Events from the year 1914 in Scotland .
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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
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