1860 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.

Incumbents

15 September – King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
October – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).^[1]
21 December – St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated.^[2]
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.^[3]
Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.

6 March – Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia (died 1934)
7 March – John Duncan Watson, civil engineer (died 1946 in Birmingham)
22 March – John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
15 April – Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
2 May
- John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
9 May – J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
30 May – Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
3 July – William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
31 July – George Warrender, admiral (died 1917 in London)
3 August – William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France (died 1935 in Twickenham, England)
19 August – John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States)
25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (died 1908 in France)
21 November – James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
26 November – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (died 1932)
James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
James Miller, architect (died 1947)

27 January – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
25 March – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
1 April – William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
25 August – William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
James Barr, composer (born 1779)

^ "Prestwick - 1860". www.theopen.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
^ "A Brief History". Aberdeen: St Mary's Cathedral. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
^ Stewarts and Lloyds Limited 1903–1953. p. 6.