Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle

Judiciary edit

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton

• 25 March – the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others.^[1]
• 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.^[1]
• 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives.^[2]
• 19 December – Frigates HMS Nymphe and HMS Pallas are wrecked near Dunbar.^[3]
• Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing.
• Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church.^[4]

• 5 February – John Muir, Indologist (died 1882)
• 2 April – Thomas Balfour, politician (died 1838)
• 19 June – Charles Wilson, architect (died 1863)
• August – William Miller, poet (died 1872)
• 19 August – Edward Ellice, Liberal politician (died 1880)
• 22 September – John Brown, physician and essayist (died 1882)
• 12 October – Alexander Bain, inventor (died 1877)
• 8 December – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (died 1883)
• Andrew Findlater, editor (died 1885)
• John Notman, architect in the United States (died 1865)

• 17 May – Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet" (born 1774)
• John Finlay, poet (born 1782)
• Probable date – William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor

• Jane Porter's historical novel about William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, is published.
• Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is published.

• 1810 in Ireland