1815 in Scotland

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• Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

• February/March – foundation stone of Montrose Academy laid.{{cite book|first=Trevor W.|last=Johns|title=The Mid Links, Montrose, since Provost Scott|publisher=Montrose Review Press|year=1988|page=52}}{{cite book|first=Alexander Allan|last=Cormack|title=Susan Carnegie, 1744-1821: her life of service|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|year=1966|page=300}}
• 18 June – Battle of Waterloo: Ensign Charles Ewart of the Royal Scots Greys captures the French Imperial Eagle standard.{{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=2014-02-20}}
• 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens.
• 19 September – foundation stones for Regent Bridge and Calton Jail in Edinburgh laid.{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|access-date=2014-02-20|archive-date=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|url-status=dead}}
• The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is dedicated.
• Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and Crockness Martello tower in Orkney are completed.
• Dunans and Ferness Bridges and Avoch harbour are completed to the designs of Thomas Telford.
• Glenfinnan Monument erected to mark the landing of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745 to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
• Armadale Castle on Skye is built in the style of Scottish Baronial architecture to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
• A Jury Court as a division of the Court of Session is introduced.{{cite web|url=http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/otherSeries.asp|title=Court of Session – other series|publisher=National Archives of Scotland|access-date=2014-02-20|archive-date=18 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218094647/http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/otherSeries.asp|url-status=dead}}
• Regius Professorships at the University of Glasgow in Midwifery and Surgery are established by King George III.
• The Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first mutual life insurance office.
• On Islay, Ardbeg distillery begins commercial production and Laphroaig distillery is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.{{cite web|url=https://www.laphroaigcollector.com/history.htm|title=History|access-date=2014-02-20|publisher=Laphroaig Collector|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921075816/http://laphroaigcollector.com/history.htm|archive-date=2013-09-21|url-status=live}}
• The Clyde Shipping Company is set up by John Henderson, William Croil, Donald McPhee and George Jardine Kidston to provide services by paddle steamer.
• Pringle of Scotland, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the Borders.
• John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family apothecary business in Edinburgh, the predecessor of MacFarlan Smith, and begins to manufacture laudanum.
• Aberdeen Savings Bank is formed.

• 11 January
• John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (died 1891 in Ottawa)
• David Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (died 1886)
• 22 January – William Brodie, sculptor (died 1881)
• 25 March – George Thomson, shipbuilder (died 1866)
• 1 April – William Chalmers Burns, evangelical missionary to China (died 1868)
• 19 May
• Kate Dickens, née Catherine Hogarth, wife of Charles Dickens (died 1879 in London)
• Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1873)
• 11 June – W McEwan, cricketer (died 1862 in Australia)
• 12 June – James Valentine, photographer (died 1879)
• 29 August – James Fenton, railway engineer (died 1863)
• 20 December – James Legge, Congregationalist missionary to China (died 1897 in Oxford)
• Thomas Stuart Smith, painter and benefactor (died 1869 in Avignon)

• 14 January – William Creech, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
• 4 February – John Ferriar, physician and writer (born 1761)
• 9 February – Claudius Buchanan, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born 1766)
• 23 February – William Duff, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born 1732)
• 10 April – William Roxburgh, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born 1751)
• 26 August – John Spalding, politician (born 1763)
• 8 September – Andrew Graham, naturalist
• 28 September – Gilbert Gerard, theological writer (born 1760)
• 9 December – Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, banker and steamboat promoter (born 1730)
• Thomas Keith, soldier (born c.1793)

• Christian Isobel Johnstone's novel Clan-Albin: A National Tale is published.
• Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth, Gaelic folklore collected in 1691/92, is first published.
• Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lord of the Isles and anonymous novel Guy Mannering are published.
• 6-year-old Edgar Allan Poe attends school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1815 in Ireland

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