1999 in Scotland

Events from 1999 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II (since 6 February 1952)
• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal - Donald Dewar (from 17 May 1999)

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]
• 6 May - Scottish Parliament election, 1999- The first elections to the new Scottish Parliament.
• 7 May - No party wins overall majority in Scottish Parliament election. The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats agee 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.
• June - Scotland's first Gaelic Medium primary school, Bunsgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu, opens.
• 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.^[2]
• 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.
• 17 November - Scotland fail to qualify for Euro 2000 after a 2-1 aggregate defeat by England in the qualifying playoff round.

See also

• 1999
• 1999 in the United Kingdom

References