Events from the year 1995 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Ian Lang until 5 July; then Michael Forsyth
Law officers Lord Advocate – Lord Rodger of Earlsferry; then Donald Mackay Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Dawson; then Donald Mackay; then Paul Cullen
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Hope Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ross Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Philip
Events Early – The Deep-fried Mars bar originates at Haven Chip Bar in Stonehaven. 6 April – 1995 Scottish local elections are held for the 29 new mainland unitary authorities that will replace the Regional and District Councils next year. 7 April – Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson as Robert Roy MacGregor, is released. 18 April – Caledonian MacBrayne Ullapool-Stornoway ferry is launched at Ferguson Shipbuilders' Port Glasgow yard. 24 May – Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson as William Wallace, is released; it goes on to win five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards. 25 May – Perth and Kinross by-election: Roseanna Cunningham wins for the Scottish National Party with a swing of 11.6%. 16 June – FirstBus is formed by merger of Badgerline with GRT Group of Aberdeen. 17 June - Pride March The first Pride march in Scotland gathers on Barony Street in Edinburgh on 17 June. 19 July – The Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which seeks to put into legislation the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, receives royal assent. 17 August – Arran distillery opens. 11 October – Duncan Ferguson, the 23-year-old Everton F.C. striker, receives a three-month prison sentence for assaulting an opponent while playing for Rangers F.C. eighteen months earlier. Ferguson is the first British footballer to be jailed for an on-field offence. 12 October – Boxer James Murray suffers serious head injuries in a fight at a Glasgow hotel, leading to a declaration of brain death on 15 October, sparking calls for boxing to be banned. 16 October – Skye bridge opened. November – The first onshore wind farm in Scotland, Hagshaw Hill in South Lanarkshire, is commissioned. 8 November – Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 passed. 24 November – Duncan Ferguson is released from prison after serving half of his three-month sentence. 30 November – Scottish Constitutional Convention publishes its blueprint for devolution, Scotland's Parliament, Scotland's Right. 30 December – Altnaharra matches the lowest temperature UK Weather Record at −27.2 °C.
The arts Dunedin Consort formed. Andrew O'Hagan's first novel, The Missing, is published. Alan Warner's first novel, Morvern Callar is published; it is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1996.
Births 21 January Chloe Arthur, footballer David McNeil, footballer 22 February – Ryan Christie, footballer 31 March – Fiona Brown, footballer 11 April – Thomas Muirhead, curler 21 April – Thomas Doherty, actor and singer 20 June – Caroline Weir, footballer 14 July – Megan Cunningham, footballer 6 October – Ross Muir, snooker player 1 December – Jenna Fife, footballer 11 December – Abbi Grant, footballer 19 December – Lewis Vaughan, footballer
Deaths 14 January – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (born 1926) February – Robert Stewart, textile designer (born 1924) 19 February – Nicholas Fairbairn, lawyer and Conservative politician (born 1933) 19 April – Neil Paterson, writer and footballer (born 1915) 9 October – Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903) 15 October – James Murray, boxer (born 1969) 24 October – Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister (born 1908)
See also 1995 in Northern Ireland
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