2002 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 2002 Events from the year 2002 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Jack McConnell Secretary of State for Scotland – Helen Liddell Law officers Lord Advocate – Lord Boyd of Duncansby Solicitor General for Scotland – Elish Angiolini Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Cullen of Whitekirk Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Gill Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord McGhie Events thumb|Falkirk Wheel 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.Sweeping praise for curling team https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1835151.stm BBC News 11 January 2018 22 February 2002 14 March – Stirling is granted city status in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Golden Jubilee.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1872739.stm BBC News Stirling elevated to city status 14 March 2002 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.Family victory for lesbian couple: Mixed response to landmark ruling on parental rights Valerie Hannah 2002-04-08 http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/family-victory-for-lesbian-couple-mixed-response-to-landmark-ruling-on-parental-rights-1.153742 The Herald Scotland 2014-08-26 29 March – Coal mining in Scotland, which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,http://www.scan.org.uk/education/coal/index.html Coal Mining in Scotland 1840-1920 Scan Education 2014-04-02 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1899905.stm Grim future for deep coal mine BBC 29 March 2002 1 May – Airdrieonians, of the Scottish Football League Division One, go into liquidation with debts of £3,000,000.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/airdrieonians/1957959.stm BBC News End for Airdrie 1 May 2002 7 May – Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils a statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1971243.stm Blair unveils Dewar memorial 7 May 2002 BBC News 12 February 2022 May – The Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen.http://www.aberdeen.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/2001/pr886.hti Aberdeen successful in bid to host Scottish Parliament in May 2002 2001-09-11 University of Aberdeen 2014-05-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20050123021300/http://www.aberdeen.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/2001/pr886.hti 2005-01-23 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/scotland/2118528.stm BBC News Airdrie buy Bankies 9 July 2002 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park.Scotland's first national park opens The Guardian London 2002-07-24 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/24/britishidentity.scotland 2014-04-21 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/newsid_2530000/2530899.stm 2002: Queen Mother dies 2009-03-18 2002-03-30 BBC News 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and palaeographer (born 1909)Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen 27 June 2007 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-2660-1 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 en 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.Edinburgh's Makars http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11 Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature City of Literature Trust 2006 2013-02-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20081228030939/http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11 28 December 2008 dead 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. See also 2002 in England 2002 in Northern Ireland 2002 in Wales References collapsed Scotland Category:2000s in Scotland Scotland Category:Years of the 21st century in Scotland