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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1889 }}Events from the year 1889 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}- Monarch – Victoria
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian
Law officers - Lord Advocate – James Robertson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events - 5 February – the first issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
- 11 March – baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.
- 24 April – William Henry Bury is hanged in Dundee for uxoricide.
- 15 July – the Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.[1]
- 26 August – the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, receives royal assent. School fees abolished for compulsory education.
- 1 November – new building under construction at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.
- Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.
Births - 7 January – George Samson, sailor, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at sea 1923)
- 20 July – John Reith, broadcasting executive (died 1971)
- 11 August – Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (died 1964)
- 25 September – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer (died 1930)
- 1 December – Alexander Keiller, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died 1955)
- John Munro (Iain Rothach), Gaelic poet (killed in action 1918)
Deaths - 31 May – Horatius Bonar, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born 1808)
- 24 December – Charles Mackay, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born 1812)
The arts- Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Mystery of Cloomber is published.
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is published.
- The Great Scottish National Panorama (Battle of Bannockburn) is opened in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1889 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite news|title=The Scottish National Portrait Gallery|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=16 July 1889|page=5|issue=32752}}
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