1865 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1865 in Scotland.

Incumbents

16 January – new fishing harbour at St Monans completed.
3 March – Thomas Sutherland founds the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
28 July – English general practitioner Edward William Pritchard becomes the last person publicly hanged in Glasgow (on Glasgow Green), for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law in the city.^[1]
6 October – the iron cargo/passenger steamer Agamemnon is launched by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. Equipped with an efficient compound steam engine, she pioneers trade by steam to the Far East.
30–31 December – 24 vessels are wrecked around the Dubh Artach reef in a storm.
165 emigrants leave the island of Raasay for Australia.
Joseph Lister begins to experiment with antiseptic surgery in Glasgow using carbolic acid.^[2]
Fourth cholera pandemic reaches Scotland.
James Clerk Maxwell (who this year moves back to the family home at Glenlair House) publishes A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.^[2]
Amhuinnsuidhe Castle on Harris is built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore by David Bryce.^[3]

28 March – Mary Findlater, novelist (died 1963)
27 April – Archibald Leitch, architect, most famous for his work designing stadia throughout the British Isles (died 1939)
28 June – David Young Cameron, painter (died 1945)
17 October – Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (died 1933)
6 November – William Boog Leishman, military physician (died 1926)
William Gillies, nationalist (died 1932)

Thomas Faed's painting The Last of the Clan is first exhibited
Gaelic poet William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe)'s collection Duain agus Orain is published in Glasgow^[5]
George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen is published

^ Bruce, Leighton (21 November 2005). "A deadly beside manner". The Scotsman.
^ ^a ^b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1865". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ "The History". Amhuinnsuidhe Castle. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
^ "John Richardson". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Library and Archive Canada. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.