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Events from the year 1883 in Scotland.

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour

• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse

• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

• 20 January – Fenian dynamite campaign: In Glasgow, bombs explode at Tradeston Gasworks, Possil Street Bridge and Buchanan Street railway station; about a dozen people are injured.

• 28 April – the first rugby sevens tournament is played at Melrose RFC.

• 3 June – Sabbatarian riot at Stromeferry: the local fishing community prevent the loading of fish (caught by east coast fishermen) from Stornoway ships to railway on a Sunday.

• 3 July – SS Daphne sinks on launch at Alexander Stephen and Sons' Linthouse shipyard, leaving 124 dead.

• 29 August – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library in the world, is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline.

• 4 October – the Boys' Brigade is founded in Glasgow.

• November–December – the Tay Whale (a humpback) appears in the Firth of Tay; on 31 December it is harpooned but escapes, dying later.

• Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank at Dumbarton completed.

• Edinburgh Mathematical Society founded.

• Curling

  • Scotland's first boys' club is established in Wanlockhead.

• Rugby union

  • Scotland take part in the inaugural Home Nations Championship.
  • Scotlands first home international game played at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh.
  • First match against Wales, hosted at St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea; Scotland win by three goals to one.

• 17 January – Compton Mackenzie, author and co-founder in 1928 of the Scottish National Party (born in England; died 1972)

• 27 January – James Lithgow, industrialist (died 1952)

• 24 March – Dorothy Campbell, golfer (died 1945 in the United States)

• 12 April – Francis Cadell, Colourist painter (died 1937)

• 15 May – Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, British Army officer and Unionist politician (killed in action 1915 in France)

• 5 June – Mary Helen Young, nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (died 1945 in Germany)

• 9 July – John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (died 1944)

• 21 August – Victor Fortune, British Army officer (died 1949)

• 17 October – A. S. Neill, educationalist (died 1973 in England)

• 17 December – David Powell, stage and silent film actor (died 1925 in the United States)

• 27 March – John Brown, royal servant (born 1826)

• 8 May – John Miller, civil engineer (born 1805)

• 20 May – William Chambers, publisher and politician (born 1800)

• 2 July – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (born 1810)

• 9 August – Robert Moffat, missionary (born 1795)

• David Rhind, architect (born 1808)

• James Guthrie paints A Hind's Daughter and To Pastures New.

• Timeline of Scottish history

• 1883 in Ireland