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)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
- Lockerbie bombing (1988)
Around 1969
- The Beatles (1960)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)