1976 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1976}}
Events from the year 1976 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross until 8 April; then Bruce Millan
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Ronald King Murray
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John McCluskey, ennobled as Lord McCluskey
= Judiciary =
Events
- 18 January – The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party.{{cite web|url=http://www.scotclans.com/scottish_history/this_day/jan/18.html|title=January 18 in Scottish History|work=ScotClans|access-date=2014-09-09}}
- 6 February – Hunterston B nuclear power station begins generating electricity.
- 7 July – Scottish MP David Steel is elected as new leader of the Liberal Party.
- 14 October – Post Office Telephones take the UK's last manual public telephone exchange out of service on Portree.
- 11 November – Brent oilfield production begins in the East Shetland Basin.
- 15 November – Licensing (Scotland) Bill receives the Royal Assent, paving the way for licensed premises to open an extra hour, until 11 p.m., from 16 December, and for public houses to open on Sundays for the first time from 1977.'[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1976-11-16/debates/fdc84885-b2fa-41b7-bfd1-3ecc52e0d20d/LicensingAct(Implementation) Licensing Act (Implementation), Commons, 16 November 1976]', Hansard.
- 12 November – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.{{cite news|title=The bone detective|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/30/women.gender|access-date=2009-05-13|date=2008-04-30|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|first=Julie|last=Bindel|author-link=Julie Bindel}}
- 13 December — An extra hour of drinking allowed in pubs, until 11pm, from today.
- The Signet Office is merged into the Court of Session.
- Inverkip power station is commissioned.
- Whalsay Golf Club, Britain's most northerly, is founded in Shetland.{{cite web|title=The Club – History|url=http://www.whalsaygolfclub.co.uk/index.php/members/history|publisher=Whalsay Golf Club|access-date=2014-09-09|archive-date=10 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195810/http://www.whalsaygolfclub.co.uk/index.php/members/history|url-status=dead}}
Births
- 13 January – Ross McCall, actor
- 20 January – Kirsty Gallacher, television presenter{{cite web |title=BBC One - Strictly Come Dancing - Kirsty Gallacher |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/tYpV3nQptxp75Ytzsj3HyC/kirsty-gallacher |website=BBC |access-date=18 October 2021}}
- 23 February – Kelly Macdonald, actress
- 23 March – Chris Hoy, Olympic gold medal winning cyclist{{cite web |title=Chris Hoy {{!}} Biography, Medals, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Hoy |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 December 2022 |language=en}}
- 3 June – Gregg McClymont, historian and politician
- 5 June – Jack Ross, footballer and manager
- 20 July – Damian Barr, writer
- 4 August – Jock Zonfrillo, chef (died 2023 in Australia)
- 8 August – Laura Kuenssberg, Italian-born political journalist
- 10 August – Ian Murray, Labour MP for Edinburgh South
- 25 August – Gail McConnell, physicist
- 16 November – Danny Wallace, comedian and broadcast presenter
- Date unknown
- Tom Gauld, comic artist
- Chris Stout, fiddle player
Deaths
- 8 January – Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (born 1891)
- 11 February – Charlie Naughton, actor (born 1886)
- 18 February – William Robb, footballer (born 1895)
- 13 March – Ann Henderson, sculptor (born 1921)
- 28 March – Ian Garrow, army officer (born 1908)
- 22 April – Stanley Cursiter, painter and curator (born 1887)
- 28 May – Oliver Brown, nationalist political activist (born 1903)
- 20 October – Jane Duncan (Elizabeth Jane Cameron), novelist (born 1910)