1876 in Scotland

Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson; then John Macdonald

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

 * 14 February – Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.
 * 19 February – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.
 * 5 April – River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
 * 18 June – promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh; this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park.
 * 17 October – St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.
 * 3 November – McLean Museum opens in Greenock.
 * William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
 * Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.

Births

 * 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
 * 13 April – Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959)
 * 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
 * 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
 * 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
 * 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States)
 * 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
 * 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
 * 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
 * 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955)
 * Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)

Deaths

 * 9 January – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843)
 * 22 January – Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806)
 * 3 February – Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813)
 * 24 April – Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany)
 * 7 May – David Bryce, architect (born 1803)
 * 23 June – Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791)
 * 23 December – Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800)