1867 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – George Patton until February; then Edward Strathearn Gordon
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Strathearn Gordon; then John Millar

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay until 25 February; then Lord Glencorse
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond, then Lord Moncreiff

  Events

• 29 April – the Caledonian Mercury newspaper is last published.
• 9 July – Queen's Park F.C., Scotland's first senior football club, is formed.
• 29 August – John Hill Burton is appointed Historiographer Royal.
• 28 November – opening of Baylis's Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House, Glasgow, which becomes the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in May 1869.
• Edinburgh Crystal glass is first manufactured, by the Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glass Company.
• The West of Scotland Grand National, predecessor of the Scottish Grand National, moves to a new course, Bogside Racecourse near Irvine, North Ayrshire.

  Births

• 26 April – William Barr, landscape painter
• 3 June – George Henry Walton, architect and designer
• 1 August – William Speirs Bruce, naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer
• 26 August – Robert William Hamilton, colonial judge and Liberal politician

  Deaths

• 5 January – Alexander Smith, poet
• 16 January – Alexander Gibson, surgeon and forest conservator in India
• 9 February – John Campbell, surgeon
• 24 June – Horatio McCulloch, landscape painter

  The arts

• January – Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim tour to Edinburgh and Glasgow.