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