1793 in Scotland

Events from the year 1793 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

2 January – Radical Thomas Muir of Huntershill arrested on a charge of sedition but released on bail.
20 July – Stornoway-born explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.
17 August – 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) raised at Fort William from members of Clan Cameron by Alan Cameron of Erracht.
24 August – Thomas Muir arrested at Portpatrick on his return from France.
31 August – Thomas Muir sentenced to penal transportation for 14 years.
Little Cumbrae Lighthouse built.
Piershill Barracks in Edinburgh and Queen's Barracks in Perth completed, originally for cavalry regiments.

Births

6 March – William Dick, founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College
3 April – Alexander Nicoll, Orientalist
1 June – Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymn-writer
James Browne, man of letters

Deaths

5 January – John Howie, biographer
2 February – William Aiton, botanist
20 March – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician
2 April or May – Colin Macfarquhar, bookseller and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica
11 June – William Robertson, historian and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
16 October – John Hunter, surgeon
James Small, inventor

The arts

27 July – Robert Burns sets out on his first Galloway tour.
August – Burns writes "Scots Wha Hae".