1869 in Scotland
Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff until October; then George Young
- Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young; then Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 5 January – Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
- 13 January – the story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
- 27 March – the Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.
- 13 September – the Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- October – the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so.
- 22 November – the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth, the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.
- Inverness Cathedral is opened for worship as the first new Protestant cathedral to be completed in Great Britain since the Reformation.
- An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.
- The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.
- Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.
Births
- 14 January – Dennis Eadie, character actor
- 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist
- 14 February – Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 17 April – Robert Robertson, chemist
- 11 June – Walford Bodie, stage magician
Deaths
- 11 July – William Jerdan, journalist
- 20 September – George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge