1889 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1889 }}
Events from the year 1889 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 26 January – Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-24|title=Dundee – Scotland’s First City?|url=https://dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/scotlands-first-city/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=The Dundee City Archives Blog|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2019-01-28|title=Calling all history buffs: Dundee is actually the oldest city in Scotland - here's why|url=https://www.seedundee.com/news/calling-all-history-buffs-dundee-is-actually-the-oldest-city-in-scotland-heres-why/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=SeeDundee|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|last=Milne|first=Scott|title=Dundee is Scotland's oldest city — and here's why|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/815091/dundee-is-scotlands-oldest-city-and-heres-why/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=The Courier|language=en-GB}}
- 5 February – the first issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
- 11 March – baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.
- 24 April – William Henry Bury is hanged in Dundee for uxoricide.
- 15 July – the Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.{{cite news|title=The Scottish National Portrait Gallery|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=16 July 1889|page=5|issue=32752}}
- 26 August – the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, receives royal assent. School fees abolished for compulsory education.
- 5 September – Mauricewood Colliery disaster: a fire at the pit near Penicuik kills 63 of the 70 men and boys working underground.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/28.html|title=Mauricewood 1889|work=Scottish Mining Website|accessdate=2021-05-21}}
- 1 November – new building under construction at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.
- November - King's Cross Hospital opens in Dundee.{{cite web |title=Collection THB 22 - King's Cross Hospital |url=https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/thb-22 |website=Archive Services Catalogue |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=13 December 2023}}
Births
- 7 January – George Samson, sailor, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at sea 1923)
- 30 May – Isobel Wylie Hutchison, explorer (died 1982)
- 20 July – John Reith, broadcasting executive (died 1971)
- 11 August – Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (died 1964)
- 25 September – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer (died 1930)
- 1 December – Alexander Keiller, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died 1955)
- John Munro (Iain Rothach), Gaelic poet (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
- 31 May – Horatius Bonar, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born 1808)
- 24 December – Charles Mackay, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born 1812)
The arts
- Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Mystery of Cloomber is published.
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is published.
- The Great Scottish National Panorama (Battle of Bannockburn) is opened in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.