1876 in Scotland
Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson; then John Macdonald
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 14 February – Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.
- 19 February – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.
- 5 April – River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
- 18 June – promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh; this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park.
- 17 October – St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.
- 3 November – McLean Museum opens in Greenock.
- William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
- Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.
Births
- 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher
- 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer
- 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo
- 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre
- 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name
- 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer
- 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian
- 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon
- Joseph Lee, poet and journalist
Deaths
- 9 January – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian
- 22 January – Sir George Harvey, genre painter
- 3 February – Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer
- 24 April – Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer
- 7 May – David Bryce, architect
- 23 June – Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding"
- 23 December – Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet
