2002 in Scotland

{{further|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

• Lord Advocate – Lord Boyd of Duncansby
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Elish Angiolini
• Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark

• 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

Image:FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean.jpg]]

• 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.{{cite web|title=Sweeping praise for curling team|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1835151.stm|website=BBC News|access-date=11 January 2018|date=22 February 2002}}
• 14 March – Stirling is granted city status in the United Kingdom by the Queen to mark her Golden Jubilee.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1872739.stm|work=BBC News|title=Stirling elevated to city status|date=14 March 2002}}
• 10 February – the preschool television series Balamory made by BBC Scotland is first broadcast, nationally.
• 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.{{cite web|title=Family victory for lesbian couple: Mixed response to landmark ruling on parental rights|first=Valerie|last=Hannah|date=2002-04-08|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/family-victory-for-lesbian-couple-mixed-response-to-landmark-ruling-on-parental-rights-1.153742|newspaper=The Herald|location=Scotland|access-date=2014-08-26}}
• 29 March – coal mining in Scotland, which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,{{cite web|url=http://www.scan.org.uk/education/coal/index.html|title=Coal Mining in Scotland 1840-1920|publisher=Scan Education|access-date=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.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1899905.stm|title=Grim future for deep coal mine|publisher=BBC|date=29 March 2002}}
• 1 May – Airdrieonians, of the Scottish Football League Division One, go into liquidation with debts of £3million.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/airdrieonians/1957959.stm|work=BBC News|title=End for Airdrie|date=1 May 2002}}
• 7 May – Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils a statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1971243.stm|title=Blair unveils Dewar memorial|date=7 May 2002|work=BBC News|accessdate=12 February 2022}}
• May – the Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen.{{cite web|url=http://www.aberdeen.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/2001/pr886.hti|title=Aberdeen successful in bid to host Scottish Parliament in May 2002|date=2001-09-11|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=2014-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050123021300/http://www.aberdeen.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/2001/pr886.hti|archive-date=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.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/2118528.stm|work=BBC News|title=Airdrie buy Bankies|date=9 July 2002}}
• 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park.{{cite news|title=Scotland's first national park opens|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=2002-07-24|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/24/britishidentity.scotland|access-date=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.
• Millennium Bridge, Glasgow, opens to pedestrians.

• 8 March – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector (born 1919)
• 30 March – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother dies aged 101 at Royal Lodge, Windsor.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30/newsid_2530000/2530899.stm|title=2002: Queen Mother dies |access-date=2009-03-18|date=2002-03-30|work=BBC News}}
• 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and palaeographer (born 1909){{cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |title=Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen |date=27 June 2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2660-1 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=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)

• 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.{{cite web|title=Edinburgh's Makars|url=http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11|work=Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature|publisher=City of Literature Trust|year=2006|access-date=2013-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228030939/http://www.cityofliterature.com/ecol.aspx?sec=3&pid=11|archive-date=28 December 2008|url-status=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.

• 2002 in England
• 2002 in Northern Ireland
• 2002 in Wales

{{Reflist}}

{{Years in Scotland |state=collapsed}}

Scotland

Category:2000s in Scotland

Scotland

Category:Years of the 21st century in Scotland