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1795 In Scotland
Events from the year 1795 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield Events * 18 November – the River Clyde, in spate, floods the centre of Glasgow and brings down the recently erected bridge at the foot of the Saltmarket. * Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built. Births * 12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada (died 1861 in Canada) * 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844) * 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England) * 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in the United States) * 12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist (died 1873) * 10 Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March12, 1795 August28, 1861) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify elite members of Upper Canada. He represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and aligned with Reformers. He led the rebels in the Upper Canada Rebellion; after its defeat, he unsuccessfully rallied American support for an invasion of Upper Canada as part of the Patriot War. Although popular for criticising government officials, he failed to implement most of his policy objectives. He is one of the most recognizable Reformers of the early 19th century. Raised in Dundee, Scotland, Mackenzie emigrated to York, Upper Canada, in 1820. He published his first newspaper, the ''Colonial Advocate'' in 1824, and was elected a York County representative to the Legislative Assembly in 1827. York became the city of Toronto in 1834 and Mackenzie was elected its first mayor; h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 In Scotland
Events from the year 1873 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – George Young * Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff Events * March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies) * 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union * 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association * 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh * ''Edinburgh Evening News'' first published * Lexicographer James Murray publishes ''Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland'' * George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecesso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Hamilton
Janet Hamilton (12 October 1795 – 27 October 1873) was a nineteenth-century Scottish poet. Life Janet was born as Janet Thomson at Carshill, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire in October 1795, the daughter of a shoemaker (James Thomson) and Mary Thomson (née Brownlee). She was a descendant of John Whitelaw, the forfeited covenanter from Shotts. At the age of three her family moved to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton, and then to Langloan, in the parish of Old Monkland, Lanarkshire at the age of seven. For a time her parents became farm labourers, and she Spinning (textiles), span and worked at the Tambour lace, tambour-frame. Her father at length settled down in business for himself as a shoemaker, and John Hamilton, one of his young workmen, married Janet in 1809 in High Street, Glasgow, when Janet was thirteen. They lived together at Langloan for about sixty years, and had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, all of whom she taught to read, starting wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 October
Events Pre-1600 *539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar) * 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. *1279 – The ''Nichiren Shōshū'' branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan. *1398 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights. * 1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. *1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar) 1601–1900 *1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. *1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 In The United States
Events from the year 1852 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government of the United States, Federal Government * President of the United States, President: Millard Fillmore (Whig Party (United States), W-New York (state), New York) * Vice President of the United States, Vice President: ''vacant'' * Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) * Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House of Representatives: Linn Boyd (Democratic Party (United States), D-Kentucky) * United States Congress, Congress: 32nd United States Congress, 32nd Events * January 15 – Nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. * February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established. * February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Wright
Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years. In the late 1820s Wright was among the first women in America to speak publicly about politics and social reform before gatherings of both men and women. She advocated universal education, the emancipation of slaves, birth control, equal rights, sexual freedom, legal rights for married women, and liberal divorce laws. Wright was also vocal in her opposition to organized religion and capital punishment. The clergy and the press harshly criticized Wright's radical views. Her public lectures in the United States led to the establishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6 September
Events Pre-1600 * 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. *1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. *1522 – The ''Victoria'' returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world. 1601–1900 *1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the ''Mayflower'' to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) *1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. *1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces. *1642 – England's Long Parliament ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Braid (surgeon)
James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint; a significant pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, and an important and influential pioneer in the adoption of both hypnotic anaesthesia and chemical anaesthesia. He is regarded by some, such as Kroger (2008, p. 3), as the "Father of Modern Hypnotism"; however, in relation to the issue of there being significant connections between Braid's "hypnotism" and "modern hypnotism" (as practised), let alone "identity", Weitzenhoffer (2000, p. 3) urges the utmost caution in making any such assumption: Also, in relation to the clinical application of "hypnotism", Early life Braid was the third son, and the seventh and youngest child, of James Braid (c. 1761–184?) and Anne Suttie (c. 1761–?). He was born at Ryelaw House, in the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19 June
Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. *1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars. * 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. *1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. 1601–1900 *1718 – At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty. *1770 – New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg wrote: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reigns. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770." * 1800 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1844 In Scotland
Events from the year 1844 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill * Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope Events * 1 February – Skerryvore lighthouse first lit. * 2 May – Commission of Enquiry set up to inquire into the system of poor relief in Scotland and suggest improvements delivers its report, leading to the Scottish Poor Law Act the following year. * July – Glasgow Stock Exchange opens. * 21 August – foundation stone of Political Martyrs' Monument in Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, laid by Joseph Hume. * 16 December – Edinburgh Stock Exchange formed. * 28 October – the first paddlewheel ''Jackal''-class gunvessel, HMS ''Jackal'' (or ''Jackall'') is launched by Robert Napier at Govan on the River Clyde as the Royal Navy's first iron ship. It is followed a mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Monument
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the Jenners department store on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels. Design and concept The tower is high and has viewing platforms reached by a series of spiral staircases giving panoramic views of central Edinburgh and its surroundings. The highest platform is reached by a total of 287 steps. It is built from Binny sandstone quarried near Ecclesmachan in West Lothian. It is placed on axis with South St. David Street, the main street leading off St. Andrew Square to Princes Street, and is a focal point within that vista, its scale being large enough to screen the Old Town behind. Its location appears more random when seen from the south side and Princes Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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