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List of events
Events from the year 1914 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
21 February – Militant
suffragette
Ethel Moorhead , imprisoned in Calton Jail, Edinburgh, for attempted fire-raising, becomes the first in Scotland to suffer
force-feeding while on
hunger strike ; four days later she is released on health grounds.
[1]
14 April – A collision at
Burntisland railway station between an express and a shunting goods train following a signalman's error kills two locomotive crew and injures twelve passengers.
[2]
2 May –
Glasgow newspaper The Saturday Post , a predecessor of
The Sunday Post , changes its title to The Sporting Post .
18 June – A railway
bridge collapse at Carrbridge following a torrential thunderstorm kills five people.
July – Militant suffragette
Fanny Parker is arrested while attempting (probably with Ethel Moorhead) to set fire to
Burns Cottage ,
Alloway .
[3]
3 July –
Govanhill Baths in Glasgow inaugurated.
[4]
4 July – A memorial is unveiled at
Hawick to the
Battle of Hornshole (1514).
[1]
10 July – A royal visit to Scotland is interrupted by suffragettes: one attempts to reach the King and Queen's carriage at
Dundee ;
[5] and Rhoda Fleming leaps onto the footboard of the royal car at
Perth ; police protect her from an angry crowd.
[1]
26 July –
Bachelor's Walk massacre : Troops of the
King's Own Scottish Borderers fire on a crowd of nationalist protestors at Bachelors Walk,
Dublin , killing three; a fourth man dies later from bayonet wounds and more than 30 others are injured.
[6]
30 July –
Norwegian aviator
Tryggve Gran makes the first crossing of the
North Sea by aeroplane, flying from
Cruden Bay to
Jæren in
Norway in the
Blériot XI
monoplane Ca Flotte .
August – The British
Royal Navy 's
Grand Fleet is formed in
Scapa Flow .
4 August –
World War I :
Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the
German Empire .
[7]
9 August – World War I: Light cruiser
HMS Birmingham (1913) rams and sinks
Imperial German Navy
submarine
U-15 off
Fair Isle , the first
U-boat claimed by the
Royal Navy .
[7]
28 August –
28 September – World War I: German spy
Carl Hans Lody is operating from Edinburgh.
September – World War I
Revolutionary
socialist teacher
John Maclean holds his first anti-war rally, on
Glasgow Green .
Rumours spread that Russian troops, landed on the east coast of Scotland, have passed on trains through Britain en route to the Western Front.
5 September – World War I:
Scout cruiser
HMS Pathfinder (1904) is sunk by
German submarine U-21 in the
Firth of Forth with loss of all but nine of her crew,
[8] the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive
torpedo fired from a
submarine .
8 September –
Armed merchant cruiser
HMS Oceanic runs aground on the Shaalds o'
Foula and is lost.
14 September – World War I: Scottish soldiers
William Henry Johnston ,
Ross Tollerton and
George Wilson are awarded the
Victoria Cross in separate actions on the
Western Front .
26 September – World War I: the
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division , newly formed as part of
Kitchener's Army , first parades as a unit.
[9]
15 October – World War I:
Protected cruiser
HMS Hawke (1891) is torpedoed by
German submarine U-9 off
Aberdeen , sinking in under ten minutes with the loss of 524 crew and only seventy survivors.
[10]
16 /
17 October – World War I: Scare of submarine attack in
Scapa Flow causes the
Grand Fleet to disperse while the anchorage is secured.
[10]
22 October – World War I: Glaswegian
Private
Henry May , a regular soldier with 1st Battalion, The
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) at La Boutillerie, is awarded the
Victoria Cross for rescuing wounded comrades.
[11]
3 November – Trawler Ivanhoe , requisitioned as an armed patrol vessel, strikes the Black Rock near
Leith while
minelaying and sinks.
[8]
23 November – World War I:
German submarine U-18 is intercepted and forced to
scuttle while attempting to enter
Scapa Flow .
25 November – World War I: sixteen
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players enlist en masse – seven will die in action before the war ends.
St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen , raised to the status of cathedral within the Episcopal Church.
A. & R. Scott introduce the brand name
Scott's Porage Oats .
[12]
Births
1 January –
Alexander Reid , playwright (died
1982 )
13 March –
Kay Tremblay , film actress, living in
Canada (died 2005 in
Stratford, Ontario )
26 May –
Archie Duncan , actor (died 1979)
14 June –
Alexander Buchanan Campbell , architect (died
2007 )
14 June –
Ruthven Todd , poet, artist and novelist (died October 1978 in
Spain )
25 June –
Matthew McDiarmid , literary scholar, essayist, campaigning academic and poet (died 1996)
15 July –
Gavin Maxwell , naturalist and writer (died
1969 )
4 November –
Duncan Macrae , international rugby union player (died
2007 )
20 December –
Robert Colquhoun , painter, printmaker and theatre set designer (died 1962 in
London )
29 December –
Tom Weir , climber, naturalist and broadcaster (died
2006 )
[13]
Richard Scott , general practitioner and academic (died
1983 )
Ann Scott-Moncrieff , author (died 1943)
Deaths
1 March –
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto , soldier and colonial administrator (born 1845 in London)
16 March –
Sir John Murray ,
oceanographer ,
marine biologist and
limnologist (born 1841 in
Canada )
31 March –
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton , writer, journalist, editor, historian and educator (born in
1856 )
26 June –
Edward Calvert , domestic architect (born 1847 in
Brentford )
30 September –
Sir Henry Littlejohn , forensic surgeon (born
1826 )
21 October –
James William Cleland ,
Liberal Party MP for
Glasgow Bridgeton (1906–10) (born
1874 )
19 December –
William Bruce , soldier, posthumous recipient of the
Victoria Cross (born
1890 ; killed in action near
Givenchy )
25 December –
Donald MacKinnon , Celtic scholar (born in
1839 )
The arts
See also
References
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