1860 in Scotland

Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond

Events

 * 15 September – King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
 * October – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
 * 17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).
 * 21 December – St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated.
 * Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
 * Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.
 * Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.

Births

 * 6 March – Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia (died 1934)
 * 7 March – John Duncan Watson, civil engineer (died 1946 in Birmingham)
 * 22 March – John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
 * 15 April – Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
 * 2 May
 * John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
 * D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
 * 9 May – J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
 * 30 May – Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
 * 3 July – William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
 * 31 July – George Warrender, admiral (died 1917 in London)
 * 3 August – William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France (died 1935 in Twickenham, England)
 * 19 August – John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States)
 * 25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (died 1908 in France)
 * 21 November – James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
 * 26 November – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (died 1932)
 * James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
 * James Miller, architect (died 1947)

Deaths

 * 27 January – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
 * 25 March – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
 * 1 April – William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
 * 25 August – William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
 * James Barr, composer (born 1779)