• Source: 1986 in Scotland

      • Events from the year 1986 in Scotland.


      Incumbents



      Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – George Younger until 11 January; then Malcolm Rifkind


      = Law officers

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      Lord Advocate – Lord Cameron of Lochbroom
      Solicitor General for Scotland – Peter Fraser


      = Judiciary

      =
      Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
      Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ross
      Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Elliott


      Events


      24 March – Edinburgh–Bathgate line reopened to rail passengers.
      26 March – Kenny Dalglish becomes the first Scotland national football team player to be capped 100 times at senior level.
      April – Scottish Unionist Party established.
      8 May – 1986 Scottish regional elections, result in the Conservatives losing control of the two Regional Councils where they previously held a majority: Grampian and Tayside.
      24 July–2 August – Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh.
      c. August – the millionth council house to be sold under the right to buy scheme is sold to its tenants in Scotland, seven years after the scheme was launched in the United Kingdom.
      9 September – MS Norsea launched at Govan, the largest passenger ship built on the Clyde (31785 GT) and last large passenger ship built in the U.K.
      26 October – bus deregulation in Great Britain: First Magic Bus (Stagecoach) operation, in Glasgow.
      6 November – 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash: 45 oil workers killed when a Chinook helicopter carrying them from the Brent oilfield crashes in Shetland.
      December – the St Kilda islands become the first World Heritage Site in Scotland.
      James Nelson, a confessed and convicted matricide, is ordained a minister of the Church of Scotland.
      Highland Wildlife Park taken over by Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.


      Births


      3 January – Allan Walker, footballer
      13 February – Jamie Murray, tennis player
      16 April – Paul di Resta, racing driver
      27 April – Hayley Mulheron, netball player
      12 May – Luke Douglas, Australian-Scottish rugby league player
      26 May – Fern Brady, stand-up comedian
      5 June – Charlotte Dobson, racing sailor
      18 June – Richard Madden, actor
      17 September – Sophie (Xeon), born Samuel Long, singer-songwriter and record producer (died 2021 in Greece)
      13 November – Kevin Bridges, stand-up comedian
      11 December – Kris Doolan, footballer


      Deaths


      21 September – Bill Simpson, actor (born 1931)


      The arts


      28 March – BBC Scotland screens Bill Bryden's The Holy City, a retelling of the Easter story set in Glasgow.
      Robert Alan Jamieson's novel Thin Wealth and Shetland dialect poetry collection Shoormal are published.
      Gilded Balloon comedy venue in Edinburgh first opens.


      See also


      1986 in England
      1986 in Northern Ireland
      1986 in Wales


      References

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