1877 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1877 }}
Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.{{cite book|chapter=1877|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}
- 16 October – the Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.{{cite web|url=http://www.ninetradesofdundee.co.uk/2013-10-30/Mariners%20&%20Seamen/Historic%20extracts/1876-1900.pdf|title=Mariners and Seamen|publisher=The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee|year=2011|access-date=2014-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429080557/http://www.ninetradesofdundee.co.uk/2013-10-30/Mariners%20%26%20Seamen/Historic%20extracts/1876-1900.pdf|archive-date=29 April 2014|url-status=dead}}
- 22 October – Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/55.html|title=Blantyre Disaster 22nd October 1877|work=Scottish Mining Website|access-date=2014-04-28}}
- 3 December – the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.
- Ex-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant tours his ancestral Scotland.{{cite web|title=Stars and gripes: When US President Ulysses S Grant came to Scotland|first=Andrew|last=Thomson|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44399859|date=2018-06-10|access-date=2018-06-11|publisher=BBC}}
- The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.ardverikie.com/history.htm|publisher=Ardverikie Estate Limited|access-date=2014-07-05|archive-date=20 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720025702/http://www.ardverikie.com/history.htm|url-status=dead}}
- Cluny Harbour at Buckie is built.
- Wick Harbour breakwater is washed away in a storm for a second time.
- Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
- Manufacture of linoleum at Kirkcaldy begins.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Alexander|year=1952|title=The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: County of Fife|publisher=Oliver and Boyd|location=Edinburgh|oclc=41800432|pages=287–8}}
- Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.{{cite journal|url=http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/ayrshire-cattle-heritage-livestock-zeylaf.aspx|title=Ayrshire Cattle: Heritage Livestock Breeds|access-date=2016-03-01|work=Mother Earth News|date=June 2010|first=Janet Vorwald|last=Dohner}}
- A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.
Births
- 25 February – John Tait Robertson, international footballer (died 1935)
- 12 May – William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician (died 1959)
- 7 August – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, painter (died 1931)
- 9 November – Helen Crawfurd, suffragette and communist activist (died 1954)
- 26 November – Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (suicide 1924)
Deaths
- 2 January – Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1810)
- 3 February – James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder and Liberal MP (1859–74) (born 1805)
- 14 April – Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (born 1834)
The arts
- William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet (according to his own account).{{cite book|editor=Hunt, Chris|title=William McGonagall: Collected Poems|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Birlinn|year=2006|isbn=9781841584775|page=vi}}
- Robert Louis Stevenson's first published works of fiction appear in magazines.