The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
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Scottish knight William Wallace was executed for treason by being hung, drawn, and quartered by order of King Edward I of England.
Scottish geologist James Hutton publicly read his theory on uniformitarianism for the first time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The first cloned animal from an adult animal cell was announced.
Robert Stewart ascended to the Scottish throne, marking the beginning of the House of Stewart.
Malta became the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy.
