1845 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1845 in Scotland.

Incumbents

31 July – Aberdeen Railway Bill receives Royal Assent
14 August – the Falkirk Herald newspaper is first published
October – Aberdeen stock exchange formed
Glasgow Academy founded
Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland in the Royal Mile
Scottish Rights of Way Society established
Publication of the New Statistical Account of Scotland is completed
Publication of Robert William Billings' The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland begins.

8 January – James Stedman Dixon, leading coal-mine owner (died 1911)
14 February – Cecil Valentine De Vere, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player (died 1875)
25 February – George Reid, Prime Minister of Australia, later Member of Parliament (UK) (died 1918)
17 March – Robert Fleming, financier (died 1933)
28 October – Robert Gibb, painter (died 1932)
2 December – Alexander Crombie, surgeon (died 1906)
David Forsyth, chess player (died 1909 in New Zealand)
James Manson, locomotive engineer (died 1935)

Penicuik hosts the inaugural Grand Match in curling, between the north and the south of Scotland.