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1889 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1889 in Scotland.
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- 26 January – Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.[1][2][3]
- 5 February – the first issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
- 11 March – baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.
- 24 April – William Henry Bury is hanged in Dundee for uxoricide.
- 15 July – the Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.[4]
- 26 August – the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, receives royal assent. School fees abolished for compulsory education.
- 5 September – Mauricewood Colliery disaster: a fire at the pit near Penicuik kills 63 of the 70 men and boys working underground.[5]
- 1 November – new building under construction at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.
- November - King's Cross Hospital opens in Dundee.[6]
- 7 January – George Samson, sailor, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at sea 1923)
- 30 May – Isobel Wylie Hutchison, explorer (died 1982)
- 20 July – John Reith, broadcasting executive (died 1971)
- 11 August – Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (died 1964)
- 25 September – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer (died 1930)
- 1 December – Alexander Keiller, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died 1955)
- John Munro (Iain Rothach), Gaelic poet (killed in action 1918)
- 31 May – Horatius Bonar, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born 1808)
- 24 December – Charles Mackay, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born 1812)
- Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Mystery of Cloomber is published.
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is published.
- The Great Scottish National Panorama (Battle of Bannockburn) is opened in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
- "Dundee – Scotland's First City?". The Dundee City Archives Blog. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- "Calling all history buffs: Dundee is actually the oldest city in Scotland - here's why". SeeDundee. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- Milne, Scott. "Dundee is Scotland's oldest city — and here's why". The Courier. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- "Mauricewood 1889". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- "Collection THB 22 - King's Cross Hospital". Archive Services Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 13 December 2023.