1844 in Scotland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
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See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1844 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1844 in Scotland.

Incumbents

1 February – Skerryvore lighthouse first lit.
2 May – Commission of Enquiry set up to inquire into the system of poor relief in Scotland and suggest improvements delivers its report, leading to the Scottish Poor Law Act the following year.^[1]
July – Glasgow Stock Exchange opens.
21 August – foundation stone of Political Martyrs' Monument in Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, laid by Joseph Hume.
16 December – Edinburgh Stock Exchange formed.
28 October – the first paddlewheel Jackal-class gunvessel, HMS Jackal (or Jackall) is launched by Robert Napier at Govan on the River Clyde as the Royal Navy's first iron ship. It is followed a month later by its sister HMS Lizard.
James Matheson purchases Isle of Lewis.
North Rona is depopulated.
The Sobieski Stuarts publish The Costume of the Clans. With observations upon the literature, arts, manufactures and commerce of the Highlands and Western Isles during the Middle Ages; and the influence of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries upon their present condition.

8 May – William Alexander Hunter, academic lawyer and Liberal politician (died 1898)
11 May – William Wallace, philosopher (died 1897)
Matthew Holmes, steam locomotive engineer (died 1903)
Janet Milne Rae, née Gibb, novelist (died 1933)

^ "The Workhouse in Scotland". The Workhouse. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
^ Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Ragep, F. Jamil (18 September 2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 482. ISBN 978-0-387-30400-7.