Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens 1796: The Royal Technical College (which will later become The University of Strathclyde) is founded 1798: The Merchant Banking Company of Glasgow fails 1799: Demonstrations over bread prices; trade in tobacco and rum declines 1800–1899 1800: The River Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200 wharves and jetties; there is a large Gaelic community in the city 1800: The Glasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force 1803: Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow 1807: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery opens off the high street, adjacent to the then campus of Glasgow University 1809: General Association of Operative Weavers is formed 1810-1814: Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics is built in Dobbies Loan 1813: Weavers fail in bid for fair wages 1814: Glasgow Green is Europe's first public park 1815: The Glasgow Herald is published twice-weekly 1817: Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a Glasgow Botanic Garden 1818: Gas street lights begin to be used in the city 1820: "Radical War" 1825: The University of Glasgow, still located in the High Street, has over 1200 students and about 30 professors; 10 coaches run to Edinburgh daily 1827: The Argyll Arcade opens 1828: James Beaumont Neilson makes breakthrough in iron-smelting technology; a total abstinence society is formed 1832: The city benefits from increased representation under the Great Reform Bill 1835–1874: The Liberals represents Glasgow in Parliament 1836: The Forth and Clyde Canal has increased traffic in goods and passengers 1837: Violent cotton-spinners strike; the leaders are sentenced to transportation 1841: Chartist demonstration is addressed by Fergus O'Connor 1842: Opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Glasgow Queen Street railway station; Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location 1843: Disruption of the Church of Scotland 1844: Glasgow Stock Exchange opens 1846: Burgh boundaries are more than doubled to 1847: Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind, performs concerts in the city 1848: 100,000 people gather on Glasgow Green to support Chartists 1849: Queen Victoria visits the city; Buchanan Street railway station opens 1851: Glasgow becomes Scotland's largest city, overtaking Edinburgh, with a population of 329,096 over 18% of which were Irish-born Portland St suspension footbridge is built 1851–1854: Victoria Bridge is built at Stockwell Street 1857–1859: St Vincent Street Church is built by Alexander "Greek" Thomson 1859: Loch Katrine water supply is opened by