1804 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1804 in Scotland.

Incumbents

January – HMS York (1796) founders on patrol off Scotland, apparently striking the Inchcape rock, with the loss of all 491 on board.^[1]
5 April – High Possil meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at Possil.^[2]
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.^[3]
The Glasgow Herald is first published under this title.^[4]
Galashiels Baptist Church is established as an independent Baptist congregation.^[5]

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)

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)

^ Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
^ Faithfull, John (2005). "The High Possil Meteorite". Glasgow: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Inchkeith". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
^ Terry, Stephen (2011). "Chapter 2". Glasgow Almanac: An A–Z of the City and Its People. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 9781903238639.
^ "The History of Galashiels Baptist Church: 1782-1900". Galashiels Baptist Church. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.