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| 1974 |
| | The SNP achieves a surge in Scottish nationalism, winning eleven seats at Westminster on 30% of the Scottish vote | |
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| 1988 |
| | A terrorist bomb brings down flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland | |
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| 1993 |
| | Scottish author Irvine Welsh publishes his first novel, Trainspotting | |
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| 1996 |
| | The Stone of Scone is returned from Westminster to Scotland, exactly seven centuries after its removal by Edward I | |
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| 1997 |
| | In referenda held by the new Labour government, Scotland votes conclusively for devolution but Wales is lukewarm | |
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| 1999 |
| | The Scottish parliament and the Welsh assembly hold their first elections, both narrowly won by Labour | |
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| 1999 |
| | A Scottish parliament resumes business in Edinburgh after an interval of 292 years | |
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| 2001 |
| | The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan, Al-Megrahi, of responsibility for the Pan-Am Lockerbie bomb | |
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| 2006 |
| | The Scottish National Party lays a charge that peerages are being 'sold' in Britain, provoking a police enquiry and a 'cash for honours' crisis | |
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| 2007 |
| | The Scottish National Party wins Scotland's election, becoming for the first time the party with the widest support in Scotland | |
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