1704 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Anne
• Secretary of State –
• * until October: James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, jointly with George Mackenzie, 1st Viscount Tarbat
• * from October: John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Prestonhall, then Lord Whitelaw

  Events

• 5 August – Parliament of Scotland passes the Act of Security 1704 in response to the Parliament of England's Act of Settlement 1701, allowing the Scottish Parliament to select its own successor to the monarch.
• 10 September – Lower Largo-born sailor Alexander Selkirk chooses to be marooned from a privateer ship in the Juan Fernández Islands.
• 20 September – Dunkeld is erected a royal burgh.

  Births

• 30 April – Jean Adam, poet
• 7 September – John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun
• date unknown
• * William Hamilton, Jacobite poet
• * William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock
• * Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

  Deaths

• 4 January – Sir Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts
• 6 March – George Seton, 4th Earl of Winton
• 13 June – Arthur Rose, prelate
• date unknown – Lilias Adie, accused witch