1794 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1794 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 10 February – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, authorized to raise the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot[1] (first parades 24 June). This year also the Duke becomes Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.
- May – Habeas corpus suspended. Robert Watt, who has plotted to seize Edinburgh Castle, is tried and executed for treason.[2]
- November – Irish inventor Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick.[3]
- December – Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens.
- Lords lieutenant appointed permanently across Scotland by royal warrant.
- Glengarry Fencibles formed by Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, perhaps the first military unit to wear the Glengarry bonnet.
- The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, is formed by the Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire (approximate date).
- Original Pentland Skerries lighthouse on Muckle Skerry built, engineered by Thomas Smith with the work superintendend by his stepson Robert Stevenson, the latter's first official work for the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses.[4]
- Oban distillery established by brothers John and Hugh Stevenson.
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The arts
Notes and References
- Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm. 25 January 2016. dead. dmy-all.
- Book: Kermack, W. R.. 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh. Johnston. 1944. 80–1.
- Adrian James. Kirwan. R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 117C. 2017. 209–35.
- Web site: Pentland Skerries. Northern Lighthouse Board. Edinburgh. 2009. Lighthouse Library. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20091116111613/http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/pentland.htm. 16 November 2009. dead.
- Web site: Thomas Granger . Scottish Architects . 2016-01-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120219174148/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201429 . 19 February 2012 . dead . dmy .
- Book: 1794. The People's Chronology. Everett, Jason M.. Thomson Gale. 2006. 2007-06-05. 22 August 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/. dead.
- Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.