1804 in Scotland

Events from the year 1804 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Charles Hope; then Sir James Montgomery, Bt
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
 * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove, then Lord Granton

Events

 * January – HMS York (1796) founders on patrol off Scotland, apparently striking the Inchcape rock, with the loss of all 491 on board.
 * 5 April – High Possil meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at Possil.
 * 19 August – St Peter's Church, Aberdeen, is dedicated as the city's first purpose-built post-Reformation Roman Catholic church.
 * 14 September – lighthouse on Inchkeith, designed by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, is first illuminated.
 * The Glasgow Herald is first published under this title.
 * Galashiels Baptist Church is established as an independent Baptist congregation.

Births

 * 7 January – George Deas, judge (died 1887)
 * 13 January – John Pringle Nichol, scientist (died 1859)
 * 1 March – John Henderson, ecclesiastical architect (died 1862)
 * 20 June – John Forrest, military doctor (died 1865 in England)
 * 15 July – Jane Stirling, pianist, student of Chopin (died 1859)
 * 18 September – John Steell, sculptor (died 1891)
 * 3 November – Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode, judge (died 1879)
 * Robert Davidson, inventor (died 1894)
 * Alexander McKay, heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer (died of injury sustained in fight 1830 in England)
 * James Mackay, politician in New Zealand (died 1875 in New Zealand)
 * George Thompson, shipowner and politician (died 1895)

Deaths

 * 11 January – James Tytler, editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745; died in the United States)
 * 26 July – Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, politician (born c.1729)
 * 4 August – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, admiral (born 1731; died just south of the border en route to Edinburgh)
 * 23 October – David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, judge (born 1724)

The arts

 * John Galt's poem The Battle of Largs is published anonymously, the author's first published work.
 * David Wilkie paints Pitlessie Fair and William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella.