1914 in Scotland

Events from the year 1914 in Scotland.

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Thomas McKinnon Wood

• 21 February – Militant suffragetteEthel 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 XImonoplaneCa 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 NavysubmarineU-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 cruiserHMS 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 cruiserHMS 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 cruiserHMS 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 PrivateHenry 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]

• 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)

• 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)

• 16 March – the Usher Hall opens in Edinburgh as a concert hall.
• John MacDougall Hay's novel Gillespie is published.
• Bandmaster Frederick J. Ricketts ('Kenneth J. Alford') composes the "Colonel Bogey March" while serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Fort George.

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