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- Incumbents Law officers Judiciary
- Events
- Births
- Deaths
- The arts
- See also
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1812 }}Events from the year 1812 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
- Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
Events - 1 January – Tron riot in Edinburgh concludes.
- March – meeting in Edinburgh to discuss formation of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society.
- 6 July – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It begins life as a 9.5-mile (16-kilometre), horse-drawn waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour.[1] On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach Caledonia began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock.[2]
- 12 July (The Twelfth) – first Protestant Orange march in Scotland held in Glasgow, attracting hostile Catholic crowds.[3]
- August – Henry Bell's {{PS|Comet}} begins a passenger service on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.[4]
- November – first bridge at Bonar Bridge completed in cast iron to the design of Thomas Telford.
- Ongoing – Highland Clearances.
- Brackla distillery built by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle.
- Glasgow Bible Society established.
Births - 3 February – William Fraser Tolmie, scientist and politician in Canada (died 1886 in Canada)
- 26 March (probable date) – Charles Mackay, writer (died 1889)
- 4 April – George Grub, church historian (died 1892)
- 27 May – Robert Stirling Newall, engineer and astronomer (died 1889)
- 3 June – Norman Macleod, Church of Scotland minister (died 1872)
- 2 September – Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (died 1878)
- 23 December – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (died 1904)
Deaths - 23 January – Robert Craufurd, general (mortally wounded during Peninsular War) (born 1764)
- 14 May – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Gaelic poet (born 1724)
The arts- William Tennant's ottava rima mock-heroic poem Anster Fair is published, the first use of this Italian style in Britain.[5]
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1812 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|author=Robertson, C. J. A.|year=1983|title=The Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722–1844|location=Edinburgh|publisher=John Donald Publishers|isbn=0-85976-088-X}}
2. ^Air Advertiser [sic.] advertisement dated 25 June 1812.
3. ^{{cite book|last=Booker|first=Ronnie Michael|url=http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1823&context=utk_graddiss|title=Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798|location=Knoxville|publisher=University of Tennessee|year=2010|accessdate=2014-08-29|pages=45–6}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=Clyde Pleasure Steamers|first=Ian|last=McCrorie|publisher=Orr, Pollock & Co. Ltd|location=Greenock|isbn=1-869850-00-9|year=1986}}
5. ^{{cite book|title=The Harmsworth Encyclopedia|year=1905}}
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