1864	Lady Emma Alice Margaret (Margot) Asquith (Margot Tennant; Countess of Oxford and Asquith) born - Society hostess and wit
1864	Leonard Horner died - Social reformer and geologist
1864	Monach Lighthouse (Western Isles) Built
1864	Neidpath Tunnel (Scottish Borders) Built
1864	Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis) born - Novelist and Journalist
1864	Prince Albert Statue (Perth and Kinross) Erected
1864	Rev. Dr. John Anderson died - Clergyman and scientist
1864	Riddings Viaduct (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1864	Sir (John) Ninian Comper born - Church architect
1864	Sir Alexander Grant (Sir Alexander Grant of Forres) born - Biscuit manufacturer, who is said to have invented the 'digestive'
1864	Sir John Watson Gordon died - Painter
1864	Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer born - An architect noted for his restoration of castles, and his promotion Arts and Crafts style in Scotland
1864	Sir Thomas (Tommy) Dewar (Lord Dewar) born - Whisky Baron
1864	Tay Viaduct (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1864	William (Willie) Park (Junior) born - Golfing champion, businessman and noted golf course designer
1864	William Baird died - Industrialist and politician
1864	William Campbell died - International trader and philanthropist
1865	Alan Stevenson died - Lighthouse Engineer
1865	Alexander Fraser died - Painter
1865	Balgray Reservoir (East Renfrewshire) Opened
1865	Balintore Castle (Angus) Built
1865	Castlemilk (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1865	Col. Patrick Stewart died - Engineer
1865	Frederick McAdam Cathcart died - Diplomat and soldier
1865	Inverewe Garden (Highland) Created
1865	James Beaumont Neilson died - Inventor and industrialist
1865	James Miranda Barry died - Army surgeon and, through deception, the world's first female doctor
1865	Last Public Execution in Scotland
1865	Leaderfoot Viaduct (Scottish Borders) Opened
1865	North Water Viaduct (Aberdeenshire) Opened
1865	Pullar House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1865	Sir John Richardson died - Naturalist and explorer
1865	Sir William Jackson Hooker died - Botanist and first Director of Kew Gardens (London)
1865	William (Willie) Dunn (Junior) born - Innovative golfer and golf-course designer, who is said to have had a profound effect on the development of the sport in the USA
1865	William Gillies (Liam Mac Gille Iosa) born - Nationalist
c.1866	Dunfermline Public Park (Fife) Created
1866	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born - English authoress and illustrator
1866	(James) Ramsay MacDonald born - Politician and British Prime Minister
1866	Archibald (Archie) Simpson born - Golfer and golf course designer
1866	Auskerry Lighthouse (Orkney) Built
1866	Buccleuch Parish Church (City of Edinburgh) Built
1866	Charles MacLaren died - Editor
1866	Church of St James the Great (Fife) Built
1866	Clunes Lodge (Perth and Kinross) Built
1866	Duncraig Castle (Highland) Built
1866	James Petrie Chalmers (J.P. Chalmers) born - Film and publishing entrepreneur
1866	Jane Welsh Carlyle died - Literary figure, whose intelligence, personality and wit made her one of the most fascinating women of her time
1866	John Graham Gilbert (John Graham) died - Portrait painter and colourist
1866	John McDouall Stuart died - Explorer and Surveyor of Australia
1866	Marion Angus born - Minor poet
1866	Norman Macleod died - Religious leader
1866	Old Royal Station (Aberdeenshire) Opened
1866	Peden's Stone (North Lanarkshire) Erected
1866	Robert Broom born - Palaeontologist
1866	Robert Dick died - Self-taught natural historian
1866	Robert Foulis died - Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor
1866	Sir John Stirling Maxwell born - Founder member of the National Trust for Scotland
1866	Sir Murdoch Macdonald born - Civil engineer and politician
1866	The Royal Museum (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1866	William Dick died - Pioneer of veterinary education in Scotland and founder of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Science
1866	William Thomson Neill born - Surveyor
1867	Alexander "Scottie" Alan born - 'King of the Arctic Trail' who began the sport of dog-sled racing in Alaska
1867	Alexander Brodie died - Sculptor
1867	Andrew Reid born - Industrialist
1867	Horatio McCulloch died - Landscape painter
1867	John Strachan died - First Bishop of Toronto
1867	Percy Sinclair Pilcher born - Engineer and pioneer of unpowered flight
1867	Robert Paterson born - Turriff farmer associated with the revolt against Lloyd George's National Health Insurance scheme
1867	Salisbury Green (City of Edinburgh) Built
1867	Sir John Auld Mactaggart of King's Park born - Builder and philanthropist
1867	Theatre Royal (Glasgow City) Built
1867	Thomas Binnie died - Builder, property developer and philanthropist
1867	William Speirs Bruce born - Oceanographer and Polar Explorer
1868	(James) Herbert MacNair born - Architect and designer
1868	Amhuinnsuidhe Castle (Western Isles) Built
