1794 in Scotland

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10 February – Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, authorized to raise the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot^[1] (first parades 24 June). This year also the Duke becomes Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.
May – Habeas corpus suspended. Robert Watt, who has plotted to seize Edinburgh Castle, is tried and executed for treason.^[2]
November – Irish inventor Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick.^[3]
December – Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens.
Lords lieutenant appointed permanently across Scotland by royal warrant.
Glengarry Fencibles formed by Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, perhaps the first military unit to wear the Glengarry bonnet.
The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, is formed by the Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire (approximate date).
Original Pentland Skerries lighthouse on Muckle Skerry built, engineered by Thomas Smith with the work superintendend by his stepson Robert Stevenson, the latter's first official work for the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses.^[4]
Oban distillery established by brothers John and Hugh Stevenson.

8 May – Robert Burns' song Scots Wha Hae published in The Morning Chronicle.^[6]
25 June – Burns sets out on his second Galloway tour.^[1]
Joseph Ritson's anthology Scottish Song is published.^[7]

^ ^a ^b "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. pp. 80–1.
^ Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 117C. Dublin: 209–35.
^ "Pentland Skerries". Lighthouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ "Thomas Granger". Scottish Architects. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1794". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007. Retrieved 5 June 2007.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.