1792 in Scotland
Events from the year 1792 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
- Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield
Events
- "Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
- 4 June – King's birthday riot in Edinburgh.
- 26 July – Associated Friends of the People for Parliamentary Reform constituted in Edinburgh.
- 13 November – Successes of the French Revolutionary Army are celebrated with bonfires and bell-ringing in Dundee and Perth causing the 42nd Regiment of Foot to be sent north to the towns.
- 11 December – First National Convention of the Scottish Friends of the People meets in Edinburgh to demand parliamentary reform.
- The first steam winding engine at a Scottish colliery is erected at Barrachnie in the Monklands coalfield.
- Clachan Bridge, connecting Seil to the mainland, is built to the design of John Stevenson of Oban revised by Robert Mylne.
- Inverness Royal Academy opened as a co-educational school.
Births
- 19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist
- 22 June – James Beaumont Neilson, ironmaster
- 4 August – Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church
- 20 October – Colin Campbell, army officer date unknown – John Gillies, botanist
Deaths
- January – Jenny Clow, domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns, of tuberculosis
- 3 March – Robert Adam, architect
- 10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 29 April – George Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess of Annandale
- 25 June – John Adam, architect
- 18 July – John Paul Jones, Scottish-born sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution
- 19 December – Mary Bulkley, actress
The arts
- 29 September – opening of Theatre Royal, Dumfries as The Theatre. By the 21st century this will be the oldest working theatre in Scotland.
- Robert Burns composes the song "Highland Mary".
- Publication of The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid.