1845 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope

  Events

• 31 July – Aberdeen Railway Bill receives Royal Assent
• 14 August – the Falkirk Herald newspaper is first published
• October – Aberdeen stock exchange formed
• Glasgow Academy founded
• Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall for the Church of Scotland in the Royal Mile
• Scottish Rights of Way Society established
• Publication of the New Statistical Account of Scotland is completed

  Births

• 8 January – James Stedman Dixon, leading coal-mine owner
• 14 February – Cecil Valentine De Vere, born Cecil Valentine Brown, chess player
• 17 March – Robert Fleming, financier
• 28 October – Robert Gibb, painter
• David Forsyth, chess player
• James Manson, locomotive engineer

  Deaths

• 7 August – Robert Graham, physician and botanist
• 30 September – Robert Forsyth, writer
• 26 October – Carolina Nairne, songwriter

  Sport

• Penicuik hosts the inaugural Grand Match in curling, between the north and the south of Scotland.