1894 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/07/06/106911287.pdf|title=The Yacht Valkyrie sunk|date=1894-07-06|format=pdf|access-date=2012-04-22}}
- 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
- July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
- 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=John|author-link=John Thomas (author)|title=The West Highland Railway|year=1965|publisher=David & Charles|location=Dawlish}}
- 25 August – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
- December – Longmorn distillery begins production.
- Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
- Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
- Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.
- Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
- Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.
Births
- 26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
- 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
- 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)
- 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
- 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
- Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)
- R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)
Deaths
- 3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
- 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/c7379dd2-0908-4ef0-9bd5-9910b16aaaad|title=Robert Louis Stevenson|publisher=BBC|access-date=2013-05-27}}
- Alexander Henry, gun maker and rifle volunteer (born 1818)
The arts
- Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.{{cite book|first=John|last=Sutherland|author-link=John Sutherland (author)|title=Bestsellers: a very short introduction|url=https://archive.org/details/bestsellersverys00suth_482|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-921489-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/bestsellersverys00suth_482/page/n99 85]}}
- Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.