1877 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

  Events

• 24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.
• 16 October – the Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.
• 22 October – Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland’s worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.
• 3 December – the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.
• Ex-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant tours his ancestral Scotland.
• The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.
• Cluny Harbour at Buckie is built.
• Wick Harbour breakwater is washed away in a storm for a second time.
• Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
• Manufacture of linoleum at Kirkcaldy begins.
• Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.
• A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.

  Births

• 25 February – John Tait Robertson, international footballer
• 12 May – William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician
• 7 August – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, painter
• 9 November – Helen Crawfurd, suffragette and communist activist
• 26 November – Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller

  Deaths

• 2 January – Alexander Bain, inventor
• 3 February – James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder and Liberal MP
• 14 April – Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist

  The arts

• William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet.
• Robert Louis Stevenson's first published works of fiction appear in magazines.