1986 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1986}}
Events from the year 1986 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – George Younger until 11 January; then Malcolm Rifkind
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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.{{cite web|title=Abstracts on Organisations|publisher=CAIN Web Service|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/sorgan.htm|access-date=2015-07-06}}
- 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.{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1986 {{!}} Commonwealth Games Federation |url=https://thecgf.com/games/edinburgh-1986 |website=thecgf.com |access-date=4 December 2021 |language=en |archive-date=7 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407183027/https://thecgf.com/games/edinburgh-1986 |url-status=dead }}
- {{circa|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.{{cite web|title=Speech to Conservative Party Conference|url=http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106498|first=Margaret|last=Thatcher|date=1986-10-10|author-link=Margaret Thatcher|publisher=Margaret Thatcher Foundation|access-date=2013-02-26}}
- 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.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_2538000/2538505.stm|title=1986: Oil workers die in helicopter crash|work=BBC News|access-date=2011-12-08|date=1986-11-06}}
- 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.{{cite news|title=Rev James Nelson|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1495453/Rev-James-Nelson.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2005-08-04|access-date=2020-05-19|location=London}}
- 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{{cite web |title=Glasgow 2014 - Hayley Mulheron Profile |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/badminton/1012972/hayley_mulheron.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116100222/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/badminton/1012972/hayley_mulheron.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 November 2020 |website=results.glasgow2014.com |access-date=14 February 2020}}
- 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.