Events from the year 1914 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Thomas McKinnon Wood
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Robert Munro
Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Brash Morison
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Strathclyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy
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. 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 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 July – Govanhill Baths in Glasgow inaugurated. 4 July – A memorial is unveiled at Hawick to the Battle of Hornshole (1514). 10 July – A royal visit to Scotland is interrupted by suffragettes: one attempts to reach the King and Queen's carriage at Dundee; and Rhoda Fleming leaps onto the footboard of the royal car at Perth; police protect her from an angry crowd. 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. 9 August – World War I: Light cruiser rams and sinks Imperial German Navy submarine U-15 off Fair Isle, the first U-boat claimed by the Royal Navy. 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 is sunk by German submarine U-21 in the Firth of Forth with loss of all but nine of her crew, 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. 15 October – World War I: Protected cruiser is torpedoed by German submarine U-9 off Aberdeen, sinking in under ten minutes with the loss of 524 crew and only seventy survivors. 16/17 October – World War I: Scare of submarine attack in Scapa Flow causes the Grand Fleet to disperse while the anchorage is secured. 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. 3 November – Trawler Ivanhoe, requisitioned as an armed patrol vessel, strikes the Black Rock near Leith while minelaying and sinks. 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.