1770 in Scotland

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s;
See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1770 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1770 in Scotland.

Incumbents

12 April – Monkland Canal authorized.
9 March – Haggis is served on board Captain James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour, anchored off New Zealand, in celebration of the birthday of a Scottish officer on board, Cook himself having a Scottish father.^[1]
14 November – Scottish explorer James Bruce is shown the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.^[1]
Emigrants from the Highland Clearances in the Hebrides migrate to Prince Edward Island, and to Glasgow where the Gaelic-speaking congregation of St Columba Church of Scotland is formed.
Montgomery's Entail Act remedies the system of short leases on agricultural properties.^[2]
Plans for improvement of the harbour at Dundee proposed by John Smeaton^[3] and Glasgow Town Council begins deepening the navigable River Clyde.^[2]
Approximate date
- Bridge at Bridge of Weir constructed at Burngill.
- Harbour at Charlestown, Fife, begun by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
- The Fordell Railway constructed in Fife.

2 February – George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836 in London)
c. 25 March – Alexander Carse, genre painter (died 1843)
18 April – William Nicol, geologist (died 1851)
9 December (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (died 1835)

c. January – William Falconer, poet and marine dictionary compiler (born 1732; lost at sea)
27 July – Robert Dinwiddie, colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693; died in Virginia)
1 November – Alexander Cruden, Biblical scholar (born 1699; died in London)
9 November – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Whig politician (born c. 1693)
5 December – James Stirling, mathematician (born 1692)
Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (born c. 1698)

^ ^a ^b "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 80.
^ McKean, Charles; Whatley, Patricia (2008). Lost Dundee: Dundee's Lost Architectural Heritage. Edinburgh: Birlinn. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-84158-562-8.