1792 in Scotland

Events from the year 1792 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
 * Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield

Events

 * "Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
 * 4 June – King's birthday riot in Edinburgh.
 * 26 July – Associated Friends of the People for Parliamentary Reform constituted in Edinburgh.
 * 13 November – Successes of the French Revolutionary Army are celebrated with bonfires and bell-ringing in Dundee and Perth causing the 42nd Regiment of Foot to be sent north to the towns.
 * 11 December – First National Convention of the Scottish Friends of the People meets in Edinburgh to demand parliamentary reform.
 * The first steam winding engine at a Scottish colliery is erected at Barrachnie in the Monklands coalfield.
 * Clachan Bridge, connecting Seil to the mainland, is built to the design of John Stevenson of Oban revised by Robert Mylne.

Births

 * 19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
 * 22 June – James Beaumont Neilson, ironmaster (died 1865)
 * 4 August – Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church (died 1834)
 * 20 October – Colin Campbell, army officer (died 1863)
 * date unknown – John Gillies, botanist (died 1834)

Deaths

 * January – Jenny Clow ("Clarinda"), domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns, of tuberculosis (born 1766)
 * 3 March – Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
 * 10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1713)
 * 29 April – George Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess of Annandale (born 1720)
 * 25 June – John Adam, architect (born 1721)
 * 18 July – John Paul Jones, Scottish-born sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747)
 * 19 December – Mary Bulkley, actress (born 1747 or 1748 in England)

The arts

 * 29 September – opening of Theatre Royal, Dumfries as The Theatre. By the 21st century this will be the oldest working theatre in Scotland.
 * Robert Burns composes the song "Highland Mary".
 * Publication of The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid.