1849 in Scotland
Events from the year 1849 in Scotland.
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Incumbents
    
    Law officers
    
Events
    
- 19 February – Theatre Royal disaster: 65 people, almost all under the age of 20, are crushed to death in a panic caused by a small fire in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow.[1]
 - 16 July – Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service withdrawn.[2]
 - 5 October – after three years construction, the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse oil light is first exhibited.[3]
 - 1 November – Buchanan Street railway station opened in Glasgow by the Caledonian Railway.
 - Pollokshields is established as a Glasgow southside suburb by the Stirling-Maxwell family and set out or 'feued' by Edinburgh architect David Rhind.
 - The drapers' store of Arthur & Fraser, predecessor of the House of Fraser, is established in Glasgow by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur.[4]
 
Births
    
- 27 May – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor (died 1934)
 - 24 September – Cathcart William Methven, harbour engineer and painter (died 1925 in South Africa)
 - 23 October – James Reid, physician (died 1923)
 - 29 December – William Cunningham, economist and economic historian (died 1919)
 
Deaths
    
- 5 March – David Scott, historical painter (born 1806)
 - 3 July – Anthony Todd Thomson, physician and pioneer of dermatology (born 1778)
 
References
    
- "The Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow". Arthur Lloyd.co.uk: The Music Hall and Theatre History Site. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
 - Ayres, George. History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. p. 22.
 - History www.nlb.org.uk, accessed 24 July 2013.
 - "House of Fraser archive project" (PDF).
 
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