2002 in Scotland
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Events from the year 2002 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
2002 in: The UK • England • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 2001–02 • 2002–03
2002 in Scottish television
Timeline of Scottish history
2002 in: The UK • England • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 2001–02 • 2002–03
2002 in Scottish television
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Incumbents
- First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Jack McConnell
- Secretary of State for Scotland – Helen Liddell
Law officers
Judiciary
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 Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Golden Jubilee.[2]
- 10 February – The hit preschool television series Balamory made by BBC Scotland is first broadcast.
- 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 £3,000,000.[6]
- 7 May – Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils a statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre.[7]
- May – The Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park.[10]
- 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. A similar ban would take place in England and Wales under the Hunting Act 2004, which took effect from 18 February 2005.
- 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.[11]
- 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and palaeographer (born 1909)[12]
- 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
- 24 September – soap opera River City is first broadcast on BBC One Scotland.
- The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted, with poet Stewart Conn as first incumbent.[13]
- 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.