1764 in Scotland

Events from the year 1764 in Scotland.

Incumbents

3 January – Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
November – The Speculative Society established in Edinburgh as a debating group, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
New Byth established as a planned village in Aberdeenshire by the local laird.
New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.The Communion-Office for the use of the Church of Scotland.
The turnip is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, by Dawson of Frogden (Roxburghshire).{{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=78}}
Howden Bridge built at Mid Calder.
Approximate date – Yair Bridge built across the River Tweed by William Mylne.{{cite web|title=Yair Bridge|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/54446/yair-bridge|work=Canmore|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|date=2007|access-date=2016-01-27}}

c. 1 February – George Duff, naval officer (killed 1805 at Battle of Trafalgar)
22 February – Alexander Campbell, musician and miscellaneous writer (died 1824)
5 May – Robert Craufurd, general (killed 1812 at Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo)
11 July – Jane Aitken, printer (died 1832 in the United States)
5 October – Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist (died 1811 in London)
10 October – John Dick, minister and theologian (died 1833)
October – William Symington, mechanical engineer, steamboat pioneer (died 1831 in London)
6 November – Robert Heron, writer (died 1807 in London)
Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of northern Canada (died 1820)

23 May – William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, politician and judge (born 1701; died at Bath)