| 释义 |
- 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| 1878 }}Events from the year 1878 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – William Watson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events - 14 January – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria.[1]
- 15 March – restoration of the Scottish hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, carried out on the instructions of the newly appointed Pope Leo XIII.
- 31 May – the North British Railway's first Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay is ceremonially opened, its engineer, Thomas Bouch, being made a burgess of Dundee. Designed in iron to replace a train ferry, it is the world's longest bridge at this date.[2]
- 12 December – the iron-hulled full-rigged ship Falls of Clyde is launched at Russell & Company's yard at Port Glasgow for Wright and Breakenridge's Glasgow-based Falls Line. In 1968 she will be laid up as a museum ship in Honolulu.
- Sophia Jex-Blake sets up in practice in Edinburgh as the city's first woman doctor.
- The hydropathic establishment in Moffat is opened.
- Construction of forts on Inchkeith begins.
- West coast shipping operator David Hutcheson & Co. passes wholly to control of David MacBrayne.
Births - 20 January – Finlay Currie, actor (died 1968 in England)
- 23 March – Muirhead Bone, graphic artist (died 1953 in England)
- 12 April – Alex McDonald, footballer (died 1949)
- 10 August – Louis Esson, poet and playwright (died 1943 in Australia)
- 14 December – James Greenlees, rugby union footballer, educationalist and soldier (died 1951)
- Robert Freeman, Baptist minister in the United States
- George Wittet, architect (died 1926 in Bombay)
Deaths - 26 January – Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (born 1812)
- 19 February – George Paul Chalmers, painter (born 1833; died as the result of a street attack)
- 6 June – Robert Stirling, Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the Stirling engine (born 1790)
- 13 August – George Gilfillan, writer and poet (born 1813)
- 5 December – George Whyte-Melville, novelist and poet (born 1821)[3]
- 31 December – James Matheson, Member of Parliament and co-founder of Jardine, Matheson & Co. (born 1796)
The arts- July – William McGonagall journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria.[4]
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1878 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=John|authorlink=John Thomas (author)|title=The North British Railway|volume=1|date=1969|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-4697-0}}
3. ^stanford.edu
4. ^Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems.
{{Years in Scotland}} 4 : 1878 in Scotland|Years of the 19th century in Scotland|1878 in the United Kingdom|1870s in Scotland |