1984 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1984 in Scotland.

Incumbents

12 March – 1984/5 Miner's Strike: Polmaise Colliery is the first mine in Scotland to witness a walkout of its workers.^[1]
16 April – Culmination of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars with the murder by arson of six members of the Doyle family.
3 May – 1984/5 miner's strike: Nearly 300 miners are arrested outside Ravenscraig in clashes with police as they try to stop lorries laden with coal entering.^[2]
14 June – Elections to the European Parliament result in Labour gaining three seats from the Conservatives to win 5 of the 8 seats in Scotland, with the Conservatives reduced to two and the SNP retaining the one they previously held.^[3]
30 July – Polmont rail accident at Polmont, near Falkirk, when an express train from Edinburgh to Glasgow, travelling at high speed, strikes a cow on the track near Polmont station, derailing several carriages and resulting in thirteen deaths and 61 injuries.^[4]
8 August – Official opening of Kylesku Bridge, replacing a ferry.
August – Hutton oilfield production begins in the East Shetland Basin.
Kellas cat identified as a hybrid.^[5]
Undated
- Puppet Animation Scotland organization is founded.^[6]

17 January – Calvin Harris, born Adam Richard Wiles, pop singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ
27 February – Catriona Forrest, field hockey player
12 March – Neil Fachie, para-cyclist^[7]
8 May – Martin Compston, screen actor and footballer
5 September – Alison Bell, field hockey player^[8]
8 September – Finlay Wild, fell runner
25 October – Adam MacKenzie, field hockey defender
30 November – Alan Hutton, footballer

28 March – Jimmy McGowan, footballer (born 1924)
15 April – Alexander Trocchi, writer (born 1925)
6 September – Donny MacLeod, TV presenter (born 1932; heart attack)
11 October – Benno Schotz, sculptor (born 1891 in Germany)
date unknown
- Jean Bain of Crathie, Aberdeenshire, last speaker of Deeside Gaelic (born Jean McDonald, 1890)^[9]
- George Campbell Hay, poet (born 1915)

16 February – Iain Banks' first novel The Wasp Factory is published.
Robert Alan Jamieson's novel Soor Hearts is published.
James Kelman's first (published) novel The Busconductor Hines is published in Edinburgh.
Scottish Poetry Library established.

http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-miners-extended-interview/?redirect=no Two miners from Polmaise Colliery reflect on strike of 1984
http://www.wishawpress.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-news-features/2009/05/13/day-of-300-arrests-that-shook-industrial-world-76495-23606363/2/ 1984 Miner's Strike saw 300 arrests in one day at Ravenscraig
http://www.alba.org.uk/eecelect/eecscot.html European Parliamentary Elections
Book: Department of Transport. Major A.G.B. King. 1985. Railway Accident: Report on the Derailment that occurred on 30th July 1984 near Polmont in the Scottish Region, British Railways. HMSO. 0-11-550685-3.
Web site: Kellas Cats, Scotching the Myth. Bowers. Aron. Scottish Big Cat Trust. 2018-01-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150914184415/http://scotcats.online.fr/abc/identification/kellascataron.html. 2015-09-14. live.
Web site: Homegrown visual theatre artists to light up new-look Manipulate Festival at Summerhall . 2022-07-08 . www.scotsman.com . en.
Web site: Neil Fachie . Team Scotland . 9 September 2022.
Web site: Glasgow 2014 - Alison Bell Profile . results.glasgow2014.com . 1 April 2020.
Adam. Watson. Adam Watson (scientist). R. D.. Clement. Aberdeenshire Gaelic. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness. 52. 1983. 373–404.