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Events from the year 1849 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 19 February – Theatre Royal disaster: 65 people, almost all under the age of 20, are crushed to death in a panic caused by a small fire in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow.[1]
- 16 July – Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service withdrawn.[2]
- 5 October – after three years construction, the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse oil light is first exhibited.[3]
- 1 November – Buchanan Street railway station opened in Glasgow by the Caledonian Railway.
- Pollokshields is established as a Glasgow southside suburb by the Stirling-Maxwell family and set out or 'feued' by Edinburgh architect David Rhind.
- The drapers' store of Arthur & Fraser, predecessor of the House of Fraser, is established in Glasgow by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur.[4]
- The construction of Cox Brothers' Camperdown Works in Lochee begins.[5]
Births
- 27 May – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor (died 1934)
- 24 September – Cathcart William Methven, harbour engineer and painter (died 1925 in South Africa)
- 23 October – James Reid, physician (died 1923)
- 29 December – William Cunningham, economist and economic historian (died 1919)
Deaths
- 5 March – David Scott, historical painter (born 1806)
- 3 July – Anthony Todd Thomson, physician and pioneer of dermatology (born 1778)
See also
References
- ↑ "The Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow". Arthur Lloyd.co.uk: The Music Hall and Theatre History Site. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ↑ Ayres, George. History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. p. 22.
- ↑ History www.nlb.org.uk, accessed 24 July 2013.
- ↑ "House of Fraser archive project" (PDF).
- ↑ "Collection MS 6 - Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, and Cox Family Papers". Archive Services Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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