Events
- 12 March - 1984/5 Miner's Strike: Polmaise Colliery is the first mine in Scotland to witness a walkout of its workers.
- 16 April - Culmination of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars with the murder by arson of six members of the Doyle family.
- 3 May - 1984/5 Miner's Strike: Nearly 300 miners are arrested outside Ravenscraig in clashes with police as they try to stop lorries laden with coal entering
- 14 June - Elections to the European Parliament result in Labour gaining three seats from the Conservatives to win 5 of the 8 in Scotland, with the Conservatives reduced to two and the SNP retaining the one they previously held.
- 30 July - The Polmont rail accident occurred at Polmont, near Falkirk, when an express train from Edinburgh to Glasgow, travelling at high speed, struck a cow which had wandered onto the track near Polmont station, derailing several carriages and resulting in 13 deaths and 61 injuries.
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