1795 in Scotland

Events from the year 1795 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 Duke of Montrose
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield

Events

 * 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.
 * Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)

The arts

 * 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.

Sport

 * 17 January – Duddingston Curling Society formally organised.