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Events from the year2009 inScotland

• First Minister andKeeper of the Great Seal –Alex Salmond
• Secretary of State for Scotland –Jim Murphy

• Lord Advocate –Elish Angiolini
• Solicitor General for Scotland –Frank Mulholland
• Advocate General for Scotland –Lord Davidson of Glen Clova

• Lord President of the Court of Session andLord Justice General –Lord Hamilton
• Lord Justice Clerk –Lord Gill
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court –Lord McGhie

• 25 January (Burns Night)–30 November (St Andrew's Day) –Homecoming Scotland.

• 13 January – minorearthquake inShetland.^[1]
• 24 January –2009 Buachaille Etive Mòr avalanche: three climbers are killed in an avalanche onBuachaille Etive Mòr in theHighlands. Five others walk away uninjured, whilst another suffers a shoulder injury.^[2]
• 28 January – theScottish Parliament rejects the budget tabled by theScottish National Party administration. ThePresiding Officer casts the deciding vote after the result is originally tied at 64 in favour, 64 against. TheScottish Finance Secretary,John Swinney, says the budget will be put before parliament again as soon as is possible, whilst theFirst Minister,Alex Salmond, reportedly puts the SNP on an 'election footing' in case the budget were to be voted down once more.^[3][4]

• 4 February – the Scottish Parliament approves the minority SNP's administration's budget at the second time of asking. BothLabour and theLiberal Democrats vote for the budget after voting it down the previous time.^[5]

• 30 March – major power cut hits Glasgow and parts of the West of Scotland, causing traffic chaos in most areas.^[6]

• 1 April –Marine Scotland is established.^[7]
• 3 April –Glasgow school closures protest, 2009 begins.
• 5 April –Andy Murray wins the2009 Sony Ericsson Open – Men's Singles in tennis.
• 8 April – Slovakian Marek Harcar is jailed for at least 25 years after being found guilty of raping and murdering Moira Jones in a Glasgow park.^[8]
• 13 April – Scotland win the2009 World Men's Curling Championship in Moncton, Canada.
• 30 April –Beltane.

• 4 May –John Higgins wins the2009 World Snooker Championship.
• 14 May –Tradeston Bridge opens for pedestrians across theRiver Clyde in Glasgow.
• 22 May –Whitelee Wind Farm, the largestwind farm in Europe, officially opens.^[9][10]

• 4 June – the SNP tops the poll in the European Election in Scotland, winning two of Scotland's six MEPs. Labour also win two, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats winning one each.
• 14 June (20:30 BST) – the first human death from the2009 swine flu pandemic in the United Kingdom is confirmed by theScottish Government.^[11]
• 15 June – theCommission on Scottish Devolution, chaired byKenneth Calman, issues its final report, recommending that theScottish Parliament be given greater control over tax and legislation such as setting speed limits.^[12]
• 25–28 June –Royal Highland Show.

• 7 July –Royal NavyQueen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrierHMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) laid down atBAE Systems,Govan;^[13] she will be assembled atRosyth Dockyard.
• 16–19 July –Open Championship,Turnberry (golf course),South Ayrshire.

• 2 August –Catriona Matthew wins the 2009Women's British Open in golf.
• 11 August – archaeologists announce that they have discovered a royal tomb from theearly Bronze Age, atForteviot.^[14]
• 14 August – archaeologists announce that they have discovered a Neolithic temple in theHeart of Neolithic OrkneyWorld Heritage Site.^[15]
• 20 August – the Scottish justice secretaryKenny MacAskill grants release to the convicted Lockerbie bomberAbdelbaset al-Megrahi oncompassionate grounds, stating that Megrahi is in the final stages of terminalprostate cancer.^[16]

• 15 September –Geology of Scotland:Shetland awardedEuropean Geopark status.^[17]

• 27 October – theWest Highland Free Press becomes the UK's onlyemployee-owned newspaper.^[18]

• 16 November –Galloway Forest Park is designated at adark sky park by theInternational Dark-Sky Association.
• 20 November –John Swinney,Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, wins theScottish Politician of the Year Award.^[19]
• 26 November –BrewDog launches a new beer called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, with 32% alcohol, which is claimed to be the strongest beer ever made.^[20]

• 1 December – the firstreshuffle of theScottish Cabinet since theScottish National Party came to power in May 2007.^[21]
• 5–11 December – The2009 European Curling Championships take place inAberdeen.^[22]
• 16 December – Scotland's largest airline,Flyglobespan, goes into administration.^[23]
• 17 December – archaeologists announce that they have foundman-made structures on the sea-bed off the island ofDamsay,Orkney.^[24]
• 20 December –Richie Ramsay wins theSouth African Open (golf), Scotland's first win on theEuropean Tour sinceAlastair Forsyth won theMadeira Island Open in March 2008.^[25]
• 21 December –Fraochy Bay television cartoon series airs.^[26]
• 30 December – three climbers are killed following three largeavalanches in the Scottish mountains.^[27][28]

• 7 January –Alfie Conn Sr., footballer (born 1926)^[29]
• 29 January –John Martyn, singer-songwriter (born 1948)^[30]

• 6 February –Bashir Ahmad, Scottish National Party MSP for Glasgow (born 1940)^[31]
• 17 February –Victor Kiernan, Marxist historian (born 1913 in England)
• 19 February –Anna Watt, variety entertainer (born1924)

• 30 April –Maurice Lindsay, broadcaster, writer and poet (died1918)^[32]

• 7 June –Gordon Lennon, footballer (born 1983)

• 6 July –Jim Reid, folk musician (born 1934)
• 29 July –Paul McGrillen, footballer, by suicide (born1971)

• 23 September –Bill Speirs, general secretary of theScottish Trades Union Congress, and key figure on the left of theScottish Labour Party, and in the campaign forScottish devolution, instrumental in the creation of Scotland United, a member of theScottish Constitutional Convention and a member of the group that drafted the key documentScotland's Parliament, Scotland's Right in 1995 (born 1952)^[33]
• 28 September – Reverend Maxwell Craig, the Extra Chaplain to the Queen^[34]

• 11 October –Abigail McLellan, painter (born 1969)^[35]

• 1 December –Cordelia Oliver, journalist, painter and art critic (born 1923)^[36]

• 17–28 June –Edinburgh International Film Festival.
• September –Emma's Imagination releases her debut single, "Stamp Your Feet", on Glasgow independent label Up Next Records.
• 23 November –Susan Boyle's first album,I Dreamed a Dream becomesAmazon's best-selling album in pre-sales.^[37][38]
• Peter Maxwell Davies composes his string sextetThe Last Island.

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