05/22/1859 |
Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh |
Cultural |
08/07/1860 |
In Edinburgh, Queen Victoria reviews 21,000 men of the Scottish Volunteer Movement |
US/the World |
01/13/1865 |
In Scotland, fire destroys Edinburgh's Theatre Royal and kills the city's top building official |
Crime/Disasters |
11/24/1861 |
In Scotland, one of Edinburgh's oldest tenements collapses killing thirty-two sleeping inhabitants |
Crime/Disasters |
03/08/1859 |
Kenneth Grahame, author of "The Wind in the Willows," born in Edinburgh |
Education/Culture |
07/08/1860 |
Near Edinburgh, a Scottish railway locomotive crashes into the sea killing four of the five aboard |
US/the World |
10/03/1860 to 10/05/1860 |
Severe gales pound the north-east coast of England and Scotland |
Crime/Disasters |
12/08/1859 |
Thomas De Quincey, the English author and opium eater, dies in Edinburgh |
Personal |