1801 in Scotland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1801 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1801 in Scotland.

Incumbents

1 January – legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.^[1]
10 March – the first British census is carried out (under terms of the Census Act 1800), with the Scottish counts undertaken by schoolmasters. The population of Scotland is determined to be 1,608,420.^[2]
16 March – Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game, designed as a music teaching aid.^[3]
4 June – Soldiers of the Ross and Cromarty Rangers fire on a mob in Aberdeen celebrating the King's birthday, killing two.^[4]
18 July – Crinan Canal opened (although incomplete).^[5]
First complete Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic, Am Bìoball Gàidhlig, is published.
Dundee Courier & Argus first published.^[6]
John Cary publishes A New Map of Scotland.
Second Elgin Academy school building (occupied in modern times by Moray College) constructed.
Edinburgh town council resolves to drain The Meadows.^[7]
John Crabbie of Leith begins to deal in ginger.
Chivas Brothers open a grocery store in Aberdeen which will blend Chivas Regal whisky.

4 January – James Giles, landscape painter (died 1870)
14 January – Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh, letter-writer (died 1866 in London)
2 February – George Maclean, colonial governor (died 1847 in Cape Coast)
31 May – Robert Rankin, timber merchant and shipowner (died 1870 in England)
7 June – Charles Cowan, papermaker and Radical politician (died 1889)
24 June – David Haggart, thief and murderer (hanged 1821)
4 July – James Johnstone, Liberal politician (died 1888)
21 August – Benjamin Boyd, settler in New South Wales (probably killed 1851 ln Guadalcanal)
31 August – William Downe Gillon, Whig politician (died 1846)
7 November – Robert Dale Owen, social reformer (died 1877 in the United States)
Alexander Thom, almanac editor (died 1879 in Ireland)

21 July – Greenock Burns Club is established to honour the memory of poet Robert Burns (died 1796)^[8] and Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns is published.^[9]
James Hogg publishes Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs.^[9]

^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1801". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ "Population of Scotland". GENUKI. 2004. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
^ Raz, Carmel (2018). "Anne Young's Musical Games (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design". SMT-V. 4 (2). Society for Music Theory.
^ Stewart, David (1822). Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland. pp. 427–8.
^ Lindsay, Jean (1968). The Canals of Scotland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 121. ISBN 0-7153-4240-1.
^ "Dundee Courier makes move to compact". BBC News. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
^ "Greenock Burns Club". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.