1. Incumbents
     Law officers    Judiciary  

2. Events

3. Arts and literature

4. Deaths

5. See also

6. References

Events from the year 1999 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Donald Dewar (from 17 May 1999)
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Donald Dewar until 17 May; then John Reid

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Lord Hardie
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Colin Boyd
• Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cullen
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord McGhie

Events

• 7 February – Sunday Herald newspaper is launched.
• 12 February – scientists at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen reinforce warnings that genetically modified food may be damaging to the human body.^[1]
• 31 March – Buchanan Galleries shopping mall opened to the public in Glasgow city centre.
• 6 May – Scottish Parliament general election, 1999: the first elections to the new Scottish Parliament.
• 7 May – no party wins overall majority in the first general election to the Scottish Parliament. The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats agree to form a coalition government, with Donald Dewar as the First Minister of Scotland.
• 12 May – the Scottish Parliament meets in Edinburgh for its first session in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland on the Royal Mile.
• 31 May – the Orkney island of Papa Stronsay is purchased by The Transalpine Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, a traditionalist Catholic religious institute which will establish Golgotha Monastery there.^[2]
• June – Scotland's first Gaelic-medium primary school, Glasgow Gaelic School (Bunsgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu), opens.
• 11 June – fire at Garnock Court (flats), Irvine with one fatality.
• 1 July – formal transfer of powers from Westminster to the new Scottish Parliament.
• 4 August – George Robertson, MP for Hamilton South, appointed as Secretary General of NATO.
• 9 August – Charles Kennedy, MP for Ross, Cromarty and Skye, elected leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK).^[3]
• August – composer James MacMillan in a speech "Scotland's Shame" at the Edinburgh Festival attacks religious bigotry in Scotland.^[4]
• 23 September – Hamilton South by-election results in Labour's Bill Tynan holding the UK parliament seat by 556 votes in the face of a 22.6% swing to the SNP.
• November – Scottish Women's Football League (SWFL) established^[5]
• 17 November – the Scotland national football team fail to qualify for UEFA Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate defeat by England in the qualifying playoff round.
• 2 December – the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' is designated as a World Heritage Site.
• The last Elder of the Glasite Church dies in Edinburgh.

Arts and literature

• 24 May – Soft rock band Travis release their album The Man Who which goes platinum.

Deaths

• 11 January – Naomi Mitchison, novelist (born 1897)
• 30 January – Mick McGahey, Communist miners' leader (born 1925)
• 9 August – Cliff Hanley, writer (born 1922)
• 11 September – Janet Adam Smith, writer and mountaineer (born 1905)
• 1 October – Lena Zavaroni, entertainer (born 1963)

See also

• 1999 in Northern Ireland

References

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