1843 in Scotland

Events from the year 1843 in Scotland.

Law officers

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

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 18 May – the Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire.
 * 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.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 25 July – Charles Macintosh, chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics after whom the Mackintosh raincoat is named (born 1766)
 * 5 December – David Hamilton, architect (born 1768)

The arts

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