1892 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian, until 11 August; then Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir Charles Pearson until August; then John Blair Balfour
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Murray; then Alexander Asher

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 29 January – original bridge at Bonar Bridge swept away by flood
• February – Scottish Universities Commissioners publish an ordinance authorising Scottish universities to provide for the education and graduation of women for the first time
• 9 April – Celtic F.C. win the Scottish Cup for the first time
• 4–18 July – in the general election, Keir Hardie, standing as an independent labour candidate, wins the London seat of West Ham South
• 5 July – Central Library, Aberdeen, opened by Andrew Carnegie
• 6 September – Dundee Whaling Expedition begins
• 8 September – Cunard liner is launched by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan
• 26 November – the original Jenners department store in Edinburgh is destroyed by fire
• Foundation stone of new St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh laid
• Scottish Church Society formed
• New Templeton's Carpet Factory building on Glasgow Green completed

  Births

• 25 March – Andy Clyde, screen actor
• 13 April – Robert Watson-Watt, pioneer of radar
• 11 August – Hugh MacDiarmid, poet
• 2 October – Mab Copland Lineman, attorney in the United States
• 14 November – Nora Connolly O'Brien, Irish political activist, daughter of James Connolly
• 18 November – D. E. Stevenson, romantic novelist
• 14 December – Jimmy McColl, footballer
• 25 December – Dorothy Johnstone, painter

  Deaths

• 28 August – William Forbes Skene, historian and antiquary
• 22 September – George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
• 23 September – George Grub, church historian
• 5 October – Alexander Carnegie Kirk, mechanical engineer

  The arts

• 7 November – Empire Palace Theatre opens in Edinburgh, designed for impresario Edward Moss by Frank Matcham
• First Gaelic mòd, predecessor of the Royal National Mòd, held in Oban