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List of events
Events from the year 1999 in Scotland
Incumbents
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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 –
1999 Scottish Parliament election : the first elections to the new
Scottish Parliament .
7 May – no party wins overall majority in the
first general election to the
Scottish Parliament . 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 .
17 May –
Donald Dewar is officially sworn in as the
First Minister of Scotland .
[2]
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.
[3]
June – Scotland's first
Gaelic -medium primary school,
Glasgow Gaelic School (Bunsgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu ), opens.
11 June –
fire at Garnock Court (flats),
Irvine with one fatality.
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) .
[4]
August – composer
James MacMillan in a speech "Scotland's Shame" at the Edinburgh Festival attacks religious bigotry in Scotland.
[5]
13 September –
Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999 becomes the first Act of the Scottish Parliament to be passed, adding public safety to the grounds for not discharging certain patients detained under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, thus closing a legal loophole.
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.
November –
Scottish Women's Football League (SWFL) established
[6]
3 November – the Lanarkshire-born actor
Ian Bannen is killed in a car accident near
Loch Ness .
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.
30 November –
Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh officially opened.
[7]
2 December – the '
Heart of Neolithic Orkney ' is designated as a
World Heritage Site .
The last Elder of the
Glasite Church dies in Edinburgh.
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