8 January – after a night of stormy weather the Irish Sea ferry European Highlander has run aground on the south-west coast, with passengers remaining on board rather than evacuating under the prevailing conditions.[2]
11 January – 5 people are killed on Uist when their cars are washed from the coast road in a storm.
5 May – UK general election results in Labour winning 41 of Scotland's 59 seats, with the Liberal Democrats winning eleven, the SNP winning six and the Conservatives winning one.[5]
Livingston by-election results in Jim Devine retaining the seat for Labour; though with a reduced majority in the face of a swing of 10.2% to the Scottish National Party.
5 October – three perpetrators of the racially motivated murder of Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald arrive in Scotland to face trial in a one-off extradition agreement negotiated with Pakistan.[9][10]
13 November – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old man from Scotland, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
21 November – Alfred Anderson, one of the last surviving First World War veterans and the oldest man in Scotland, dies aged 109. He is also the last known survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce. There are now only approximately twenty surviving British veterans of the conflict, all aged over 100 years.[11]
