1871_in_Scotland
1871 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1871 in Scotland.
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- 7 March – the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4–1 win by Scotland over England.[1]
- 26 May – Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.[2]
- 1 August – the Arlington Swimming Club, designed by John Burnet, opens in the district of Charing Cross, Glasgow.
- 6 November – the Edinburgh Street Tramways Company begins operating horsecars, the first tram system in Scotland.[3]
- 10 November – missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.[2]
- Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.[4]
- Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow.
- 21 January – Ernest Kitto, cricketer in New Zealand (died 1897 at sea)
- 27 January – Samuel Peploe, painter (died 1935)
- 17 February
- John A. Gilruth, veterinary surgeon and colonial administrator (died 1937 in Australia)
- Peter Corsar Anderson, golfer (died 1955)
- 10 September – Thomas Adams, urban planner (died 1940)
- 12 September – John Campbell, international footballer (died 1947)
- Lachlan Grant, physician (died 1945)
- Thomas W. Lamb, theatre architect in the United States (died 1942)
- 5 February – James Munro, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826)
- 17 March – Robert Chambers, publisher and geologist (born 1802)
- 20 April – Samuel Halkett, librarian (born 1814)
- 6 September – James Burns, shipowner (born 1789)
- 22 October – Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)[5]
- William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).[6]
- William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.[7]
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 293–294. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- McLean, David (30 April 2013). "Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh Trams 1871-1956". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- Johnston, Ronald; McIvor, Arthur (2000). Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. p. 10. ISBN 1-86232-178-7.
- Amodeo, Christian (June 2005). "Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods". Geographical.
- Donaldson, William (2004). "Alexander, William (1826–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39241. Retrieved 19 August 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.