1902 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1902 Events from the year 1902 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh Law officers Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events 5 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 25 people die and 517 are injured. 29 July – St Lawrence's Church, Dingwall (Roman Catholic) opens. 15 October – The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/2000.htm 2014-09-01 2 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia. 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.Notable Dates in History http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2014-09-01 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm 5 December 2014 Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick. Births 16 January (in China) – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China) 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979)Green Judy LaDuke Jeanne Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's 2009 American Mathematical Soc. 9780821843765 Pioneering Women in American Mathematics p. 186 en 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany) 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980) 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987) 28 October – Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990) 20 December – Jock Cunningham, soldier, mutineer, Republican lieutenant colonel in Spanish civil War (died 1969) Deaths 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831) 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823) 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821) 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869) 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825) The arts First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.Watson, Moray Macleod, Michelle The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language 38 The Classical Association of Scotland founded See also Timeline of Scottish history 1902 in the United Kingdom References Scotland Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Category:1900s in Scotland Scotland