1869 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1869 }}
Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.
Incumbents
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff until October; then George Young
- Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young; then Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
= Judiciary =
Events
- 5 January – Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
- 13 January – the story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
- 27 March – the Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.{{cite web|url=http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?index=100182&|title=Jho Sho Maru|work=Aberdeen Built Ships|publisher=Aberdeen City Council|access-date=2014-04-25}}
- 13 September – the Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- October – the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees there).{{cite web|first=M. A.|last=Elston|title=Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61136|access-date=2011-01-28}}
- 22 November – the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.{{cite web|title=St Mary's Monastery (Kinnoull Monastery)|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst19654.html|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=2014-04-28}}
- Construction of Inverness Cathedral is finished.
- An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.{{cite web|title=History of All Saints' church, St Andrews, From 1824–present|url=http://www.allsaints-standrews.org.uk/about/history/|publisher=All Saints'|location=St Andrews|access-date=2016-03-23}}
- The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.The English Mechanic and World of Science 14 May & 11 June 1869.
- Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.
Births
- 14 January – Dennis Eadie, character actor (died 1928)
- 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
- 14 February – Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
- 17 April – Robert Robertson, chemist (died 1949)
- 11 June – Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)
Deaths
- 11 July – William Jerdan, journalist (born 1782)
- 20 September – George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (born 1803; suicide)