1868	Andrew Strath died - Golf champion
1868	Arthur Anderson died - Ship owner
1868	Captain Robert Falcon Scott born - Antarctic explorer, who died returning from the South Pole in 1912
1868	Catherine Sinclair Monument (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1868	Charles Rennie Mackintosh born - Architect and designer
1868	Crieff Hydro (Perth and Kinross) Built
1868	Dr. John Crawfurd died - Colonial administrator and orientalist
1868	East Kilbride Station (South Lanarkshire) Opened
1868	General Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas died - Soldier
1868	Glasgow Climbing Centre (Glasgow City) Built
1868	Hairmyres Station (South Lanarkshire) Opened
1868	Hamish MacCunn born - Composer
1868	Henry Peter Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) died - Inventor, lawyer and politician
1868	James Connolly born - Irish nationalist and socialist
1868	Lochinch Castle (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1868	Prof. James David Forbes died - Physicist and traveller
1868	Sir David Brewster died - Physicist
1868	St Mary's Monastery (Perth and Kinross) Built
1868	Waverley Station (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1869	Auchencastle (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1869	Caledonian Brewery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1869	Dalmoak Castle (West Dunbartonshire) Built
1869	David Napier died - Marine engineer
1869	George Douglas Brown born - Author
1869	Glengarry Castle Hotel (Highland) Built
1869	James Alexander Gordon died - Admiral
1869	James Eckford Lauder died - Historical and landscape painter
1869	John Elder died - Marine engineer and ship-builder
1869	John Wheatley born - Socialist politician and leading 'Red Clydesider'
1869	Margaret Stuart Hamilton Tyndall-Bruce died - Heiress and landowner
1869	Penninghame House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1869	Rev. Patrick Bell died - Invented the reaping machine which was a direct precursor of the modern combine harvester
1869	Robert Scott Lauder died - Painter
1869	St Andrew's (Episcopal) Church (Scottish Borders) Built
1869	St Andrew's Cathedral (Highland) Built
1869	The Falconer Museum (Moray) Opened
1869	Thomas Graham died - Chemist
1869	Wallace Monument (Stirling) Erected
1869	William Henry (W.H.) Ogilvie born - Poet and writer
1869	William Reynolds died - One of the first winners of the Victoria Cross
1870	Alexander Handyside Ritchie died - Sculptor
1870	Broadstone Castle (Inverclyde) Built
1870	Cragganmore Distillery (Moray) Opened
1870	David Octavius Hill died - Pioneer of photography
1870	David Waterson born - Artist
1870	Edwin John Alexander born - Watercolourist
1870	Fettes College (City of Edinburgh) Established
1870	First Rugby International was played between Scotland and England
1870	Frederick (Freddie) Guthrie Tait born - Golfer
1870	Glenapp Castle (South Ayrshire) Built
1870	Hunterian Museum (Glasgow City) Built
1870	Inverness Victorian Market (Highland) Opened
1870	James Braid born - Golfer and gold course designer
1870	James Moffatt born - Ecclesiastical historian
1870	James Syme died - Surgeon
1870	John Anderson died - Merchant and banker
1870	Rev. Archibald Eneas Robertson (A. E. Robertson) born - Munro-bagger
1870	Rowbank Reservoir (Renfrewshire) Opened
1870	Sir Harry Lauder born - Singer and music hall entertainer
1870	Sir James Young Simpson died - Obstetrician and pioneer in the field of anaesthetics
1870	Smollett Fountain (West Dunbartonshire) Erected
1870	St Leonard's Hall (City of Edinburgh) Built
1870	The Old Sheriff Court (Falkirk) Built
1870	William Burn died - Architect
1870	William Schomberg Robert Kerr (8th Marquess of Lothian) died - Noble
1871	Albert Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1871	Alexander Keith Johnston died - Cartographer, publisher and geographer
1871	Andrew Bannatyne died - Politician, lawyer and businessman
1871	Balgay Cemetery (Dundee City) Opened
1871	Balgay Park (Dundee City) Created
1871	Clermiston Tower (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1871	George Udny Yule born - Pioneering statistician
1871	Glasgow Botanic Garden (Glasgow City) Created
1871	James Burns died - Ship-owner
1871	John George Stewart-Murray (8th Duke of Atholl) born - Military commander and politician
1871	John Wood died - Explorer
1871	Robert Chambers died - Publisher, author and natural philosopher
1871	Samuel John Peploe born - Impressionist painter, particularly noted for his still-life works
1871	Sir Roderick Impey Murchison died - Geologist and geographer
1871	The Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre (Scottish Borders) Built
1871	William Angus born - Scientist and politician
1871	William Paterson Turnbull died - American ornithologist
1872	Andrew Greig Barr born - Father of Irn Bru
1872	Ca' D'Oro (Glasgow City) Built
1872	Dean Edward Bannerman Burnett Ramsay died - Clergyman
1872	Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson born - English explorer and scientist
