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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1864 }}Events from the year 1864 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
- Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond
Events - 21 June – last public execution in Edinburgh – George Bryce, the Ratho murderer.[1]
- 19 July – Chalmers Hospital opened in Banff, Aberdeenshire.[2]
- 2 September – the first Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye is launched by Robert Napier and Sons on the River Clyde.
- 8 December – James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.[3]
- Hall, Russell & Company established as marine engineers in Aberdeen.
- The National Bank of Scotland becomes the first Scottish bank to open an office in London.[4]
- Historian John Hill Burton publishes The Scot Abroad.
Births - 2 January – James Caird, shipowner (died 1954 in England)
- 17 January – David Torrence, film actor (died 1951)
- 5 February – Marion Gilchrist, medical doctor (died 1952)
- 6 February – John Henry Mackay, anarchist writer (died 1933 in Germany)
- 14 February – James Burns, shipowner (died 1919)
- 8 March – James Craig Annan, photographer (died 1946)
- 28 May – Jessie Newbery, née Rowat, embroiderer (died 1948 in England)
- 10 June – Ninian Comper, Gothic Revival architect (died 1960 in England)
- 7 October – Harrington Mann, painter (died 1937 in the United States)
- 31 October – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945 in England)
- 4 November – Robert Lorimer, architect (died 1929)[5]
- 13 December – John Quinton Pringle, painter (died 1925)
Deaths - 6 January – John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798)
- 1 June – Sir John Watson Gordon, portrait painter (born 1788)
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1864 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|accessdate=2014-05-12}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nhsgrampian.org/nhsgrampian/gra_display_simple_index.jsp?pContentID=499&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&|title=Chalmers Hospital - Banff|publisher=NHS Grampian|date=2013-11-15|accessdate=2014-05-12}}
3. ^{{cite journal|doi=10.1098/rstl.1865.0008|last=Maxwell|first=J. Clerk|title=A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field|url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field.pdf|format=PDF|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|location=London|volume=155|pages=459–512|year=1865|accessdate=2013-06-17}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=The National Bank of Scotland 1825-1925|year=1925}}
5. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Christopher Hussey|last=Hussey|first=Christopher|title=The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer|publisher=Country Life|year=1931}}
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