1765 in Scotland

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s;
See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1765 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.

Incumbents

May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,^[1] an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.^[2]
Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.

11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)

First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".^[4]
Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 323. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 80.
^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781474436281.
^ Percy, Thomas (ed.). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. (sic.)