1872	George Balfour born - Engineer and politician
1872	Greig Institute (Fife) Built
1872	Greyfriars' Bobby (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1872	Gryfe Reservoirs (Inverclyde) Opened
1872	Mary MacDougal MacDonald died - Gaelic hymn-writer and poet
1872	Mary Somerville died - Mathematician and scientist, born in Jedburgh, the daughter of a naval officer (Vice-Admiral Sir William Fairfax)
1872	Prof. Alexander MacPhail born - Anatomist
1872	Rangers Football Club Founded
1872	Rev. Hew Scott died - Ecclesiastical editor
1872	Rev. Norman MacLeod died - Theologian, prodigious author and social reformer
1872	Scottish Football Association Founded
1872	Sir Alexander Gibb born - Civil engineer
1872	Sir David Baxter died - Textiles manufacturer and benefactor
1872	William John Macquorn Rankine died - Engineer and physicist
1872	William Miller died - The Laureate of the Nursery
1873	Charles Lawson died - Botanist and Traveller
1873	Culag Hotel (Highland) Built
1873	David Livingstone died - Explorer and medical missionary
1873	George Forrest born - Botanist
1873	Hagdale Horse Mill (Shetland) Closed
1873	Ibrox Stadium (Glasgow City) Opened
1873	James Robert Hope-Scott died - Tractarian and barrister
1873	James Stevenson (Baron Stevenson of Holmbury) born - Businessman and civil servant
1873	John Blackie died - Publisher and politician
1873	John Stuart Mill died - English utilitarian philosopher
1873	Louis Agassiz died - Geologist and zoologist
1873	Rev. Prof. Robert Smith Candlish died - Free Church leader
1873	Robert William Thomson died - Engineer and Inventor
1873	Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and St Finnan (Highland) Built
1873	Scottish Borders Campus (Scottish Borders) Built
1873	South Breakwater (Aberdeen City) Opened
1873	Thomas Bonnar died - Interior designer
1873	Thomas Guthrie died - Social reformer and founder of the Free Church
1873	Threave House (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1873	Town House (Aberdeen City) Opened
1873	Turnberry Lighthouse (South Ayrshire) Built
1874	Adam Black died - Publisher
1874	Alexander Dennistoun died - Cotton trader
1874	Altnabreac Station (Highland) Opened
1874	Dysart Parish Church (Fife) Built
1874	Fox Maule Ramsay (11th Earl of Dalhousie; 2nd Lord Panmure) died - Politician
1874	Granton Lighthouse (City of Edinburgh) Built
1874	Henry Glassford Bell died - Author and lawyer
1874	Henry Scott Riddell Monument (Scottish Borders) Erected
1874	James Gall died - Publisher and inventor of a system of print for the blind
1874	John Duncan Fergusson (J.D. Fergusson) born - Painter
1874	Katherine Marjory Murray (Duchess of Atholl; Marchioness of Tulliebardine) born - Politician
1874	Neil Arnott died - Inventor, natural philosopher and physician
1874	Robert W. Service born - Poet and author
1874	Sir Hugh Roberton born - Conductor and composer
1874	Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston born - Academic, diplomat and tutor to the last Emperor of China
1874	Sir William Fairbairn died - Engineer
1874	Sir Winston Churchill born - Prime Minister, wartime leader and outstanding orator
1874	Smith Art Gallery & Museum (Stirling) Opened
1874	Stephen Mitchell died - Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist
1874	The Earthquake House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1874	The Fountain (Perth and Kinross) Erected
1874	Thomas Anderson died - Organic chemist
1874	William Alexander Agnew born - Mechanical engineer
c.1875	A. Stewart Cruikshank born - Theatre impresario
1875	Alexander 'Greek' Thomson died - Architect
1875	Daniel Lizars died - Engraver, printer and publisher
1875	General Sir James Hope Grant died - Soldier
1875	John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) born - Author, biographer and politician
1875	John Matthew born - Architect
1875	Longmore House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1875	Rev. John Wilson died - Missionary, who made significant contributions to the study of Indian languages and literature
1875	Sir Charles Lyell died - Influential geologist
1875	Sir William Edmond Logan died - Geologist
1875	Southfield House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1875	Suspension Bridge (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1875	Tommy Morris (Young Tom) died - Golfer
1875	Wanlockhead Beam Engine (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1876	(John) Rooke Corbett born - Mountaineer
1876	Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus born - Broadway actress, singer and mimic
1876	Christian (Chris) Jane Fergusson (Christian Stark; Christina Stark) born - Artist
1876	David Bryce died - Architect
1876	George Hay (8th Marquess of Tweeddale) died - Soldier
1876	George Manson died - Painter
1876	James Baird died - Foundryman and industrialist
1876	James Eric Drummond (16th Earl of Perth) born - Diplomat and politician
1876	Patrick Shirreff died - Farmer and pioneer of cereal hybridisation
