1795 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1795 in Scotland.

Incumbents

18 November – the River Clyde, in spate, floods the centre of Glasgow and brings down the recently erected bridge at the foot of the Saltmarket.^[1]
Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built.

12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada (died 1861 in Canada)
25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844)
19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England)
6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in the United States)
12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist (died 1873)
10 November – Walter Geikie, painter (died 1837)
4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian, philosopher and essayist (died 1881 in England)
10 December – Sir George Burns, shipowner (died 1890)
21 December – Robert Moffat, missionary (died 1883)

22 February – Alexander Gerard, philosopher (born 1728)
19 May – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (born 1740)
23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh (born 1744)
24 June – William Smellie, encyclopedist and naturalist (born 1740)
10 December – John Johnstone, nabob with the East India Company and landowner (born 1734)

Archibald Constable starts in business for himself as a dealer in rare books in Edinburgh, origin of the publishing business which enters the 21st century as Constable & Robinson.

Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm. 25 January 2016. dead. dmy-all.
Web site: Chronology of Scottish History. A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. 2016-01-15.