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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}{{Year in Scotland| 1974}}Events from the year 1974 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 – Gordon Campbell until 4 March; then Willie Ross
Law officers - Lord Advocate – Norman Wylie; then Ronald King Murray
- Solicitor General for Scotland – William Stewart until March; then John McCluskey
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Wheatley
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay
Events - 27 January – {{MV|Captayannis}} capsizes in the Firth of Clyde.
- 28 February – The February general election results in the first hung parliament since 1929, though Labour wins a majority of seats in Scotland. The Scottish National Party make a breakthrough winning 7 MPs.
- March – Brora Coalfield is abandoned.[1]
- 6 May – Inauguration of full electric service on British Rail's West Coast Main Line through to Glasgow Central railway station.[2]
- 10 October – The second general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Prime Minister Harold Wilson, giving Labour a majority of three seats. Labour also wins a majority of seats within Scotland, while the Scottish National Party secures its highest-ever Westminster representation up to this date with 11 seats. It would be 41 years before the SNP would not only beat their own record result; but also replace Labour as the largest political party in Scotland.
- 31 December – Idi Amin, President of Uganda, issues a proclamation in support of Scottish independence.[3]
- Calum MacLeod (of Raasay) completes a 10-year self-imposed task of personally constructing "Calum's Road", a nearly 2 mile (3 km) track at the north end of the island.[4]
- Last permanent inhabitants of Taransay leave.[5]
Births - 15 January – Edith Bowman, DJ
- 17 January – Danny Bhoy, born Danni Chaudhry, comedian
- 23 August – Ray Park, actor
- 20 October – Limmy, born Brian Limond, comedian and social media personality
- 30 October – Kerry McGregor, singer-songwriter and actress
- 31 December – Kathryn Joseph, born Kathryn Sawers, singer-songwriter
Deaths - 24 January – Andrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (born 1888)
- 29 May – James MacTaggart, television producer (born 1928)
The arts- 6 June – a television version of The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil is broadcast by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series.[6]
See also References 1. ^{{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}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Gillham|first=J. C.|title=The Age of the Electric Train: Electric Trains in Britain since 1883|year=1988|publisher=Ian Allan|location=London|isbn=0-7110-1392-6}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/scotnews07/070226_idi.html|title=Uganda: When Amin Was Declared 'King of Scotland' in 1974|last=Guweddeko|first=Fred|work=The Monitor|location=Kampala|date=2007-02-25|accessdate=2014-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225715/http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/scotnews07/070226_idi.html|archive-date=23 May 2014|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}} Accessed from Frost's Scottish Anatomy website.
4. ^{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Hutchinson|authorlink=Roger Hutchinson (writer)|year=2006|title=Calum's Road|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Birlinn|isbn=978-1-84158-447-8}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Haswell-Smith|first=Hamish|year=2004|title=The Scottish Islands|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Canongate|isbn=978-1-84195-454-7|pages=278–80}}
6. ^{{cite web|first=Ewan|last=Davidson|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/466025/index.html|title=Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The (1974)|publisher=BFI|work=Screenonline|accessdate=2016-03-04}}
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