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| c. 1864 |
| | | Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents to the Royal Society his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics, now known collectively as Maxwell's Equations | |
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| 1879 |
| | | An entire train, full of passengers, falls into the river Tay in Scotland when a bridge collapses in a winter gale | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause | |
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| 1890 |
| | | A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom | |
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| 1891 |
| | | A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium | |
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