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Events from the year 1843 in Scotland.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 18 May - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.[1]
- 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 become 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.[2]
- The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire.[3]
- The Glenmorangie distillery is established in Tain by William Matheson.
- Glenburn Hydro is opened in Rothesay, Bute, the first hydropathic establishment in Scotland.
- Marion Kirkland Reid's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh.
Births[edit]
- 12 June - David Gill, astronomer known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy (died 1914)
- 5 August - James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (died 1927)
- 21 August - Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (died 1876)
Deaths[edit]
- 25 July - Charles Macintosh, chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics after whom the Mackintosh raincoat is named (born 1766)
- 5 December - David Hamilton, architect (born 1768)
The Arts[edit]
- Hill & Adamson form Scotland's first photographic studio.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Victorian Britain". BBC. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
- ^ 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 2014-09-05.