1810 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1810 }}
Events from the year 1810 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 25 March – the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others.{{cite web|title=Chronology of Scottish History|work=A Timeline of Scottish History|publisher=Rampant Scotland|url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm|access-date=2014-03-10}}
- 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.
- 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives.The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3.
- 19 December – Frigates {{HMS|Nymphe|1780|6}} and {{HMS|Pallas|1804|6}} are wrecked near Dunbar.{{cite web|url=https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Isle-of-May/|publisher=Northern Lighthouse Board|title=Isle of May|access-date=2014-08-27}}
- Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing.
- Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church.{{cite book|last=Bertie|first=David M.|year=2000|title=Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000|location=Edinburgh|publisher=T. & T. Clark|isbn=0-567-08746-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ceey5RQHgHoC&pg=PA660 |page=659}}
Births
- 5 February – John Muir, Indologist (died 1882)
- 2 April – Thomas Balfour, politician (died 1838)
- 19 June – Charles Wilson, architect (died 1863)
- August – William Miller, poet (died 1872)
- 19 August – Edward Ellice, Liberal politician (died 1880)
- 22 September – John Brown, physician and essayist (died 1882)
- 12 October – Alexander Bain, inventor (died 1877)
- 8 December – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (died 1883)
- Andrew Findlater, editor (died 1885)
- John Notman, architect in the United States (died 1865)
Deaths
- 17 May – Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet" (born 1774)
- John Finlay, poet (born 1782)
- Probable date – William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor
The arts
- Jane Porter's historical novel about William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, is published.
- Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is published.