1765 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
• Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
• Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

  Events

• May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
• Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.
• Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.

  Births

• 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister
• 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman
• 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician
• 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical
• 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath

  Deaths

• 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter
• 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer

  The arts

• Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet presents an alternate history of this year.