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04 October
Death of engineer John Rennie the Elder
08 February
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed
04 December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off
05 May
Construction begins at Sutherland Spaceport
