1800 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove

  Events

• 1 January – Robert Owen becomes manager of the New Lanark spinning mills.
• 15 February – "Meal mob" riot over bread prices in Glasgow.
• 30 June – Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November.
• August – the 93rd Regiment of Foot is first mustered by William Wemyss at Strathnaver; in September they are sent from Fort George via Aberdeen to Guernsey and in October formally gazetted into the British Army.
• Royal Cornhill Hospital established as Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum.
• Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.
• New bridges built at Thurso and Wick and Sir John Sinclair plans development of Thurso.
• Approximate date
• * Planned village and pier at Inchyra in the Carse of Gowrie built.
• * Preston Hall, Midlothian, completed.

  Births

• 12 January – Duncan McLaren, Liberal politician
• 23 February – William Jardine, naturalist
• 10 April – George Moir, lawyer
• 16 April – William Chambers, publisher
• 17 April – Catherine Sinclair, novelist
• 22 April – Ralph Robb, Free Church minister in Canada
• 26 April – Elizabeth Sinclair, born Eliza McHutcheson, pioneer in Pacific colonies
• 4 May – John McLeod Campbell, Reformed theologian
• 11 July – Charles Lees, portrait painter
• 3 September – James Braidwood, firefighter
• 14 October – Charles Neaves, judge and poet
• 24 October – Alexander Gibson, surgeon and forest conservator in India
• Leitch Ritchie, writer

  Deaths

• 30 January – William Forsyth, merchant
• 16 March – David Doig, educator and writer
• 8 April – James Stuart-Mackenzie, politician and astronomer
• 27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters
• 30 December – Duke Gordon, librarian

  The arts

• 14 June – Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.
• 27 November – Walter Scott's first original poems, "Glenfinlas" and "The Eve of St. John", are published.
• The Works of Robert Burns is published posthumously.