1876	Prince Albert Memorial (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1876	Robert Napier died - Engineer and pioneer of ship-building on the River Clyde
1876	Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley born - Railway engineer
1876	Sir John Gilmour born - Politician
1876	Sir Muirhead Bone born - Artist
1876	Tiree High School (Argyll and Bute) Established
1876	Vogrie House (Midlothian) Built
1876	Dee Ferry Boat Disaster
1877	Alexander Bain died - Inventor
1877	Anna Buchan (O. Douglas) born - Author
1877	Captain Alexander Rodger died - Sea captain and adventurer
1877	David Urquhart died - Diplomat, who brought the 'Turkish Bath' to Britain
1877	Dr. Robert Lee died - Pioneering gynaecologist
1877	Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Luke (Glasgow City) Built
1877	James Ballantine (James Ballington) died - Artist, poet and author
1877	James Merry died - Industrialist and politician
1877	Mitchell Library (Glasgow City) Established
1877	Prof. Charles Glover Barkla born - Physicist and Nobel laureate
1877	Robert Dale Owen died - Social reformer and anti-slavery campaigner
1877	Sir William Ferguson died - Surgeon
1877	The Glasgow Academy (Glasgow City) Built
1877	The Mitchell Theatre (Glasgow City) Built
1877	Wemyss School of Needlework (Fife) Opened
1877	William Alexander Baxter born - Entrepreneur
1877	William Beardmore died - Engineer
1877	William Douglas Weir (1st Viscount Weir) born - Industrialist
1877	First Blantyre Mining Disaster
1878	(Richard) Harold Barnwell born - Aircraft pioneer
1878	Alistair Forbes-Mackay born -
1878	Ardoe House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1878	Bishop's Palace (Highland) Built
1878	David Cousin died - Architect
1878	Drumintoul Lodge (Highland) Built
1878	Dunblane Hydro (Stirling) Built
1878	George Paul Chalmers (G.P. Chalmers) died - Painter, described as the Angus Rembrandt
1878	Isabella (Tibbie) Shiels died - Inn-keeper and Borders worthy
1878	John T. Rochead died - Architect
1878	Kilmarnock Railway Station (East Ayrshire) Opened
1878	Kirkpatrick Macmillan died - Inventor
1878	Morningside Cemetery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1878	Percy Unna born - Environmentalist and philanthropist
1878	Samuel Bough died - Influential watercolourist
1878	Sir Francis Grant died - Painter
1878	Sir George Gilbert Scott died - English architect
1878	Sir James Matheson died - Trader and entrepreneur
1878	Sir William Stirling Maxwell died - Art connoisseur and collector
1878	Thomas Thomson died - Naturalist, explorer and plant-hunter
1878	William (Willie) Law Anderson born - Golfer, who dominated the game in the USA in the first decade of the 20th C
1879	(Alexander) Keith Johnston died - Geographer, explorer and publisher
1879	(George) Leslie Hunter born - Painter and landscapes and still-life
1879	Alexander James Adie died - Railway engineer
1879	Central Station (Glasgow City) Opened
1879	Eric Campbell born - Actor
1879	Francis Cadell died - Explorer
1879	James Black born - Clergyman
1879	James Clerk Maxwell died - Mathematician and physicist
1879	James Duff (5th Earl of Fife) died - Born in Edinburgh
1879	James Valentine died - Photographer and publisher
1879	John Menzies died - Bookseller and newsagent
1879	Kay Park (East Ayrshire) Created
1879	St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral (City of Edinburgh) Built
1879	Strathpeffer Spa Pavilion (Highland) Built
1879	Thomas Clapperton born - Sculptor
1879	William Maxwell Aitken (1st Lord Beaverbrook) born - Newspaper tycoon and politician
1879	Second Blantyre Mining Disaster
1879	Tay Bridge Disaster
1880	Alexander Thompson died - Soldier
1880	Craiglockhart Campus (City of Edinburgh) Built
1880	David Hutcheson died - Ship owner
1880	Donald Crisp born - Actor, film director and producer
1880	Easter Road Park (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1880	Francis George Scott born - Composer
1880	George Brown died - Politician and a founding father of Canada, born and educated in Edinburgh
1880	HM Prison Barlinnie (Glasgow City) Built
1880	Harperleas Reservoir (Fife) Opened
1880	John Boyd Orr (Lord Boyd Orr of Brechin) born - Nutritionist and Nobel Prize winner
1880	Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes born - Social Reformer, author, suffragette and scientist
1880	Preston Watson born - Pioneer of flight
1880	Robert (Bertie) Charles Forbes born - Journalist and financier
1880	Robert Dalglish died - Businessman and politician
1880	Robert Fortune died - Botanist and plant-hunter
1880	Sir Frank Mears born - Town planner and architect
1880	Sir Giles Gilbert Scott born - English architect
1880	Sir Thomas Bouch died - Engineer
1880	Sir William Russell Flint born - Popular artist and illustrator
1880	William (Willie) Dunn (Senior) died - Golfing champion and equipment manufacturer
1880	William McCombie died - Cattle breeder
1881	Admiral Sir James Hope died - Naval commander
1881	Bonskeid House (Perth and Kinross) Built
1881	Charles Alfred Jarvis born - Heroic soldier, the first to win a Victoria Cross in World War I
