1880 in Scotland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1880 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere; Scottish football: 1879–80 • 1880–81

Events from the year 1880 in Scotland.

Incumbents

February – telephones introduced in Edinburgh.^[1]
27 April – 1880 United Kingdom general election: The Liberal Party defeat the Conservatives by a substantial majority following the 'Midlothian campaign' by William Ewart Gladstone who is returned as Member of Parliament for Midlothian and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1 July – the Callander and Oban Railway is opened throughout to Oban.
October – the SS Ferret is fraudulently chartered at Greenock and taken to Australia.^[2]
A. & R. Scott of Glasgow begin producing the predecessor of Scott's Porage Oats.^[3]

29 March – Bobby Templeton, footballer (died 1919)
4 April – William Russell Flint, watercolourist (died 1969)
30 April – Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, cartoonist (died 1967)
6 May – Edmund Ironside, British Army officer (died 1959)
14 May – B. C. Forbes, financial journalist (died 1954 in the United States)
1 July – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (died 1935)
13 August – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921)
September – Peter Kyle, footballer (died 1961)
23 September – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
15 October – Marie Stopes, author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control (died 1958)
18 October – Alexander Livingstone, Liberal politician (died 1950)
Margaret McCoubrey, suffragette and pacifist in Belfast (died 1955 in Northern Ireland)
Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (died 1933)
Preston Watson, aviator (killed in military aviation accident 1915)

William McGonagall produces his doggerel poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" to commemorate the previous December's Tay Bridge disaster.

^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
^ "The Ferret Case". The Argus. Melbourne. 9 May 1881. p. 1S.
^ "Scott's Porage – Our Heritage". Scott's Porage Oats. Archived from the original on 23 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.