1902 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1902 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1902 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1901â02 ⢠1902â03
Timeline of Scottish history
1902 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1901â02 ⢠1902â03
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 5 April â The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.[1] 25 people die and 517 are injured.
- 29 July â St Lawrence's Church, Dingwall (Roman Catholic) opens.
- 15 October â The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.[2]
- 2 November â The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.
- 10 November â Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.[3]
- Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.
Births
- 16 January (in China) â Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China)
- 26 March â Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979)[4]
- 27 March â Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany)
- 24 July â Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980)
- 19 August â Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987)
- 28 October â Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990)
Deaths
- 20 February â David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831)
- 29 June â John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823)
- 16 July â Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821)
- 28 August â George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869)
- 29 September â William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825)
The arts
- First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.[5]
- The Classical Association of Scotland founded