1977 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Bruce Millan

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Ronald King Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Lord McCluskey

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Wheatley
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

  Events

• 3 May – 1977 Scottish District Council elections held, with Labour making significant losses.
• 17 May – Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
• 18 May – Queen Elizabeth II visits Cumbernauld and Stirling.
• 19 May – Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
• 23–27 May – Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
• 27 May – Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
• 4 June – Scotland's 2–1 victory over England at Wembley is followed by a pitch invasion during which sections of pitch and crossbars are removed by fans.
• 10 August – Kenny Dalglish, 26-year-old Scotland striker, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £440,000 transfer from Glasgow Celtic to Liverpool.
• September
• * last manufacture of coal gas on the U.K. mainland at Muirkirk.
• * first part of St Fergus Gas Terminal in Aberdeenshire opens.
• 10 October – Scotland beat Wales 2–0 at Anfield to qualify for the 1978 World Cup finals.
• 15–16 October – "World's End Murders" of two 17-year-old girls in Edinburgh.
• 14 November – Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for West Lothian, asks what becomes known as the West Lothian question.
• Late? – Buchanan Street bus station opens in Glasgow.

  Births

• 19 March – Scott Wilson, footballer
• 30 March – Hugo Rifkind, journalist
• 18 April – Jonathan Rowson, chess grandmaster
• 12 May – Graeme Dott, snooker player
• 30 July – Derek Mackay, Member of Scottish Parliament and Government minister
• September – Jenni Fagan, novelist and poet
• 22 November – Neil McCallum, cricketer
• 28 November – Gavin Rae, international footballer
• 30 November – Rae Hendrie, television actress

  Deaths

• 6 October – Molly Urquhart, actress
• 30 November – Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, soldier, governor and chief scout
• 27 December – James Marshall, international footballer

  The arts

• 19 August – Art punk band Skids, founded by Stuart Adamson, plays its first gig, in Dunfermline.
• First St Magnus Festival of the arts held on Orkney, organised by local residents including English composer Peter Maxwell Davies and Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown.