1784 in Scotland

Events from the year 1784 in Scotland.

Incumbents

9 February – Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland founded as the Highland Society of Edinburgh.
May
* The Buchanites are expelled from Irvine, going on to establish a celibate community at New Cample near Closeburn, Dumfriesshire.
* A dispute arising at the University of Glasgow between Professor John Anderson, the Principal William Leechman and others leads to the self-expulsion of Thomas Muir.
25 & 27 August – apothecary James Tytler makes the first balloon ascents in Great Britain, in a hot air balloon from Edinburgh.
14 November – Samuel Seabury is consecrated at the house of John Skinner, coadjutor bishop of Aberdeen, as first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Highland estates whose revenues were forfeited to the government by their proprietors following the Jacobite rising of 1745 are restored to their legal heirs on discharge of debts. The accrued funds are primarily applied to completion of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
"Wash Act" reduces excise duty on Scotch whisky and provides a definition of the Highland Line.
St Andrew's Church in New Town, Edinburgh, opened.