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
- 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
