1871 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1871 }}
Events from the year 1871 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 7 March – the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4–1 win by Scotland over England.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=293–294|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
- 26 May – Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
- 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.{{cite news|first=David|last=McLean|title=Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh Trams 1871-1956|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/lost-edinburgh-edinburgh-trams-1871-1956-1-2913044|newspaper=The Scotsman|location=Edinburgh|date=2013-04-30|access-date=2014-08-20}}
- 10 November – missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.
- Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.{{cite book|title=Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland|first1=Ronald|last1=Johnston|first2=Arthur|last2=McIvor|location=East Linton|publisher=Tuckwell Press|year=2000|isbn=1-86232-178-7|page=10}}
- Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow.
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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){{cite journal|last=Amodeo|first=Christian|date=June 2005|title=Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods|journal=Geographical|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3120/is_6_77/ai_n29183161/}}
The arts
- William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).{{cite web|first=William|last=Donaldson|title=Alexander, William (1826–1894)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39241|access-date=2013-08-19|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39241}} {{ODNBsub}}
- William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.{{cite book|first=Q. D.|last=Leavis|author-link=Q. D. Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}