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Events from the year 1880 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – William Watson until May; then John McLaren
 - Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald; then John Blair Balfour
 
Judiciary
Events
- February – telephones introduced in Edinburgh.[1]
 - 27 April – 1880 United Kingdom general election: The Liberal Party defeat the Conservatives by a substantial majority following the 'Midlothian campaign' by William Ewart Gladstone who is returned as Member of Parliament for Midlothian and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 - 1 July – the Callander and Oban Railway is opened throughout to Oban.
 - October – the SS Ferret is fraudulently chartered at Greenock and taken to Australia.[2]
 - A. & R. Scott of Glasgow begin producing the predecessor of Scott's Porage Oats.[3]
 
Births
- 29 March – Bobby Templeton, footballer (died 1919)
 - 4 April – William Russell Flint, watercolourist (died 1969)
 - 30 April – Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, cartoonist (died 1967)
 - 6 May – Edmund Ironside, British Army officer (died 1959)
 - 14 May – B. C. Forbes, financial journalist (died 1954 in the United States)
 - 1 July – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (died 1935)
 - 13 August – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921)
 - September – Peter Kyle, footballer (died 1961)
 - 23 September – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
 - 15 October – Marie Stopes, author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control (died 1958)
 - 18 October – Alexander Livingstone, Liberal politician (died 1950)
 - Margaret McCoubrey, suffragette and pacifist in Belfast (died 1955 in Northern Ireland)
 - Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (died 1933)
 - Preston Watson, aviator (killed in military aviation accident 1915)
 
Deaths
- 3 April – John Laing, bibliographer and Free Church minister (born 1809)
 - 31 December – John Stenhouse, chemist (born 1809)
 
Sport
- Scottish Grand National first run under this name.
 - 1870s Rangers F.C. seasons
 - 1879–80 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
 - 1879–80 Hibernian F.C. season
 - 1879–80 Scottish Cup
 - 1880 Open Championship
 - 1880–81 Scottish Cup
 - 1880–81 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
 - 1880–81 Hibernian F.C. season
 
Establishments
The arts
- William McGonagall produces his doggerel poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" to commemorate the previous December's Tay Bridge disaster.
 
See also
References
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
 - ↑ "The Ferret Case". The Argus. Melbourne. 9 May 1881. p. 1S.
 - ↑ "Scott's Porage – Our Heritage". Scott's Porage Oats. Archived from the original on 23 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
 
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