1881	Collins Fountain (Glasgow City) Erected
1881	Dumbarton Public Library (West Dunbartonshire) Established
1881	George Bain born - Artist who became known as the father of modern Celtic design
1881	Greig Street Bridge (Highland) Opened
1881	James Shearer born - Architect
1881	John Crichton-Stuart (4th Marquess of Bute) born - Conservationist of the built environment
1881	John Hill Burton died - Historian, writer and lawyer
1881	Norman Ainsley born - Screen and stage actor
1881	Sir Alexander Fleming born - Medical Scientist
1881	Thomas (Tom) Johnston born - Politician
1881	Thomas Carlyle died - Writer, historian, philosopher and literary critic
1881	Victoria Bridge (Aberdeen City) Opened
1881	William Brodie died - Sculptor
1881	Gloup Fishing Disaster
1881	Eyemouth Disaster
1882	Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding (Lord Dowding of Bentley Priory) born - Air Force Commander
1882	Archibald Campbell Tait died - Archbishop of Canterbury
1882	Beaufort Castle (Highland) Built
1882	Chrystal MacMillan born - Feminist and pacifist
1882	Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank (West Dunbartonshire) Opened
1882	Francis Maitland Balfour died - Embryologist
1882	Infirmary Bridge (Highland) Opened
1882	Inverness Town House (Highland) Opened
1882	John Muir died - Orientalist
1882	John Scott Russell died - Engineer and pioneering naval architect
1882	Joseph Henry Maclagen Wedderburn born - Mathematician
1882	Mary Gordon (Mary Gilmour) born - Actress
1882	Philip Henry Kerr (11th Marquess of Lothian) born - Statesman, politician and diplomat
1882	Prof. Thomas Graham Brown born - Mountaineer and neurophysiologist
1882	Sir Charles Wyville Thomson died - Oceanographer
1882	Sir Edward MacColl born - Engineer and pioneer of hydro-electricity in Scotland
1882	Sir Hugh Allan died - Ship-owner, who contributed significantly to the commercial development of Canada
1882	Sir John Anderson (1st Viscount Waverley) born - Administrator and Politician
1882	Sir Robert Christison died - Pioneering toxicologist
1882	Stirling Arcade (Stirling) Built
1882	The Fountain (Dumfries and Galloway) Erected
1883	Albert Halls (Stirling) Built
1883	Birnam Arts & Conference Centre (Perth and Kinross) Built
1883	David Rhind died - Architect
1883	Dr. Robert Moffat died - Missionary and explorer
1883	Dunfermline Carnegie Library (Fife) Built
1883	Duthie Park (Aberdeen City) Created
1883	Ebenezer Place (Highland) Constructed
1883	Eric Temple Bell born - Mathematician and author
1883	Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell born - Painter
1883	HM Prison Dumfries (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1883	James McBey born - Artist, noted for his etchings and dry point engravings
1883	James Young (Paraffin Young) died - Chemical Engineer
1883	Jessie Seymour Irvine died - Amateur composer, noted for a single tune
1883	John Brown died - Personal servant of Queen Victoria
1883	John Miller died - Pioneering railway engineer and politician
1883	John Zephaniah Bell died - Artist
1883	Joseph Mitchell died - Civil engineer
1883	Neilson's Monument (Dumfries and Galloway) Erected
1883	Peter Spence died - Industrial chemist
1883	Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie born - Author
1883	Sir James Lithgow (1st Baronet Ormsary) born - Shipbuilding magnate and philanthropist
1883	The Royal Lyceum Theatre (City of Edinburgh) Built
1883	Thomas Coats died - Industrialist
1883	William Chambers died - Publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh
1884	Alexander Wood died - Physician, who developed the hypodermic syringe
1884	Alexandria Library (West Dunbartonshire) Built
1884	Allan Pinkerton died - Private detective
1884	Arthur Perigal died - Landscape painter
1884	Captain Neil Boyd Watson McEacharn born - Garden designer
1884	Cardinal William Theodore Heard born - First post-Reformation Scottish Cardinal
1884	Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (Argyll and Bute) Established
1884	Jean Dunlop Cadell born - Actress
1884	Lord Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell born - Socialist politician
1884	Meat Market Arch (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1884	Mortuary Chapel (Angus) Built
1884	Peter Fraser born - New Zealand politician
1884	Royal Scottish Geographical Society Founded
1884	Sir Alexander Grant died - Administrator and educationalist
1884	Southern Suburban Railway (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1884	Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott (5th Duke of Buccleuch; 7th Duke of Queensberry) died - Noble and land-owner
1885	Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen City) Built
1885	Alexander Mackenzie born - Actor
1885	Alexander Murray died - Geologist
1885	Charles 'Mac' Macaskie born - Founder of Britain's first nudist camp
1885	Covenanter's Monument (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1885	David Clyde born - Actor
1885	East End Park (Fife) Opened
