1843 in Scotland

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• Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope

• 18 May – the Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/victorianbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml|title=Victorian Britain|publisher=BBC|access-date=2013-07-30}} Construction of the Triple Kirks in Aberdeen begins.
• 3 June – first burial in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
• 29 June – Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the paddle steamer Vanguard, from his new yard at Govan on the River Clyde.{{cite web|title=PS Vanguard|work=Clydebuilt database|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8183|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316012446/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8183|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-16|access-date=2016-03-15}}
• 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens in Glasgow.
• 13 August – Sir William Dunbar, priest of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, is excommunicated from the Scottish Episcopal Church for refusing to administer or receive the sacrament in accordance with the church's ritual.
• Dingwall becomes the county town of Ross and Cromarty.
• The last laird of Raasay, John Macleod, emigrates to Tasmania having sold the Scottish island to George Rainy to help clear his debts.{{citation |last1=Keay|first1=John|author-link1=John Keay|last2=Keay|first2=Julia|year=1994|title=Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland|location=London|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-00-255082-6|page=797}}
• The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire.{{cite web|title=Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape|first1=Christopher|last1=Fleet|first2=Charles W. J.|last2=Withers|url=http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/os_info1.html|publisher=National Library of Scotland|access-date=2014-09-05}}
• The Glenmorangie distillery is established in Tain by William Matheson.
• Glenburn Hydro is opened in Rothesay, Bute, the first hydropathic establishment in Scotland.
• First paddle steamer on Loch Katrine, Gypsy.
• Little Ross lighthouse completed.
• Angus MacKay becomes first Piper to the Sovereign.
• Marion Kirkland Reid's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh.

• 12 June – David Gill, astronomer known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy (died 1914)
• 5 August – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (died 1927)
• 21 August – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (died 1876)

• 25 July – Charles Macintosh, chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics after whom the Mackintosh raincoat is named (born 1766){{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Lance |last2=McNeil |first2=Ian |title=Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology |date=11 September 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-65019-4 |page=786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&dq=Charles+Macintosh+29+december+1766&pg=PA786 |language=en}}
• 5 December – David Hamilton, architect (born 1768)

• Hill & Adamson form Scotland's first photographic studio, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

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