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Events from the year 2020 in Scotland
January
- 29 January – MSPs vote 64–54 to back calls for a second Scottish independence referendum.[1]
February
- 6 February – Derek Mackay resigns as Finance Secretary hours before delivering his budget following reports that he messaged a sixteen-year-old boy on social media over a period of several months.[2]
- 14 February – Jackson Carlaw is elected as leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.[3]
- 17 February – Kate Forbes is appointed as Finance Secretary, the first woman to hold the post.[4]
March
- 1 March – COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland: Authorities confirm the first case of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland, the index case of coronavirus being a traveller having returned from Italy.[5]
- 13 March – COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland: Authorities confirm the first death from COVID-19 in Scotland.[6]
April
- 3 April – The results of the 2020 Scottish Labour deputy leadership election are announced, in which Jackie Baillie is elected as the deputy leader of Scottish Labour.[7][8]
June
- 21 June – The 'Peebles Hoard', comprising Bronze Age horse harness, a sword in its scabbard and other artefacts including a "rattle pendant", is discovered near Peebles in the Borders by a metal detectorist.[9]
- 26 June – Glasgow hotel stabbings.[10]
August
- 4 August – The Scottish Qualifications Authority issues moderated grades to school pupils who have not been able to take examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[11] on 10 August, Nicola Sturgeon publicly accepts that her government "did not get it right" over this procedure.[12]
- 5 August – Following the resignation on 30 July of Jackson Carlaw as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, he is succeeded by Douglas Ross MP.[13]
- 11 August – Ruth Davidson is appointed Leader of the Scottish Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament by Douglas Ross, becoming the Leader of the Opposition again.[14]
- 12 August – Stonehaven derailment: A passenger train derails after striking a landslip near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, with 3 deaths.[15]
October
- 15 October – Kintore railway station reopens.[16]
November
- 25 November – Scotland becomes the first country in the world to make it a legal duty for period products to be available to anyone for free after the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill is approved.[17]
January
- 6 January – Danny Masterton, footballer (Ayr United, Clyde) (born 1954)[18]
- 12 January – Jackie Brown, boxer, Commonwealth Games gold medallist (1958), British and Commonwealth flyweight champion (1962–1963) (born 1935)[19]
- 15 January – Bobby Brown, Hall of Fame footballer (Rangers, Queen's Park) and manager (national team) (born 1923)[20]
February
- 6 February – Jimmy Moran, footballer (Norwich City, Northampton Town, Workington) (born 1935)[21]
March
- 9 March – George Strachan, cricketer (national team) (born 1932)[22]
- 11 March – Dave Souter, footballer (Clyde, Dundee) (born 1940)[23]
- 12 March – Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, peer (born 1955)[24]
- 30 March – Alex Forsyth, footballer (Darlington) (born 1928)[25]
April
- 5 April – Dougie Morgan, rugby union player (Stewart's Melville, British and Irish Lions, national team) (born 1947)[26]
- 14 April – Ron Wylie, footballer and manager (Notts County, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion) (born 1933)[27]
- 23 April – John Murphy, footballer (Ayr United) (born 1942)[28]
May
- 1 May – Derek Ogg, lawyer (born 1954)[29]
- 2 May – John Ogilvie, footballer (Hibernian, Leicester City, Mansfield Town), COVID-19 (born 1928)[30]
July
- 9 July – Johnny Beattie, actor (River City) and comedian (Scotch & Wry, Rab C. Nesbitt) (born 1926)[31]
- 13 July – Pat Quinn, footballer (Motherwell, national team) and manager (East Fife) (born 1936)[32]
- 15 July – Maurice Roëves, actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Escape to Victory, Judge Dredd) (born 1937)[33]
- 17 July – Alex Dawson, footballer (Manchester United, Preston North End, Brighton & Hove Albion) (born 1940)[34]
- 21 July – Hugh McLaughlin, footballer (St Mirren, Third Lanark, Queen of the South) (born 1945)[35]
- 24 July – David Hagen, footballer (Falkirk, Clyde, Peterhead), motor neuron disease (born 1973)[36]
August
- 4 August – Willie Hunter, footballer (Motherwell, national team) and manager (Queen of the South) (born 1940)[37]
September
- 7 September – Logie Bruce Lockhart, rugby union player (national team), schoolmaster, writer and journalist (born 1921)[38]
- 20 September – Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight, herald, Lord Lyon King of Arms of Scotland (1981–2001) (born 1938)[39]
November
- 22 November – Hamish MacInnes, mountaineer (born 1930)[40]
December
- 21 December – Sandy Grant Gordon, whisky distiller (born 1931)[41]
- 26 December – Jim McLean, footballer and manager (Dundee United) (born 1937)[42]
- 11 February – Douglas Stuart's debut novel Shuggie Bain, a story of growing up in 1980s Glasgow, is first published in the United States; it wins this year's Booker Prize.[43]
- October – Two of the five winners of the UK 2020 ArtFund Museum of the Year Award are Aberdeen Art Gallery and Gairloch Museum.[44]
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