1975 in Scotland
Events from the year 1975 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Wheatley
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay
Events
- January – Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor begins to feed electric power to the National Grid.
- 22 January – Radio Forth begins broadcasting to the Edinburgh area.
- 5 May – the Scottish Daily News begins publication in Glasgow. It is Britain's first worker-controlled, mass-circulation daily, formed as a workers' cooperative by 500 staff made redundant when the Scottish Daily Express closed its printing operations in Scotland and moved to Manchester.
- 16 May – local government in Scotland reorganised under terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973: counties, large burghs and small burghs and existing districts are completely abolished and replaced by a uniform two-tier system of regional and district councils. The districts of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow are accorded city status in the United Kingdom; Elgin and Perth lose this status. County, burgh and amalgamated constabularies are merged into eight regional police forces.
- 11 June – the first North Sea oil is pumped ashore at the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland.
- 24 September – Currie-born climber Dougal Haston and Englishman Doug Scott become the first British people to reach the summit of Mount Everest via the previously unclimbed south-west face.
- 3 November – a petroleum pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth Refinery is formally opened by the Queen.
- 8 November – the Scottish Daily News ceases publication.
- 23 December – Ballachulish Bridge is opened in the West Highlands, replacing a ferry.
- 24 December – 'Great Mull Air Mystery': Peter Gibbs vanishes after taking off from Glenforsa Airfield on a solo night flight; his body is found 4 months later on a hillside.
- December – First production from the Auk oilfield in the North Sea.date unknown
- * Reintroduction of the white-tailed eagle to the Isle of Rùm begins.
- * John Watson's Institution in Edinburgh closes
Births
- 18 May – John Higgins, snooker player
- 23 June – KT Tunstall, born Kate V. Tunstall, rock singer-songwriter
- 7 July – Richard Arkless, politician
- 24 July – Laura Fraser, actress
- 28 September – Kelly Cates, née Dalglish, television sports presenter
- 9 October – Joe McFadden, actor
- 12 November – Katherine Grainger, rower
- 15 December – Ayesha Hazarika, comedian and political commentator
- Zoë Strachan, novelist
Deaths
- 15 January – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Lallans poet
- 2 March – Helen Cruickshank, poet, suffragette and nationalist
- 5 March – George Friel, novelist
- 13 March – Jeannie Robertson, folk singer
- 28 March – Abe Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist
- 3 April – Mary Ure, actress
- 8 June – Douglas Guthrie, otolaryngologist and medical historian
- 21 June – Sir Robert Matthew, modernist architect
- 20 July – Fionn MacColla, novelist
The arts
- John Quigley's historical novel King's Royal is published.