2010 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Prime Minister – Gordon Brown. David Cameron.
• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Alex Salmond
• Secretary of State – Jim Murphy, Danny Alexander, Michael Moore.

  Law officers

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

  Judiciary

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

  Events

January

• 5 January – Scotland as well as most of the UK is deluged by some of the heaviest snow in thirty years, causing widespread transport problems and school closures.

  April

• 20 April – To correspond with the first ever televised leader's debates in the UK, leaders of the main political parties in Scotland including the Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Conservative Party, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party will hold a televised debate, broadcast on ITV1.

  May

• 4 May – An ash cloud emitted from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes most Scottish and Northern European airports to be closed until further notice.
• 6 May – United Kingdom general election: with no Scottish seats changing hands, Labour maintains a stronghold in Scotland holding 41 out of 59 Scottish Westminster seats. The Liberal Democrats have 11 seats, the Scottish National Party 6 seats and the Conservative Party maintain their single Scottish seat
• 15 May –
• *Newly appointed Prime Minister David Cameron travels to Scotland for talks with First Minister Alex Salmond. Both later agree that the talks were "productive" and it is agreed that Cameron would address the Scottish Parliament once every year and in return, MSP's could address Commons' committees in Westminster.
• *Dundee United F.C. win the Scottish Cup with a 3–0 victory over Ross County at Hampden Park.
• 29 May – Following the resignation of the Chief Secretary of the Treasury David Laws, the incumbent Liberal Democrat Scottish Secretary, Danny Alexander, assumes his position and the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Michael Moore, becomes the new Scottish secretary.

  June

• 8 June – Eight people injured after a train derails in Argyll.
• 10 June – A man dies after being shot outside his home in Lanarkshire.

  July

• 2 July – Supporters of Stirling Albion F.C. become the first in the UK to take over ownership of their club.

  September

• 16 September – Pope Benedict XVI begins his four-day UK visit, starting in Scotland.

  November

• 15 November – City of Glasgow College officially launched by merger of Central College, Glasgow Metropolitan College and Glasgow College of Nautical Studies.
• 18 November – Hugh Henry MSP wins Scottish Politician of the Year award.

  December

• 11 December – Scottish Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson resigns amid criticism of his handling of transport chaos brought on by recent heavy snow in Scotland.
• 12 December – Keith Brown is appointed as Scottish Transport Minister following yesterday's resignation of Stewart Stevenson.
• 13 December – Major supermarkets and online stores stop taking orders in Scotland in the run up to Christmas, because of a backlog of deliveries caused by the adverse weather conditions.
• 16 December – The Scottish Government rules out re-introducing tuition fees for Scottish university students, but students from other parts of the United Kingdom attending university in Scotland may face fees of £6,000.
• 23 December – HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan: former MSP Tommy Sheridan is convicted of perjury following a twelve-week trial; his wife is acquitted.

  Deaths

• 2 January – David R. Ross, historian
• 7 January – Alex Parker, football player and manager
• 19 January – Bill McLaren, rugby union commentator
• 25 January – Bill Ritchie, cartoonist
• 28 January – Alistair Hulett, acoustic folk singer
• 13 February – Jock Ferguson, Australian politician
• 22 February – Bobby Smith, footballer
• 28 February – Adam Blacklaw, footballer
• 4 March – Ronnie Fraser, agricultural journalist and Liberal politician
• 11 March – Willie MacFarlane, football player and manager
• 12 March – Hugh Robertson, footballer
• 18 March – William Wolfe, chairman of Scottish National Party
• 22 March – James W. Black, pharmacologist, winner of 1988 Nobel prize in medicine
• 28 March – David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, member of the House of Lords
• 1 April – Morag Beaton, operatic soprano
• 8 April – James Quinn, Jesuit priest, theologian and hymnodist
• 9 April – Kenneth McKellar, tenor
• 19 April – Tom Fleming, actor
• 21 April – Sammy Baird, footballer
• 1 June – John Hagart, football player and manager
• 21 June – Tam White, musician and actor
• 10 August – Jimmy Reid, trade union activist
• 16 August – Bobby Thomson, American baseball player
• 17 August
• * Bill Millin, British Army soldier and piper during WWII
• * Edwin Morgan, poet
• 3 September – Annie Turnbull, supercentenarian, oldest person in U.K. at date of death
• 28 October – Gerard Kelly, actor
• 25 December – Iain Noble, banker and Gaelic activist
• 30 December – Jenny Wood-Allen, world record marathon runner

  The arts and literature

• 19 September – Emma's Imagination wins the television talent show Must be the Music.
• James Robertson's novel And the Land Lay Still is published.