Events from the year 1504 in England.

• Monarch – Henry VII
• Lord Chancellor – William Warham
• Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe
• Secretary of State – Thomas Ruthall

• 18 February – Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales following the death of his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Wales two years earlier
• March – Private liveried retainers banned as part of a clampdown on the feudal tradition
• Silver shilling is the first English coin to be minted bearing a recognisable portrait of the King.

• Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)
• Nicholas Udall, playwright and schoolmaster (died 1556)
• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553)

• Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)
• John Paston, soldier and public official (born 1444)
• William Danvers, judge (born 1428)