1885	Falkirk Tryst Golf Course (Falkirk) Opened
1885	James Cox died - Jute baron
1885	John Campbell Shairp died - Poet and literary critic
1885	John Francis Campbell (Iain Og Ile) died - Polymath
1885	North British Distillery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1885	Robert Thorburn died - Artist
1885	St Leonards-in-the-Fields & Trinity Church (Perth and Kinross) Built
1885	Tennent Caledonian Brewery (Glasgow City) Opened
1885	The Mercat Cross (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1885	Thomas Davidson died - Palaeontologist
1885	Will Fyffe born - Comedian and singer
1885	William Laughton Lorimer born - Classical scholar
1886	Ailsa Craig Lighthouse (South Ayrshire) Built
1886	Alexander D. Robertson died - Artist and art teacher
1886	Anchor Mills (Renfrewshire) Built
1886	David Stevenson died - Engineer son of Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850), and uncle of author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
1886	Dr. Kurt Hahn born - Educationalist and educational philosopher
1886	Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (The Highland Lady) died - Writer and social observer
1886	Frank Lloyd born - Film director
1886	Garmouth Viaduct (Moray) Opened
1886	Helen Burness Cruickshank born - Poet and activist
1886	Lorna Moon (Helen Low) born - Authoress and Holywood screen-writer
1886	Old Blacksmith's Shop Visitor Centre (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1886	Penelope Beaton born - Artist
1886	Rosemount Viaduct (Aberdeen City) Opened
1886	Sir Alexander Matheson of Lochalsh died - Trader
1886	Sir Arthur Whitten Brown born - Aviation pioneer
1886	The Athenaeum (Glasgow City) Built
1886	Tynecastle Stadium (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1886	The Edinburgh International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art
1887	Balfour Stewart died - Physicist and meteorologist
1887	Dovecot Studios (City of Edinburgh) Built
1887	Dugald MacPhail died - Gaelic songwriter, poet and author
1887	Glenfiddich Distillery (Moray) Opened
1887	James (Jimmy) Henderson Finlayson born - Actor
1887	James Grant died - Novelist and historian
1887	John McEwen born - Radical socialist and proponent of land reform
1887	John Menzies Campbell born - Dental historian
1887	Seafield Cemetery and Crematorium (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1887	Stanley Cursiter born - Painter
1887	Tay Railway Bridge (Fife) Opened
1887	Thomas Stevenson died - Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses
1887	Trinity Cemetery (Aberdeen City) Opened
1887	Victor Alexander John Hope (8th Earl of Hopetoun; 2nd Marquis of Linlithgow) born - Viceroy of India
1887	Warrender Swim Centre (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1887	William Nelson died - Publisher
1887	Udston Pit Disaster
1888	Ballengeich Cemetery (Stirling) Opened
1888	Castle Douglas Auction Mart (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1888	Celtic Football Club Founded
1888	Celtic Park (Glasgow City) Opened
1888	City Chambers (Glasgow City) Opened
1888	Doulton Fountain (Glasgow City) Erected
1888	HM Prison Peterhead (Aberdeenshire) Built
1888	James Salmon died - Architect
1888	James Sellars died - Architect
1888	John Logie Baird born - Engineer
1888	Osborne Henry Mavor (James Bridie) born - Playwright and promoter of the arts
1888	Sir Henry James Sumner Maine died - Jurist and legal historian
1888	Sir William Pearce died - English-born ship-builder
1888	Somerset Park (South Ayrshire) Opened
1888	Teviot Row House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1888	Walter Elliot born - Politician, writer and broadcaster
1888	William Wallace Statue (Aberdeen City) Erected
1889	David Waldie died - Surgeon and medical scientist
1889	Hyman Levy born - Mathematician, philosopher and humanist
1889	Inverleith Park (City of Edinburgh) Created
1889	James Leslie died - Harbour engineer
1889	John Boyd Watson died - Australian mining tycoon
1889	John Charles Walsham Reith (1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven) born - Engineer and Broadcasting Pioneer
1889	John Mills died - Astronomer and philanthropist
1889	Peter Anson born - Although born in Portsmouth, Anson is remembered as a marine artist based in Morayshire
1889	Rev. Horatius (Horace) Bonar died - Hymn-writer
1889	Sir William Dunbar died - Railway administrator and politician
1889	St Andrews Botanic Garden (Fife) Created
1889	Templeton Business Centre (Glasgow City) Built
1889	Teviot Row House (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1889	The John Hastie Museum (South Lanarkshire) Opened
1889	Mauricewood Pit Disaster
c.1890	Couperfield House (City of Edinburgh) Built
1890	Alexander Murdoch Mackay died - Missionary
1890	Barony Hall (Glasgow City) Built
1890	Caledonian Road Primary School (Perth and Kinross) Built
1890	David Milne-Home died - Advocate and scientist
1890	Dinnet House (Aberdeenshire) Built
1890	Edinburgh Central Library (City of Edinburgh) Built
