1813 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1813 }}
Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 1 April – whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.{{cite news|title=Oscar shipwreck in 1813 cost the lives of 44 sailors|date=2013-05-16|first=Fiona-Jane|last=Brown|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/aberdeen-history-oscar-shipwreck-1813-1892189|newspaper=Daily Record|location=Glasgow|access-date=2014-02-21}}
- 15 April – foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|access-date=2014-02-21|archive-date=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|url-status=dead}}
- October
- Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.{{cite web|title=Invermoriston Bridge|work=SABRE|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Invermoriston_Bridge|access-date=2014-02-21}}
- Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.{{cite journal|first=Aonghus|last=MacKechnie|title=Duchess Bridge, Langholm: an early Scottish cast-iron estate footbridge - made in Scotland|journal=Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society|series=3rd ser.|volume=88|year=2014|pages=109–16}}
- The first Kirkcaldy whaler, The Earl Percy, sails north to the Davis Strait.
- Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.
- Robert Owen obtains control of the cotton spinning mills at New Lanark and publishes A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character.
Births
- 30 January – George Gilfillan, writer and poet (died 1878)
- 18 March –
- Thomas Graham Balfour, physician (died 1891 in London)
- William Calder Marshall, sculptor (died 1894 in London)
- 19 March – David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (died 1873 in Africa)
- 13 April – Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician (died 1844)
- 14 May (bapt.) – John Hosack, lawyer and historian (died 1887 in London)
- 17 May? – Eliza Rennie, author
- 18 May – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge (died 1896)
- 21 May – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (died 1843)
- 27 May – William McNaught, steam engineer (died 1881 in Manchester)
- 21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet (died 1865)
- 28 July – James Newlands, municipal engineer (died 1871 in Liverpool)
- 10 August – Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer (died 1872 in London)
- 6 September – Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist (died 1889 in London)
- 10 September – Angus MacKay, piper (died 1859)
- 13 September – Daniel MacMillan, publisher (died 1857)
- 30 September – John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician (died 1893 in London)
- November – John Stuart, antiquarian (died 1877)
- 13 December –
- James R. Ballantyne, orientalist (died 1864)
- David Brandon, architect (died 1897)
- George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1900 in Canada)
- 18 December – John Edgar Gregan, architect (died 1855 in Manchester)
- John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong (died 1907)
- James Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor (died 1895 in Hastings)
- Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (died 1876)
- Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (died 1884)
- John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian (died 1900)
- William Logan, temperance campaigner (died 1879)
- Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada (died 1854)
- Daniel M'Naghten, assassin (died 1865 in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum)
- George Tosh, metallurgist (died 1900 in Scunthorpe)
Deaths
- 5 January – Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian (born 1747)
- 15 February – Francis Home, physician (born 1719)
- 15 March – Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet (born 1759)
- 15 April – Alexander Murray, linguist (born 1775)
- 22 June – Allan Burns, surgeon (born 1781)
- 8 July – William Craig, Lord Craig, judge (born 1745)
- 23 August – Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America (born 1766)
- 11 October – Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator (born 1755)
- 28 October – William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter (born 1753?)