Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair

Judiciary edit

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield

• 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.^[1]
• Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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.

• 17 January – Duddingston Curling Society formally organised.^[2]

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1795 in Great Britain