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Events from the year 1847 in Scotland.

Incumbents

28 April – the brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.^[1]^[2]
May – The congregations of the United Secession Church unite with most of those of the Relief Church to form the United Presbyterian Church.^[3]
4 May – Glenalmond College opens its doors.
17 May – Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway extends through Scotland Street Tunnel to a new southern terminus in Princes Street, Edinburgh.
17 August – Queen Victoria arrives in HMY Victoria and Albert off Greenock at the start of a visit to Scotland.
18 September – Educational Institute of Scotland formally constituted as a teachers' union "for the purpose of promoting sound learning and of advancing the interests of education in Scotland".^[4]
4–8 November – James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.^[5]^[6]
23 November – the Otago Association ship Philip Laing sets sail from Greenock carrying settlers, mostly from the Free Church of Scotland, bound for Port Chalmers in New Zealand.
The Ordnance Survey confirms Ben Nevis as the highest mountain in the British Isles, ahead of Ben Macdui.
Michael Nairn begins manufacture of floorcloth at Kirkcaldy.
Thomas Guthrie publishes A Plea for Ragged Schools in Edinburgh.

23 March – Archibald Simpson, architect (born 1790)
31 May – Thomas Chalmers, mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland (born 1780)
7 June – David Mushet, metallurgist (born 1772; died in Monmouth)
9 August – Andrew Combe, physician and phrenologist (born 1797)
29 August – William Simson, painter best known as a landscapist (born 1798 or 1799; died in London)
20 November – Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymn-writer (born 1793; died in Nice)
7 December – Robert Liston, pioneering surgeon (born 1794; died in London)

R. M. Ballantyne returns to Edinburgh from Canada.
Charles Lees paints The Golfers.
The Sobieski Stuarts' fictional Tales of the Century: or Sketches of the romance of history between the years 1746 and 1846 is published.

^ "The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay". Isle of Islay. 2011.
^ "The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland". My Secret Northern Ireland.
^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^ "Our history". Educational Institute of Scotland. 21 March 2007. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
^ First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 10 November, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, 12 November.
^ Gordon, H. Laing (2002). Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870). Minerva Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4102-0291-8. Retrieved 11 November 2011.