1835 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William IV

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until April; then John Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Duncan McNeill; then John Cunninghame

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

  Events

• 21 January – Airdrie Savings Bank opens its doors to business; it will remain as an independent trustee savings bank until 2017.
• 29 May – the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland confirms the Veto Act which allows a majority of heads of families to exclude a presentee from a parish, legislation which is subsequently ruled as invalid.
• 3 July – Slamannan Railway authorised.
• 21 July – Paisley and Renfrew Railway authorised.
• Alloa Coal Company established as a partnership by William Mitchell and others to work coal pits in Clackmannanshire.
• Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period in geology.
• An edition of the Chronicle of Melrose edited by Joseph Stevenson is published in Edinburgh for the Bannatyne Club.

  Births

• 28 January – Robert Herbert Story, minister of the Church of Scotland and Principal of the University of Glasgow
• February – James Davis, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 9 February – John Malcolmson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 3 March – William Fraser Rae, journalist and author
• 19 March – Edmund Montgomery, philosopher, scientist and physician
• 29 March
• * Madeleine Smith, socialite, accused in a murder trial
• * James Taylor, tea planter
• 5 April – Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel, diplomat and Conservative politician
• 3 May – Edward Hargitt, ornithologist and landscape painter
• 18 May – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief
• 28 May – James Small, laird
• 17 June – James Brunton Stephens, poet
• 20 June – Andrew Tennant, pastoralist
• 11 July – John Macvicar Anderson, architect
• 15 July – Louisa Stevenson, campaigner for women's rights
• 21 July – Robert Munro, archaeologist
• 27 July – William Boyd Stewart, minister of the Baptist church and educationalist
• 18 August – Robert Murdoch Smith, military engineer, archaeologist and diplomat
• 5 September – Thomas Cadell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 2 October – James Stirling, steam locomotive engineer
• 25 October – William McTaggart, marine painter
• 15 November – Archibald Scott Cleghorn, businessman who marries into the royal family of Hawaii
• 25 November – Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist
• 13 December – Archibald Hamilton Charteris, minister of the Church of Scotland and theologian
• 28 December – Archibald Geikie, geologist
• James Park, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Mungo Park, golfer

  Deaths

• 14 April – Joseph Grant, poet
• 5 June – Sir William Honyman, Lord Armadale, landowner and judge
• 5 August – Thomas M'Crie the elder, minister of the church and historian
• 16 September – Henry Belfrage, minister of the Secession church
• 2 October – John Mackay Wilson, writer
• 1 November – William Motherwell, poet
• 9 November – Michael Scott, author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cringle
• 21 November – James Hogg, "the Ettrick shepherd", poet and novelist
• 21 December – Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, agriculturalist, politician, economist and statistician

  The arts

• 26 September – première of Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor in Naples.
• 30 December – première of Donizetti's opera Maria Stuarda at La Scala in Milan.
• Hugh Miller publishes Scenes and Legends in the North of Scotland.