1870 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1870 in Scotland.

Incumbents

6 July – Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland founded, the world's oldest such organisation.^[1]
26 September – George Watson's Hospital in Edinburgh reopens as reconstituted as a fee-paying day school, George Watson's College Schools for Boys.
4 October – first non-public hanging in Scotland: George Chalmers of Fraserburgh, 45, is hanged in Perth county gaol by the London hangman William Calcraft for the murder of a toll-keeper at Braco.^[1]
November – the University of Glasgow moves from the Old College in High Street to a new campus and main building (designed by George Gilbert Scott) at Gilmorehill in the West End of Glasgow.^[2]
30 November – the first unofficial international Association football match, England v Scotland, takes place under the approval of the Football Association (FA) at The Oval, London.^[3] The Scotland team is selected by the FA from players in the London area with Scottish connections.^[3]
Esplanade at Rothesay, Bute, completed.
Mormond Hill White Stag hill figure created in Aberdeenshire.
James Lamont & Co are established as ship repairers at Greenock.^[4]

14 March – Henry Gray, surgeon (died 1938 in Canada)
24 June – James Logan, international footballer (died 1896)
4 August – Harry Lauder, entertainer (died 1950)
18 October – J. H. Curle, mining engineer, traveller, writer, eugenicist and philatelist (died 1942 in Canada)
William Roughead, lawyer and criminologist (died 1952)

15 February – William Burn, architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (born 1789)
23 February – Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple, judge (born 1803)
26 February – John Duncan, theologian and Hebraist (born 1796)
24 April – Alexander Handyside Ritchie, sculptor (born 1804)
17 May – David Octavius Hill, artist and photographer (born 1802)
27 May – James Smart, chief constable (born 1804)
26 October – Thomas Anderson, botanist (born 1832)
Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Gaelic poet (born 1808)^[5]

Web site: Notable Dates in History . The Flag in the Wind . . 2014-08-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm . 5 December 2014 .
Web site: University of Glasgow, Old and New. University of Glasgow: Special Collections. 13 July 2017.
Web site: The first international football match. BBC. 2013-06-11.
Web site: Port Glasgow Yards. History of Port Glasgow. 2009-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20160703175448/http://www.portglasgow4u.co.uk/Shipyards/Early_Shipyards.html. 3 July 2016. dead.
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