1870 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1870 in Scotland.

Incumbents

6 July – Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland founded, the world's oldest such organisation.^[1]
1 August – Burgh Customs (Scotland) Act enables burghs to abolish petty customs (local duties and tolls) and substitute local rates for them.^[2]
26 September – George Watson's Hospital in Edinburgh reopens as reconstituted as a fee-paying day school, George Watson's College Schools for Boys.
4 October – first non-public hanging in Scotland: George Chalmers of Fraserburgh, 45, is hanged in Perth county jail by the London hangman William Calcraft for the murder of a toll-keeper at Braco.^[1]
November – the University of Glasgow moves from the Old College in High Street to a new campus and main building (designed by George Gilbert Scott) at Gilmorehill in the West End of Glasgow.^[3]
30 November – the first unofficial international Association football match, England v Scotland, takes place under the approval of the Football Association (FA) at The Oval, London.^[4] The Scotland team is selected by the FA from players in the London area with Scottish connections.^[4]
Esplanade at Rothesay, Bute, completed.
Mormond Hill White Stag hill figure created in Aberdeenshire.
James Lamont & Co are established as ship repairers at Greenock.^[5]

14 March – Henry Gray, surgeon (died 1938 in Canada)
24 June – James Logan, international footballer (died 1896)
4 August – Harry Lauder, entertainer (died 1950)
18 October – J. H. Curle, mining engineer, traveller, writer, eugenicist and philatelist (died 1942 in Canada)
William Roughead, lawyer and criminologist (died 1952)

15 February – William Burn, architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (born 1789)
23 February – Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple, judge (born 1803)
26 February – John Duncan, theologian and Hebraist (born 1796)
24 April – Alexander Handyside Ritchie, sculptor (born 1804)
17 May – David Octavius Hill, artist and photographer (born 1802)
27 May – James Smart, chief constable (born 1804)
26 October – Thomas Anderson, botanist (born 1832)
Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Gaelic poet (born 1808)^[6]

1 2 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
↑ Burgh Customs (Scotland) Act 1870.
↑ "University of Glasgow, Old and New". University of Glasgow: Special Collections. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
1 2 "The first international football match". BBC. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
↑ "Port Glasgow Yards". History of Port Glasgow. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
↑ Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808–70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.