North Sea oil discovered
1969 · Event
Major oil and gas finds off Scotland transform Aberdeen and reshape the economics of Scottish nationalism.
On these timelines: Scotland, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
Around 1969
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Beatles (1960)