1999 in Scotland
1999 in Scotland |
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See also |
1998-99 in Scottish football |
1999-00 in Scottish football |
1999 in Scottish television |
Events from 1999 in Scotland
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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 Scottish Parliament general election. 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.
- 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]
- 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 - 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.
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