1745 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Craigie
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, the younger

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

  Events

• 11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenay in the Low Countries: Although this is a decisive French victory, the 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot distinguishes itself in its first battle.
• 23 July – Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides.
• 16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
• 19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
• September – Jacobite rising: Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, is commissioned to raise 18 new Independent Highland Companies from clans loyal to the government.
• 11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.
• 16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
• 17 September – Jacobite rising: In Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.
• 21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.
• Autumn – Meikleour Beech Hedges planted.
• 13–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle, across the English border.
• December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
• 4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach as far south in England as Derby causing panic in London.
• 6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.
• 18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish, the last action between two military forces on English soil.
• 23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
• Prospectus issued for "The Company for Improving the Linen Manufactury in Scotland", which becomes the British Linen Bank.

  Births

• 12 May – William Creech, bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh
• 24 May – Thomas Potter, industrialist, founder of Denmark's first iron foundry
• 23 June – James Graham, quack doctor
• 26 July – Henry Mackenzie, novelist, writer, poet and lawyer
• William Cruikshank, anatomist and chemist
• Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter
• Approximate date – Sydney Parkinson, botanical illustrator

  Deaths

• Spring – William Meston, poet
• May – Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange, abductee