1860 in Scotland

Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

15 September – King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
October – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open.
21 December – St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen is dedicated.
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.
Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.

Births

6 March – Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia
7 March – John Duncan Watson, civil engineer
22 March – John George Bartholomew, cartographer
15 April – Edward Arthur Walton, painter
2 May
* John Scott Haldane, physiologist
* D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist
9 May – J. M. Barrie, author
30 May – Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter
3 July – William Wallace, composer
31 July – George Warrender, admiral
3 August – William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France
19 August – John Kane, naïve painter
25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia
21 November – James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker
26 November – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter
James Colton, anarchist
James Miller, architect

Deaths

27 January – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer
25 March – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist
1 April – William Mure, scholar and politician
25 August – William Wilson, poet and publisher
James Barr, composer