Events from the year 1854 in Scotland.
- 1 January – Victoria Bridge, Glasgow, opened over the River Clyde at Stockwell Street, replacing the Bishop's Bridge.[1]
- July – first voyage by a seagoing steamship fitted with a compound steam engine, the screw steamer Brandon, built on the River Clyde by John Elder.[2]
- 10 August – Merchant Shipping Act 1854 vests management of Scottish lighthouses in the Northern Lighthouse Board (among other provisions).
- 15 September – new North Ronaldsay lighthouse, designed by Alan Stevenson, first illuminated.
- 20 September – Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station opened to serve the Great North of Scotland Railway main line to Keith.
- 11 October – temporary North Unst Lighthouse on Muckle Flugga (Shetland), designed by brothers Thomas and David Stevenson, first illuminated.
- 24 October – The Thin Red Line: a military action by the Sutherland Highlanders red-coated 93rd (Highland) Regiment at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.[3] Pipe Major John MacLeod has during this campaign transcribed the tune "The Green Hills of Tyrol" for the bagpipes.[4]
- November – The Orcadian newspaper begins publication in Kirkwall.
- Brown and Polson's patent corn flour first produced, in Paisley.[5]
- 27 January – George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (died 1913)
- 16 February – Horatio Brown, Nice-born historian of Venice (died 1926 in Italy)
- 25 March – Alexander Reid, art dealer (died 1928)
- 31 March – Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer, inventor of the two-stroke engine (died 1932 in England)
- 17 May – Donald MacAlister, physician and academic (died 1934 in England)
- 8 June – Eustace Balfour, architect (died 1911)
- 21 July – David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (died 1938)
- 21 August – James Paterson, painter (died 1932)
- 17 September – David Dunbar Buick, automobile engineer (died 1929 in the United States)
- 2 October – Patrick Geddes, town planner (died 1932 in France)
- 22 October – Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer (died 1937)
- 27 October – William Alexander Smith, businessman and founder of the Boys' Brigade (died 1914 in England)
- Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (died 1932)
- William Lithgow, shipbuilder (died 1908)
- Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1912-18 (died 1918)
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