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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}{{Year in Scotland| 1969 }}Events from the year 1969 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}- Monarch – Elizabeth II
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross
Law officers - Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay
Events - 6 January – closure of the Waverley Line (the Edinburgh–Galashiels–Hawick–Carlisle railway) and The St. Andrews Railway (the branch line from Leuchars).
- 8 February – unusual aurora borealis seen over Scotland.
- 17 March – the Longhope life-boat in Orkney is lost; the entire crew of 8 dies.
- 27 March – first ordination of a woman in the Church of Scotland, Catherine McConnachie by the Presbytery of Aberdeen.[1]
- 28 April – Gordon Gray, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, is elevated to Cardinal of the Catholic Church; the first resident cardinal in Scotland for almost 400 years.[2]
- 9 May – formation in Glasgow of the Scottish Minorities Group to campaign for the decriminalisation of gay sexual practices in Scotland.
- 17 May – Scotland beats Cyprus 8-0 in a World Cup Qualifier at Hampden Park.[3]
- May – Ross Pit at Brora is closed by a fire.[4]
- 1 July – John Lennon, Yoko Ono and their children are hospitalised at Golspie following a car accident while on holiday.[5]
- September – the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland (chaired by Lord Wheatley) reports, recommending a major reorganisation of local government in Scotland substantially as carried out in 1975 under terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
- 9 October – Backwater Reservoir opened to supply the Dundee area.
- 30 October – Glasgow Gorbals by-election: Labour retains the seat but the SNP takes second place from the Conservatives.
- 30 December – the Linwood bank robbery occurs in Linwood, Renfrewshire and three police officers are shot in the aftermath, two fatally.[6]
- The policies of Culzean Castle become Scotland's first country park.
Births - 1 January – Paul Lawrie, golfer and journalist
- 13 January – Stephen Hendry, snooker player
- 6 March – Neil Findlay, Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament
- April – Kenny Alexander, businessman
- 24 April – Eilidh Whiteford, Scottish National Party Member of Parliament
- 24 July – Gordon Bell, singer-songwriter working in Switzerland
- 11 August – Ashley Jensen, actress
- 25 August – Catriona Matthew, golfer
- 28 September – Angus Robertson, Scottish National Party Member of Parliament
- 13 November – Gerard Butler, actor
- 5 December – Lynne Ramsay film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the films Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk about Kevin
- 7 December – James Murray, boxer (died 1995)
- 18 December – Irvin Duguid, keyboard player (Stiltskin)
- 24 December – Mark Millar, comic book writer
- Tom Urie, actor
Deaths - 10 May – John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan, international rugby player and Liberal politician (born 1901)
- 7 September – Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author (born 1914)
- 6 December – Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh, Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician (born 1889)
The arts- George Mackay Brown's short stories A Time to Keep and collected writings An Orkney Tapestry are published.
- Tom Leonard's Six Glasgow Poems are published.
- The cultural magazine New Edinburgh Review begins publication.
See also References 1. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBCH2wXyjmsC&pg=PA33&dq=Catherine+McConnachie+Presbytery+of+Aberdeen&lr=&ei=SlYfSsDAB4akNfHWleIP&client=firefox-a|title=In Good Company: Women in the Ministry|editor=MacLeod, Iain Orr |first=Jean|last=Mayland|chapter=Pilgrimage to Priesthood and Beyond|location=Glasgow|publisher=Wild Goose|isbn= 1-901557-15-4|year=1999|page=33| accessdate= 1 February 2011 }} 2. ^{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bgrayg|Gordon Joseph "Cardinal" Gray|30 September 2010}} 3. ^Results www.scottishfa accessed 17 March 2013. 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/brora/|title=Brora Coalfield|publisher=Northern Mine Research Society|accessdate=2016-08-20}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=John Lennon crashes his car in Scotland|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/07/01/john-lennon-crashes-his-car-in-scotland/|work=The Beatles Bible|date=1969-07-01|accessdate=2013-10-24}} 6. ^Herald article.
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