1890	Edward Sang died - Mathematician, engineer and actuary
1890	Forth Bridge (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1890	Inverness Victorian Market (Highland) Built
1890	James Croll died - Unsung scientist
1890	James Lorimer died - Lawyer and political philosopher
1890	James Nasmyth died - Engineer and inventor
1890	James Scott Reid (Lord Reid of Drem) born - Jurist and politician
1890	John Bartholomew born - Cartographer
1890	Manderston (Scottish Borders) Built
1890	Ochilview Park (Falkirk) Opened
1890	Patrick Allan-Fraser died - Patron of the arts
1890	Peter Henderson died - Seed merchant and author
1890	Pitsligo Parish Church (Aberdeenshire) Built
1890	Robert Mylne died - Architect and surveyor
1890	Scottish National Portrait Gallery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1890	Sir Archibald Sinclair of Ulbster (1st Viscount Thurso) born - Politician and landowner
1890	Sir George Burns died - Shipping magnate
1890	Sir James Gowans died - Architect
1890	Sir Peter Coats died - Industrialist
1890	Stornoway Golf Course (Western Isles) Opened
1890	Tommy Lorne (Hugh Gallagher Corcoran) born - Music hall comedian
1891	Abram Lyle died - Sugar refiner
1891	Crofthead Mill (East Renfrewshire) Opened
1891	D. Alan Stevenson born - Lighthouse engineer
1891	Dalmarnock Bridge (South Lanarkshire) Opened
1891	Dr. Thomas (Tom) J. Honeyman born - Director of the Glasgow Art Gallery
1891	Jack Buchanan born - Actor and Producer
1891	John Inglis (Lord Glencorse) died - Judge
1891	Lochee Park (Dundee City) Created
1891	Neil Gunn born - Novelist
1891	Prof. Flora Murray Scott born - Plant physiologist
1891	Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay died - Geologist
1891	Sir John Alexander MacDonald died - First Prime Minister of Canada
1891	Sir John Steell died - Sculptor
1891	The Stewartry Museum (Dumfries and Galloway) Opened
1891	William Gemmell died - Sculptor
1892	Aberdeen Central Library (Aberdeen City) Built
1892	Alexander Mackenzie died - Canadian Prime Minister
1892	Andrew (Andy) Clyde born - Actor
1892	Askernish Golf Course (Western Isles) Opened
1892	Digestive Biscuit Invented
1892	Dr. Thomas Neill Cream died - The Waterloo Poisoner
1892	Glasgow Gailes Golf Course (North Ayrshire) Opened
1892	Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) born - Poet, nationalist and socialist
1892	James Augustus Grant died - Explorer and soldier
1892	James Brunlees died - Civil engineer
1892	John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (J.B.S. Haldane) born - Biologist and geneticist
1892	John Cairns died - Clergyman and philosopher
1892	John Muir Wood died - Musicologist and amateur photographer
1892	Margaret Myles born - Midwife and educator, who was revered in Scotland and respected internationally
1892	Prof. Sir Daniel Wilson died - Archaeologist, antiquarian and academic
1892	Ramsay Garden (City of Edinburgh) Constructed
1892	Rev. Andrew Alexander Bonar died - Clergyman and author
1892	Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1892	Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt born - Physicist
1892	St Mark's Church (Aberdeen City) Built
1892	Thomas Nelson died - Publisher
1893	Anna (Nan) Shepherd born - Author
1893	Carnegie Library (South Ayrshire) Built
1893	Charles Jenner died - Co-founder of Jenner's department store in Edinburgh
1893	Dr. James Phemister born - Geologist
1893	Dr. John Rae died - Arctic Explorer
1893	Emancipation Monument (City of Edinburgh) Erected
1893	Euan Cox born - Plant-hunter
1893	George Washington Wilson died - Pioneering photographer, noted for his early studies of the Royal family
1893	Helliar Holm Lighthouse (Orkney) Built
1893	John Pettie died - Painter
1893	McLennan Arch (Glasgow City) Erected
1893	Powderhall Waste Transfer Station (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1893	Sir James Anderson died - Captain of the Great Eastern
1893	Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen born - Politician, land-owner and minor poet
1893	The Tenement House (Glasgow City) Built
1893	William Shepherd Morrison (Viscount Dunrossil of Valaquie) born - Politician
1894	Andrew Heiton died - Architect
1894	Bannockburn Hospital (Stirling) Built / Opened
1894	Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay born - Fascist, imprisoned for treason during the Second World War
1894	Charles George Hood Kinnear died - Architect and inventor
1894	Dalmarnock Sewage Works (Glasgow City) Opened
1894	Dora Mina Erskine-Wemyss (Lady Grosvenor) died - Creator of the Wemyss School of Needlework
1894	Greenfield House (Clackmannanshire) Built
1894	Helensburgh Upper Station (Argyll and Bute) Opened
1894	James McCosh died - Philosopher
1894	John Colville (Baron Clydesmuir of Braidwood) born - Industrialist and politician
1894	John Veitch died - Philosopher, poet and historian
1894	Joseph (Joe) Corrie born - Poet and playwright
1894	Prof. Alexander Thom born - Engineer, noted for his archaeoastronomical research on stone circles
1894	Rannoch Viaduct (Perth and Kinross) Opened
