The Victorian City · event 5 of 7

1861

The One O’Clock Gun. First fired, with the time ball on Calton Hill, so ships in the Forth could set their chronometers by sound and sight.

The The Victorian City era

  1. 1828
  2. 1836
  3. 1846
  4. 1847
  5. 1861
  6. 1890
  7. 1920

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