Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.

• 5 January – Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
• 13 January – the story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
• 27 March – the Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.^[1]
• 13 September – the Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
• October – the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).^[2]
• 22 November – the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.^[3]
• The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.^[4]
• Construction of Inverness Cathedral is finished.
• An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.^[5]
• The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
• Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.^[6]
• Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.

• 14 January – Dennis Eadie, character actor (died 1928)
• 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
• 14 February – Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
• 17 April – Robert Robertson, chemist (died 1949)
• 11 June – Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)

• 11 July – William Jerdan, journalist (born 1782)
• 20 September – George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (born 1803; suicide)

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1869 in Ireland