1894	Rev. James Gall died - Cartographer and clergyman
1894	Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson) died - Author and literary critic
1894	Sir Harold Macmillan (1st Earl of Stockton) born - British Prime Minister
1894	Victoria Drummond born - First British female ship's engineer
1894	William McCance born - Painter
1894	William Robertson-Smith died - Scholar of Oriental and Biblical Studies
1895	Agnes Miller Parker born - Book illustrator and engraver
1895	Anne Redpath born - Painter
1895	David Lyall died - Explorer and naturalist
1895	Jenners Department Store (City of Edinburgh) Built
1895	John B. Howard died - Theatre impresario and actor
1895	Joseph Thomson died - African explorer
1895	Lynedoch Monument (Perth and Kinross) Erected
1895	Mar Lodge (Aberdeenshire) Built
1895	Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane born - Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force
1895	St Cuthbert's Church (City of Edinburgh) Built
1895	The Lighthouse (Glasgow City) Built
1895	Thomas (Tommy) Armour born - Golfer
1896	Archibald Joseph Cronin (A.J. Cronin) born - Author
1896	Foyers Hydro-Electric Power Scheme (Highland) Opened
1896	Glasgow Underground (Glasgow City) Opened
1896	Morton Hall (East Ayrshire) Built
1896	Rutherglen Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1896	Shiskine Golf Course (North Ayrshire) Opened
1896	Thomas Hope Hospital (Dumfries and Galloway) Built / Opened
1896	Thomas Meik died - Civil Engineer
1896	Thomas Usher died - Brewer
1896	Waterloo Bridge (Highland) Opened
1897	Aultnaslanach Viaduct (Highland) Opened
1897	Crichton Memorial Church (Dumfries and Galloway) Built
1897	Dalmarnock Railway Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1897	David Kirkaldy died - Experimental engineer
1897	Douglas Park Course (East Dunbartonshire) Opened
1897	Findhorn Viaduct (Highland) Opened
1897	Helen Duncan ('Hellish Nell') born - Spiritualist, medium and the last person to be imprisoned for witchcraft in Britain
1897	Hope Montagu Douglas Scott born - Patron of the Arts
1897	James Gray Stuart (Viscount Stuart of Findhorn) born - Politician
1897	Jane Haining born - Missionary and martyr
1897	John Paton Laurie born - Actor
1897	Kinnaird House (Falkirk) Built
1897	Kyle of Lochalsh Station (Highland) Opened
1897	Margaret Oliphant (Margaret Wilson) died - Prodigious author
1897	Martyr's School (Glasgow City) Opened
1897	Matthew Forster Heddle died - Mineralogist and chemist
1897	McEwan Hall (City of Edinburgh) Built
1897	Naomi Mitchison born - Novelist and poet
1897	Prof. Henry Drummond died - Clergyman, academic and author
1897	Sir Isaac Holden died - Inventor
1897	Tomatin Distillery (Highland) Opened
1897	William Johnstone born - Painter
1898	(William) Hamilton Beattie died - Architect
1898	Andrew Usher died - Whisky blender
1898	Aviemore Station (Highland) Built
1898	Clava Viaduct (Highland) Opened
1898	Comely Bank Cemetery (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1898	Cruickshank Botanical Gardens (Aberdeen City) Created
1898	Dalwhinnie Distillery (Highland) Opened
1898	Evan MacColl died - Poet and song-writer
1898	Forfar Museum and Art Gallery (Angus) Opened
1898	Francis Napier (10th Lord Napier; 1st Baron Ettrick) died - Diplomat and colonial administrator
1898	George Clark died - Shoe maker
1898	Granton Gas Works (City of Edinburgh) Opened
1898	James Guthrie Orchar died - Engineer, industrialist and philanthropist
1898	James Matthews died - Architect
1898	John Caird died - Theologian and philosopher
1898	John Grierson born - Director and film-maker who introduced the term 'documentary'
1898	John Ritchie Findlay died - Newspaper owner
1898	Major George Sherriff born - Plant hunter and botanist
1898	Murdoch (Murdo) Paterson died - Civil engineer
1898	Robert Gordon McBeath born - Soldier who won the Victoria Cross
1898	Sir John Fowler died - English Architect and engineer
1898	Sir William George Gillies born - Artist
1898	The People's Palace (Glasgow City) Opened
1898	William Ewart Gladstone died - British Prime Minister
1898	William Soutar born - Poet and diarist
1899	Alexander Fraser died - Landscape painter
1899	Campbeltown Museum (Argyll and Bute) Opened
1899	City Union Railway Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1899	Dens Park (Dundee City) Opened
1899	Eric Robert Linklater born - Author
1899	Flannan Isles Lighthouse (Western Isles) Built
1899	Glasgow Bridge (Glasgow City) Opened
1899	Helensburgh Central Station (Argyll and Bute) Opened
1899	Percy Sinclair Pilcher died - Engineer and pioneer of unpowered flight
1899	Richmond Park (Glasgow City) Created
1899	Rugby Park (East Ayrshire) Opened
1899	Talla Reservoir (Scottish Borders) Opened
1899	The Mile End Mill (Renfrewshire) Opened
1899	Thomas Moonlight died - Soldier, politician and diplomat
1899	William Kinninmond Burton died - Engineer and amateur photographer
1899	William Robertson died - Engineer, industrialist and local politician
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