1828 in Scotland

• Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope

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

• 7 January – Rev. Henry Duncan describes his discovery of the fossil footmarks of quadrupeds (Chelichnus duncani) in Permian red sandstone at Cornockle Muir, near Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, the first scientific report of a fossil track, in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.{{cite journal|first=Henry|last=Duncan|title=An Account of the Tracks and Footmarks of Animals found impressed on Sandstone in the Quarry of Cornockle Muir in Dumfriesshire|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|volume=11|issue=1|date=January 1828|pages=194–209|doi=10.1017/S0080456800021906|s2cid=131478019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKNbAAAAcAAJ&q=Transactions+%22Royal+Society+of+Edinburgh%22+1828+duncan+tracks&pg=PA194|access-date=2016-04-17}} Published 1831.
• 9 March – an English gang make off with £28,350 after holding up the Glasgow branch of the Greenock Bank.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |access-date=2014-08-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044706/https://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm |archive-date=8 August 2014 }}
• April – David Stow opens his Drygate model school in Glasgow.{{cite ODNB|last=Morse|first=Elizabeth J.|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26609|title=Stow, David (1793–1864)|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26609|access-date=2015-11-07}}
• 15 June – 28 people are killed when the north gallery of the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy, collapses during a sermon by popular preacher Edward Irving.
• 8 August – the Ballochney Railway (near Airdrie, horse worked) is completed throughout.{{cite book|author-link1=David Octavius Hill|first1=David Octavius|last1=Hill|first2=George|last2=Buchanan|author-link2=George Buchanan (engineer born 1790)|title=Views of the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. Also an Account of That and Other Railways in Lanarkshire|location=Edinburgh|year=1832}}
• 10 September – first public demonstration of Rev. Patrick Bell's reaping machine on his family's farm.{{cite web|title=The Reverend Patrick Bell|url=http://iainthepict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/reverend-patrick-bell.html|work=On this day in Scotland|date=2011-04-22|access-date=2016-03-10}}
• 17–24 December – Burke and Hare murders trial in Edinburgh:{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims (up to 31 October) to provide bodies for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox; his accomplice William Hare is released having turned King's evidence.
• Inhabitants of the island of Muck emigrate to Nova Scotia.{{cite book|chapter=Muck|title=The Scottish Islands|first=Hamish|last=Haswell-Smith|page=132|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXFwKl5gVqwC&pg=SA3-PA20 |edition=Rev.|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Canongate|year=2008|isbn=9781847672773|access-date=2014-09-10}}
• St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, is completed{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|access-date=2014-08-02|archive-date=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|url-status=dead}} to the design of William Henry Playfair.
• Caird & Company established by John Caird in Greenock as marine engineers.
• James Beaumont Neilson patents the hot blast process for ironmaking.{{cite book|first=W.K.V.|last=Gale|title=Ironmaking|location=Princes Risborough|publisher=Shire Publications|year=1981|isbn=0-85263-546-X|page=22}}
• A steam road coach constructed by James and George Naysmith runs between Leith and Queensferry.
• Glasgow Co-operative Society established.{{cite book|page=151|first=George|last=Chamier|title=When it Happened in Scotland|publisher=Constable|location=London|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84901-006-1}}

• 4 April – Mrs. Oliphant, born Margaret Wilson, novelist and historical writer (died 1897 in London)
• 16 August – John Waddell, railway contractor (died 1888)
• 30 September – John Simpson Knox, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1897 in England)
• 5 October – Alexander Gunn, grocery wholesaler (died 1907 in Canada)
• 1 November – Balfour Stewart, physicist (died 1887 in Ireland)
• 13 December – Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand, judge (died 1904)
• Alexander Crum, textile printer and Liberal politician (died 1893)
• Robert Doull, merchant and politician (died 1906 in Canada)
• John Small, librarian and scholar (died 1886)

• 29 February – John Ainslie, cartographer (born 1745)
• 11 June – Dugald Stewart, Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
• 5 July – Andrew Duncan, physician (born 1744)
• 20 December – Archibald Fletcher, reforming lawyer (born 1746)
• Robert Blair, astronomer (born 1748)
• William Drummond of Logiealmond, diplomat and philosopher (born c.1770)

• The Maitland Club is founded in Glasgow to edit and publish early Scottish texts.{{cite book|title=History of the Maitland Club|volume=80|year=1859}}
• The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell is published.{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series) is published.

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• 1828 in Ireland

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