1. Incumbents
     Law officers    Judiciary  

2. Events

3. Deaths

4. The arts

5. See also

6. References

Events from the year 2002 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Jack McConnell (since 22 November 2001)
• Secretary of State for Scotland – Helen Liddell

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Lord Boyd of Duncansby
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Elish Angiolini
• Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark

Judiciary

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

Events

• February – 2002 Winter Olympics: the gold medal in women's curling is won by an all-Scottish team representing Great Britain in Salt Lake City skipped by Rhona Martin.^[1]
• 14 March – Stirling is granted city status in the United Kingdom by the Queen to mark her Golden Jubilee.^[2]
• 10 February – the preschool television series Balamory made by BBC Scotland is first broadcast, nationally.
• 14 March – appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against a conviction for murder in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie is rejected and the Scottish Court in the Netherlands is decommissioned.
• 19 March – a lesbian couple are granted parental rights over their children by an Edinburgh court.^[3]
• 29 March – coal mining in Scotland, which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,^[4] comes to an end with the closure of Longannet coal mine in Fife after its owners go into liquidation following flooding, putting more than 500 people out of work.^[5]
• 1 May – Airdrieonians, of the Scottish Football League Division One, go into liquidation with debts of £3million.^[6]
• May – the Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen.^[7]
• 24 May – Falkirk Wheel boat lift opens in Scotland, also marking reopening of the Union Canal for leisure traffic.
• 28 May – the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 receives royal assent.
• 9 July – Clydebank F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division become defunct after a takeover by the owners of the new Airdrie United club, who take their place in the Scottish league.^[8]
• 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park.^[9]
• 30 July – 2002 Glasgow floods result from heavy rain overnight.
• 1 August – the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, that bans traditional fox hunting and hare coursing, comes into effect.
• Millennium Bridge, Glasgow, opens to pedestrians.

Deaths

• 8 March – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector (born 1919)
• 30 March – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother dies aged 101 at Royal Lodge, Windsor.^[10]
• 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and palaeographer (born 1909)
• 5 July – Jannette Anderson, academic (born 1927)
• 19 September – Rosalind Mitchison, historian (born 1919)
• October – William Dysart, actor (born 1929)
• 9 November – Neil MacCallum, political activist and poet (born 1954)
• 10 December – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (born 1925)

The arts

• The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted, with poet Stewart Conn as first incumbent.^[11]
• The indie rock band Franz Ferdinand is formed in Glasgow.
• David Greig's play Outlying Islands is premiered at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
• Peter Maxwell Davies composes his Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle.

See also

• 2002 in Northern Ireland

References

• 147th Street (Manhattan)
• 147th Street (Sibley Boulevard) station
• 147th Street station
• 147th Street Station (Cedar Busway station)
• 1,4,7-triazaheptane
• 1480 AM
• 1480 Aunus
• 1480 in Ireland
• 1480 in poetry
• 1480s in poetry
• 14812 Rosario
• 14814 Gurij
• 14815 Rutberg
• 14818 Mindeli
• 14819 Nikolaylaverov
• 1481 in architecture
• 1481 in poetry
• 1481 Rhodes earthquake
• 1481 Tubingia
• 1481 Tübingia
• 14820 Aizuyaichi
• 14821 Motaeno
• 14826 Nicollier
• 14827 Hypnos
• 14829 Povalyaeva