1829 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 8 January – hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke in Edinburgh. His associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released.
• 1 June – Wishaw and Coltness Railway incorporated.
• 23 June – Royal High School, Edinburgh, opens its new building on Calton Hill.
• August – Alexander Duff is ordained into the Church of Scotland, becoming its first missionary to India.
• 2–3 August – the "Muckle Spate", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, washing away many bridges.
• 12 August – founding of Perth in Australia, named in honour of Colonel Sir George Murray, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, born in the Scottish Perth and Member of Parliament for Perthshire.
• September – Timothy Burstall of Leith completes the vertical boiler geared steam locomotive Perseverance for October's Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
• 29 September – foundation stone of Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh is laid.
• Construction of the National Monument of Scotland in Edinburgh, designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, is abandoned due to funds being exhausted, leaving only a row of Doric columns supporting the entablature.
• James Beaumont Neilson's hot blast process for ironmaking is first applied commercially, at Clyde Iron Works, Glasgow.
• Craig & Rose are established as paint manufacturers in Edinburgh.
• Port Charlotte distillery is established on Islay; Auchtermuchty distillery is also established.

  Births

• January – George Rodgers, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient
• 16 February – David Mitchell, builder in Australia, father of Nellie Melba
• 26 March – William Robinson Clark, theologian
• 11 October – George Alexander Drummond, businessman and senator
• 24 October – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian
• 31 October – Andrew Bannatyne, fur trader and politician
• 9 November – Peter Lumsden, British Indian Army general
• 13 November – Simon Somerville Laurie, educationalist
• 31 December – Alexander Smith, Spasmodic poet
• George Corson, architect
• George Gordon, water engineer
• George Yule, merchant and President of the Indian National Congress

  Deaths

• 3 January – Robert Archibald Smith, composer
• 12 September – Alexander Balfour, novelist

  The arts

• April–September – the composer Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain, including the ruined chapel at Holyrood Palace, which inspires his Symphony No. 3 and his trip to Fingal's Cave.
• Edwin Henry Landseer paints An Illicit Whisky Still in the Highlands.
• Sir Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein, "by the author of Waverley", is published.