1845 in Scotland

Events from the year 1845 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

 * 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.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 7 August – Robert Graham, physician and botanist (born 1786)
 * 30 September – Robert Forsyth, writer (born 1766)
 * 26 October – Carolina Nairne, songwriter (born 1766)

Sport

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