1833 in Scotland

Events from the year '''1833 in Scotland.'''

Incumbents

16 March – at an auction of the art collection of John Clerk, Lord Eldin at his home in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the floor collapses, killing the banker Alexander Smith.
April – Glasgow Necropolis opened.
10 April – St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.
28 August –– the Slavery Abolition Act receives royal assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners, many of whom are in Scotland.
7 October – the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, Glasgow Emancipation Society and Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society are formed in support of abolitionism.
30 October – Edinburgh Town Council first allows newspaper reporters to attend its meetings.
Burgh Police Act permits burghs to establish themselves as police burghs, having powers to provide policing and to pave and light streets.
Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.
John Menzies is established as a newsagent in Edinburgh.
Madras College is established in St Andrews by merger of the grammar and English schools under the bequest of locally-born educationalist Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell, promoter of the 'Madras system' of education.
Chemist Thomas Graham proposes Graham's law.
Statue of William Pitt the Younger erected in George Street, Edinburgh.
The Royal Perth Golfing Society gains its royal patronage.

May – the final revised edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, edited by Scott's son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, begins publication.
Allan Cunningham's poem The Maid of Elvar is published.